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

[Matthew Brush]

On 2019-07-12 12:14 a.m., Mirco Schönfeld wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 09:06, Mirco Schönfeld <twlyy29 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> The parser is now part of Ctags:
> https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/pull/2137
> 

Good job!

The rest of the changes look pretty straightforward. I guess it's just a 
matter of copying the updated version of the Ctags parser back into 
PR#2212 and checking it all still works.

Regards,
Matthew Brush