[OS X TeX] autocomplete for references

[Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX]

> On Jan 24, 2024, at 10:57 AM, Nicolae Garleanu <nbgarleanu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
> I had never used BibDesk, so just tried it now. The F5 trick does not work for me (I just get some continuation suggestion as if from a dictionary), I am guessing that there may be a setting I can modify. (All I did was to open, from BibDesk, the .bib file. I am not even sure whether TS and BD “know to work together.") BibDesk does make it easy to see the cite keys, though, so it’s already an improvement. 
> 
> Nicolae

Howdy,

I open up tugboat.bib (part of TeX Live as installed by MacTeX) in BibDesk and then put it in the background by opening TeXShop and the source document. I then type \ci and press Esc (which uses TeXShop's Command Completion) which puts \cite{|•|} in the document where |•| is a selected `mark' (a bullet character). I then type, e.g. Beeb (there are quite a few references that have Beeb as the starting characters for the citation ID) and press F5 to get

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I then scroll through that window and select the ID I want

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and press Return to get 

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Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs2 at mac.com


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