On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 00:33, Matthew Brush <mbr...@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@lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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