[OS X TeX] BibDesk autocompletion issue

[Michael S. Hanson]

On Jan 4, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> On Jan 4, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Michael S. Hanson wrote:
>
>>     I am having difficulty with autocompletion in BibDesk 1.21:   
>> when I press [F5] to complete a citation in TeXShop (version 2.03  
>> on OS X 10.4.2), I only see the first matching citation in  
>> the .bib database, not the whole list of possible matches that  
>> earlier versions (1.18?) of BibDesk would show.  Completing  
>> internal references in the .tex file with [F5] works fine.
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm not seeing this behavior with BibDesk 1.2.1. I assume you have  
> the proper .bib file open in BibDesk or that BibDesk opens that  
> file automatically when it starts up.

     Yes, I do (and did at the time I sent the above message).   
Upgrading to the most recently nightly build at <http:// 
bibdesk.demokratia.org/beta/BibDesk-20060103.dmg> did not remedy the  
problem, even after re-installing the plugin.  Downgrading to version  
1.19 did fix the problem -- and I did not re-install the plugin from  
this version.  Re-installing 1.21 returned to the "broken" behavior.   
Note that renaming the preference files between re-installs also had  
no effect.  Any other suggestions for getting version 1.21 to work  
correctly would be appreciated.

     Incidentally, the "Open Recent >" menu item also did not work  
for me in BibDesk 1.21: no files were ever listed.  It did work  
correctly in the 2006-Jan-03 nightly beta and in version 1.19, the  
latter of which I am using for now.


                                         -- Mike


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