[OS X TeX] Bibdesk + autocompletion

[Claus Gerhardt]

Due to Herb's hint with the arrow keys my wish for repositioning of  
the completion window is not so urgent anymore, and I certainly  
understand Adam's reluctance to rewrite Apple's autocompletion code.  
In fact I wasn't aware that autocompletion is a feature of the OS.

Claus


On Jan 8, 2006, at 17:43, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Jan 8, 2006, at 07:28, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>>
>>> Using Bibdesk's autocompletion feature in TexShop works fine  
>>> though there are two improvements I would like to suggest:
>>>
>>> - When the line where the citation should be inserted is near the  
>>> bottom of the screen the little poup window with the suggestions  
>>> can only partially be seen and the scroll arrows are hidden. It  
>>> would be better, if the position of the popup window would depend  
>>> on the relative position of the cursor with respect to the  
>>> screen. In fact it wouldn't hurt, if the default position would  
>>> be at the top of the source file window all the way down to the  
>>> bottom of the screen.
>>>
>>> - Having a large screen I would prefer a larger popup window.  
>>> Maybe the two dimensions can be user defined as well as the  
>>> position of the top left corner (close but not identical to the  
>>> top left corner of the screen/source file window) or (my  
>>> preferred choice) the top right corner (close but not identical  
>>> to the top right corner of the screen/source file window).
>
> Both of these are really out of my control, without completely  
> rewriting Apple's autocomplete mechanism and replacing it using  
> some nasty hacks.  I don't want to do that, since loading my code  
> into someone else's program is a risky proposition at best, and  
> right now it's limited to swizzling a couple of methods.
>
>> If the open window is near the bottom of the screen and there are  
>> just enough items brought up in the list so the end of the list  
>> (~5 items) is out of view there still are no scroll arrows or  
>> scroll bar. I can still scroll using the arrow keys and see the  
>> item in the substitution display so it isn't as though I can't get  
>> to the items.
>
> Apple says this is a known bug with their completion window, so  
> hopefully they fix it.  If it bothers anyone else, file a bug  
> report at http://bugreport.apple.com/ and vote for your favorite bug.
>
>> Now here's a bigger one! It would be neat if the first time you  
>> use the substitution it would search for a \bibliography command  
>> and open that .bib file in BibDesk. That would save me the time of  
>> setting that as the default for BibDesk or opening that .bib file  
>> in BibDesk before starting the editing.
>
> I thought about that at one point, for finding \labels in \included  
> files, but there's no way to get the present working directory from  
> a text view, so it would break unless you used an absolute path.
>
>> If there are folks out there not using the neat citation  
>> substitution available with BibDesk they should try it! Very Neat!
>
> Thanks :).  By the way, it works with any Cocoa text editor  
> (TextEdit, Xcode, OmniOutliner) as well as the Cocoa TeX IDEs.
>
> Adam
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