The cool thing about embark-act in this context is it provides actions both in the minibuffer and in the buffer at point (in this case, when on a citation).
So it's like merging ivy-actions and a hydra.
Nicolas & Bruce,
thank you for the suggestions.
> You can set `org-cite-basic-author-column-end' to a higher value.
This alone made no difference but ...
>From Bruce:
> Eric - since you're using selectrum, any reason why not just use
> oc-bibtex-actions?
>From Nicolas:
> You are using the `basic' back-end for insertion. You may want to use
> something else by setting `org-cite-insert-processor' to an appropriate
> value, e.g., `oc-bibtex-actions'.
I didn't know about oc-bibtex-actions; now I do! So I did this, which
did not work immediately due to some errors; in particular,
=parsebib-parse= did not exist as I had an old version installed.
For the record, in the end, I needed to do the following:
1. set =org-cite-basic-author-column= to a larger number
2. install =embark=
3. update and load =parsebib=
4. load =oc-bibtex-actions=
5. set =org-cite-insert-processor= to ='oc-bibtex-actions=
Now =org-cite-insert= works like a charm! I had been planning on trying
out embark in due course; now I have no excuse to play with it sooner
than expected.
Thank you both.
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