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

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

Hi,

On 3/2/06, Fabian Braennstroem <f.b...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Srinath,
>
> > 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 ;-)
>

:) So I can give you what you want on one condition. There is almost no
documentation for this feature written yet. This means that I am not
ready to make a release yet. But I commited to CVS already, so if you
wish, update to the latest CVS. (See the download section of
vim-latex.sf.net for instructions). Then when you press <F9> after
\cite, you will see a completely different screen. Something like:

-----------------------------------%<-----------------------------------
Masters [avadhanula:ms:01]
TI "The Design and fabrication of a dynamically tuned {MFI} thorax"
AU S. Avadhanula
IN In University of California, Berkeley, 2001

Conference [avadhanula:icra:02]
TI "Dynamically tuned design of the {MFI} thorax"
AU S. Avadhanula and R. J. Wood and D. Campolo and R. S. Fearing
IN In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2002

Conference [avadhanula:iros:03]
TI "Lift Force improvements for the Micromechanical Flying Insect"
AU S. Avadhanula and R. J. Wood and E. Steltz and J. Yan and R. S. Fearing
IN In IEE Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2003
-----------------------------------%<-----------------------------------

Note that syntax highlighting will hide some of these. Once in this
screen, you can use <n>, <p> to move back and forth. Press <enter> once
you are on the required entry. To filter, press <f>. This allows you to
specify a "filter". A filter is basically a string like "a ellington".
This filters out all results where the author field matches the string
ellington. (You can ofcourse use partial words). Press <a> to show all
results. You can also sort by pressing <s>.

Note that this whole functionality although algorithmically stable is
still a little raw around the edges. Unfortunately, I cannot take a look
at this for at least 20 days or so because I am _really_ busy with
something else.

Oh! You will need Vim with python support builtin to use this. Doing
this in Vim-script would have doubled my work.

Let me know how it goes.

HTH
Srinath