Re: the tangled web of org-cite, selectrum, completing-read, ...

[Bruce D'Arcus]

Eric - since you're using selectrum, any reason why not just use
oc-bibtex-actions?

Performance should be better, and it has a template system like
bibtex-completion.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 1:18 PM Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> TL;DR: how can I format the suggestions listed by selectrum when I ask
> to insert a citation with org-cite-insert?
>
> Longer version: I use selectrum a my completion engine together with
> marginalia.  This works very well for most selections I wish to
> make.  However, for org-cite, the display has the author list truncated
> (to 25 characters; screenshot image attached, assuming it doesn't get
> removed by the mailing list server) and the search only appears to
> consider the truncated text.  The result is that if I am looking for a
> paper by an author (say Kitchin ;-)) who is not one of the first few
> authors on a particular publication, I won't be able to find that
> particular publication (sorry John).
>
> I have no idea which bit of the tool chain does the
> formatting/truncation or whether I can make the search ignore the
> truncated information.  I hope somebody has some suggestions.  I started
> looking at bibtex-completions, which does mention org-cite (at least in
> the most recent version), but none of the configuration suggestions
> seems to have any effect.
>
> Any pointers welcome!
>
> Thank you,
> eric
>
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