On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 09:06, Mirco Schönfeld wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 00:33, Matthew Brush 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
Best
Mirco
>
>
>>
>> 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
>>
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