Once you have generated the tags file, if you begin typing a citekey and
then invoke "Complete" (either from the Edit menu or with the keyboard
shortcut), you should see a list of keys that match. This seems to work
fine for me. The list of completions should also appear automatically
assuming you have "Show text completions" set to "After a delay in typing"
in the Editing pane of the Preferences.
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 7:08:04 AM UTC-7, Adrian Manea wrote:
>
> I already tried that and it's not working. I also used the maketags
> command for bbedit and it did create a tags file (which is good and
> correct), but I don't get autocompletions or suggestions... The only thing
> I can do is write a (part of a) citekey, select it then go Find in
> Reference, which takes me to the .bib file.
>
> But I want normal completions and suggestions, in a dropdown menu.
>
> What is there to be done?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 4:15:47 PM UTC+3, Will P. wrote:
>>
>> You can use ctags to generate a tags file from which BBEdit will suggest
>> completions. You can add the following lines to your ~/.ctags file so that
>> it will recognize the .bib entries.
>>
>> --langdef=bib
>> --langmap=bib:.bib
>> --regex-bib=/^@[A-Za-z]+\{([^,]*)/\1/b,bib/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 7:19:34 AM UTC-7, Adrian Manea wrote:
>>>
>>> Yet another basic question which I hope would help me replace Sublime
>>> with BBEdit:
>>>
>>> I've made a full BibTeX .bib file which contains all my references, that
>>> I include in any LaTeX file that I write and I simply cite from there. Now,
>>> as there are hundreds of entries and most of the citekeys were generated
>>> automatically by BibDesk, I have no reason to remember them. Sublime (or
>>> even Textmate and Atom) search in the .bib file for completions. Say I have
>>> a book by Johnson and its cite key is *jh16*. If I write *\cite{*, it
>>> starts suggesting as completions, showing me the full list of bib entries,
>>> wherefrom I can search either "Johnson" or jh (if I remember).
>>>
>>> Long story short: if I include a .bib file as reference in a LaTeX file,
>>> can BBEdit search through it and help me find the reference I want to cite?
>>> There are workarounds involving other apps, but I simply want the list
>>> display as other text editors provide, in BBEdit. Can it be done?
>>>
>>> In Sublime I even made it work with MMD files, citing as *<jh16>* and
>>> again I had the option to view all the entries.
>>>
>>> Thank you, once again.
>>>
>>
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