Re: [Vim-latex-devel] search for bibtex entry by regexp

[Srinath A. <sri...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 1/25/06, Fabian Braennstroem <f.b...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I am a happy user of vim-latex, but I am missing a feature
> like searching for bibtex-entry by an regular expression.
> As far as I understand the manual, <F9> is looking just for
> corresponding keys and e.g. not for any word in the title.
>
> I would like to know, if anybody has a work-around for
> searching the keys by regexp in vim or maybe an external
> script?
>

I can see that this will definitely be very useful. It will take quite
a bit of extra code to get right though, so it might be a little while
before its implemented. I am working on it (slowly) in my spare time,
but I do not know how long this might take. The thing is that
vim-latex does not parse any of the bibtex files, but instead just
:grep's the pattern '@\w+' in all the bibtex files found. To do
something like this while accounting for the fact that there could be
multiple bibtex files will be a little hard.

Srinath