[Geany-Devel] Parsing of Bibtex: Show entries in sidebar

[Matthew Brush]

On 2019-07-09 8:03 a.m., Mirco Schönfeld wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I would like to introduce myself by proposing a new feature for Geany.
> 

Welcome and nice work!

> When dealing with large bibliography files with lots of Bibtex items I was
> missing an overview of the entries in the sidebar of the editor. Recently,
> I got so annoyed of scrolling around in my files that I decided to do
> something.
> 
> The result I'd like to propose is a ctags parser which is a modified
> version of the tex-parser already present. So far, the new bibtex parser
> parses the entry types listed here:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX#Entry_types It extracts and aggregates
> their identifiers.
> I modified some of the other source files so that the identifiers are now
> listed in the sidebar of the editor.
> 
> If you would like to have a look, please see the branch in my git-fork:
> https://github.com/TwlyY29/geany/tree/bibtex-parser
> I will be happy to create a pull request there if you are interested.
> 

The only obvious thing I can see that may block a PR being merged is 
that - since Ctags has started being maintained again - it would be nice 
to upstream[0] the parser there as well. There's currently an effort 
underway to get our Ctags fork in sync with upstream.

Other than that, it looks good and I don't see any reason a PR wouldn't 
be merged.

Regards,
Matthew Brush

[0]: https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags