I have used org-ref in the past and I liked it, now I am trying to get it working again. In a way this has become easier:
* I can install org-ref from Melpa now, instead of tangling from the org-ref.org file in the past * with a fairly simple setup (omitting the details for now, but can give them of course), and the default (setq org-ref-completion-library 'org-ref-helm-bibtex) I get to chose my papers/books to cite in a quite comfortable way when I press C-c ] But what does not currently work for me (and what used to work): getting a choice of citation: cite/citep/citeauthor/nocite/whatever. Basically I want * a list to choose from in the first place * preferrably have my own list of choices, allowing me to focus on the ones that I really do use (not get distracted by other more exotic ones), and that what I can also switch on a per document basis between bitex/natbib/biblatex and the available options there I know that org-ref is relying on reftex in this regard, and when I just use plain reftex, or even (require 'org-ref-reftex), I get to chose cite/citep/citeauthor etc., but I loose the comfort of the org-ref-helm-bibtex input method. Ideally - I guess I am dreaming - I would want to rely on ivy (or helm) for narrowing down my choice of cite/citep/citeauthor etc - rather than type some retex keystroke. I got some help from this list in past, how to configure my reftex list of choices, to use biblatex entries: parencite etc. - thanks again, and can go through these old emails of mine of course, but I am not sure in how far these things still apply, given that org-ref has changed quite a lot in between. Also at the time, I was at least presented some menu when I typed C-u C-c ] - so it was just a matter of modifying that menu, now I only get to see "pattern:" in the minibuffer. Thanks, Andreas