[TxMt] LaTeX: Bibliography-Autocompletion stopped to work?

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Sep 24, 2006, at 14:30, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

>
> On Sep 24, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>> Yes, that's correct; BibDesk reads any of the above (thanks to  
>> btparse!), but saves using {} as delimiters.
>
> Hm, perhaps we could change things so as to use btparse as well.  
> We'll see.

It's available here <http://sourceforge.net/projects/btool>.  Have  
fun :).

>> In that case, just grabbing citekeys is pretty straightforward.  My  
>> bib files are fairly large, so I'm not sure how well it scales to  
>> read the file every time (if that's what you do?).
>
> Yes I just search recursively starting either from the current file  
> or TM_LATEX_MASTER, and descending into all \include'd and \input'd  
> files, and searching in there for all \bibliography{} entries, and  
> then parsing all those. It looks for the keyword in citekey, author/ 
> editor and title fields.

That sounds pretty good.  One of the limitations of my input manager  
hack is that it only searches the current NSTextView for \label  
completions, since it has no way to get the master document.

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>> That's partially correct; it uses AppleScript to get the list of  
>> completions, so BibDesk has to be running, but it searches all open  
>> documents.  There are also some features that help searching (you  
>> can search for "Bü" instead of "B{\"u} for author name completion).
>
> Ah that last one is probably tricky for our parser to do correctly.  
> Of course, if this is basically inherited from btparse, then it just  
> might be doable.

Nope, it's some moderately hairy Obj-C code in BibDesk proper <https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bibdesk/trunk/bibdesk/BDSKConverter.m 
 >.

>> We actually rewrote NSTextView's completion window/controller from  
>> scratch for BibDesk, and that's what I was trying to wedge into  
>> TextMate (to avoid any use of the mouse).  Since there's no  
>> published API for TextMate's main textview, that may be impossible  
>> for me.
>
> That would indeed be really sweet. I think we might have a better  
> chance at it in TextMate 2.0, where I think a lot of these internals  
> might be more attainable. As it is, the best we can do really is the  
> current behavior of esc, which using only citekeys I'm afraid  
> (because it can't alter the word that is being completed, it can  
> only complete it).

Yeah, I think it's something Allan would have to do, if he's  
interested (and likes popup completion).  It seems like it would be  
extensible so that bundles could provide the possible completions as  
they do now.

thanks,
Adam