[Vim-latex-devel] Re: new dir for bibliography?

[Luc H. <her...@fr...>]

Hello,
* On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:12:18AM +0200, Mikolaj Machowski <mi...@wp...> wrote:
> I have got request to make possible looking for bibliography in other
> directory than directory of edited file.
> 
> The best solution is to use grep but it needs such combination:
> 
> 		elseif exists("s:type") && s:type =~ 'cite'
> 			let grep_prg = &grepprg
> 			set grepprg=grep\ -Hrn\ --include='*.bib'\ $*\ /dev/null
> 			exe 'silent! grep! "@.*{'.s:prefix.'" '.s:search_directory 

BTW, the use of quotes or double quotes may cause a problem with
&shellquote and &shellxquote.

Anyway, I have tried to set &grepprg by hand, but still, I'm not able to
use /usr/bin/grep (with your parameters) from my win32-vim + cygwin-bash
as shell. Actually, I think I have never been able to do so.
 [ grepprg == grep\ -Hrn\ --include='*.bib'\ $*  (± /dev/null)
 [ :grep '@.*{' /cygdrive/c/localtexmf/bibtex
 [ -> E303: Can not open the .swp file for 
 [    "/cygdrive/c/localtexmf/bibtex/ASTORIA/astoria.bib", retrieval
 [    impossible ... or something like that.
 [ with:
 [ shellquote = 
 [ shellxquote="
 [ shell      =c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
 [ shellredir =>%s 2>&1
 [ shellpipe  = 2>&1| tee
 [ shellslash = 1

The same command from bash works very well, and don't require I propose
/dev/null as the last argument.
 

> [...]
> 			call <SID>Tex_c_window_setup()

Where is this function defined ?

> With changing value of &grepprg. Alas, I don't know how to make it
> cross-platform. grep is easy to configure (GNU grep compatible grep tool
> as requirement and variable in texrc) but what about /dev/null?
> Without that lS doesn't work on terminal. Maybe something like that
> (example line):
> 
> exe "set grepprg=".g:Tex_grepprg."\ -Hrn\ --include='*.bbl'\ $*".s:devnull

If the grep program is "findstr", ie the default win32-vim (called from
the file-explorer or $COMSPEC), I doubt that -Hrn or --include will be
supported.
Some of its various useful options are:
    /n -> print line numbers
    /S -> recursion
    /R -> use regular expressions
    /M -> only the filename of the matching files
    /D:r,p -> search in a list of directories delimited by semi-comma.
           [it seems there is a little error in the doc at this point]


> And at the beginning:
> if has("unix") || has("mac_unix") || has("cygwin")

Personnally, I'd rather test &sh =~'sh'. I found it more accurate than
has('cygwin').
BTW, I have developped a little plugin aimed at easying the development
of portable plugins -- I still have the documentation to finish and some
tests to conduct. So far it seems quite functional.[1] 

> How such combination would work on other than Linux systems?

Impossible to make it work on my system (cygwin-bash + win32-vim). :-(
I don't know if it is due to an error of configuration on my side or
anything else.

[1] http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/ressources/system_utils.tar.gz
    html version of the documentation at:
    http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/ressources/vimfiles/doc/system_utils.html
-- 
Luc Hermitte
http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/