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

[Fabian B. <f.b...@gm...>]

Hi Srinath,

* On 03 Feb 2006 * Srinath Avadhanula wrote:

> 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.

little bit late, but as you see, I can wait ... but not too
long ;-)

Greetings!
Fabian
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