[Vim-latex-cvs] Deign of a label/bibtex helper

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

[Changed the subject]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:16:44PM -0800, Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
> > Hey Mikolaj,
> > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> > > >   TODO: Should we write code to make such typos get handled elegantly?
> > >
> > > IMO no. Better would be SDK with question, suggestions etc.
> > SDK?
>
> Source development kit :)

:) But I suggest that we leave any such thing out of the core
latex-suite itself. Latex-suite should contain stuff which the end user
of latex will find useful. The lay person will not be writing package
files (although we would like to encourage such behavior :), so any code
which is geared for package writers is bloat for the average user...

In any case, splitting with the help seems like a good idea.

>
> I was thinking about SetUpEnvironmentsPromtp from envmacros.vim. I am
> trying to do helper with labels and bibtex entries. Labels are quite
> easy but I don't know how to to this with many files. Using latextags is
> not perfect because it stores only \label{this} without context. In one
> file you can use g/re/p which gives whole line and sometimes context.
>
Well, as you say, \labels{} should not be a problem, because they are
identified uniquely by being a tag... I dont really completeley
understand the problems you are having, so I cant be more helpful...

I suggest that you take a leaf out of Bram's book and do
	:help design-documented
(Benji suggested reading this). It has an interesting idea. Do the
documentation first. First nail down the "specs" of the functionality.
Write a short blurb (or even a long one), about how you expect the user
to use this, how the thing will perform internally (so we can iron out
any design issues) etc... I must admit that I havent done this myself
yet. But I was hoping to do it henceforth... :)

Anyway, is this for the new citation/label browser thing I was
mentioning recently? If it is a new feature, then I think we should
delay its inclusion into the main branch until we get another stable
release out the door...

Srinath