[TxMt] New LaTeX Bundle + Master File + Completion

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Aug 12, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Brad Miller wrote:
>
> One thing I wish we could improve for citations would be to make  
> the completion command use the BIBINPUTS variable.  I keep all my  
> bib files together in a single directory since I tend to reuse them  
> for lots of different papers.  cite_scan/parse_bibfile assumes that  
> the bib files are in the same directory as the master file.  Unless  
> you specify *a* file with TM_LATEX_BIB.

IIRC (haven't looked at them in a while) the commands use kpsewhich  
to decide at which locations to look for bib files. So I suppose the  
issue is the familiar issue that ruby scripts don't for the most part  
inherit shell environment variables. So we can probably solve this in  
a way similar to how we do it for the LaTeX command, by actually  
calling the script from within a shell script, to force TM to go  
through its process of sourcing the relevant init files. The problem  
with this however is that, IIRC, Allan was thinking of dropping  
sourcing of shell init files for commands in general, and not just  
for those with a shebang line.

So, if you define BIBINPUTS from within TM, the completion commands  
don't respect it?

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College