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

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

Hi Srinath,

* On 02 Mar 2006 * Srinath Avadhanula wrote:

> 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>.

Nice!

> 
> 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.

I can wait.

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

Until now, I did not know, that you can use python for
scripting. Can you recommend any pages on the web with some
vim/python introductions?

> 
> Let me know how it goes.

As soon as I am able to get access, I will let you know. It
seems that the server is down!?

Greetings!
Fabian