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

[Mirco Schönfeld]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 00:33, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:

> 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!
>
Thanks :-)


> > 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.
>

Ok. I couldn't exactly figure out your plans in this regard. That's why I
thought integrating it directly into geany would be the pragmatic way to
go. But I'll see if I can get it to work with the Ctags framework as well.


>
> Other than that, it looks good and I don't see any reason a PR wouldn't
> be merged.
>
I'll create the pull request then ;-)

Best
Mirco


>
> Regards,
> Matthew Brush
>
> [0]: https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags
>
> _______________________________________________
> Devel mailing list
> Devel at lists.geany.org
> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.geany.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20190710/52d85aeb/attachment.html>