<html><body><div>JT,</div><div><br></div><div>Yeah, length of citekey is the key here :-). It's a character-based limit, and the code is moderately complicated in order to deal with different types of cite commands (e.g., natbib); it's also a bit fragile, since TeX isn't particularly pleasant to parse. Dick could bump the limit up for the next version, if someone remembers to remind him...</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div><div><br>On Feb 20, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen <jushen@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div dir="ltr">Adam and Herb,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the reply and confirmation. I actually did not cite too many citations -- my cite keys are somewhat descriptive, like icecreamvanila:2005, icecreamcherrygarcia:2007, and so on; it only takes a few to fill up the range. I will use Herb's work-around for now.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>JT</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Adam R. Maxwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amaxwell@mac.com" data-mce-href="mailto:amaxwell@mac.com">amaxwell@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div>Hi JT,</div><div><br></div><div>I haven't looked at the code in years, but I'm fairly sure that the BibDesk plugin would only look back within a certain range to see if you're in a \cite context, to avoid scanning backwards through an entire document. Computers might be fast enough now that the limit is obsolete, but you'd have to recompile TeXShop to change it.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Feb 20, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen <<a href="mailto:jushen@gmail.com" data-mce-href="mailto:jushen@gmail.com">jushen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Not sure if this is a problem of TeXShop or BibDesk.<div><br></div><div>I encountered a situation just now for a first time: I was writing a document using TeXShop, and on some topic I had to cite quite a few references. What I found out was that after quite a few cite keys (exact number depends on how long the total cite keys is), the autocomplete keybinding no longer be valid. Example,</div><div><br></div><div>Numerous studies show that ice cream is good to your health~\cite{cite1, cite2, cite3, cite4, ..., citeN (autocomplete does not work)}</div><div><br></div><div>Is this a known bug/feature?</div><div><br></div><div>JT</div></div></div></div><div><span> <br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" data-mce-href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a> <br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/" data-mce-href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a> <br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/" data-mce-href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a> <br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" data-mce-href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a> <br>List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" data-mce-href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a> <br> </span></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br> <br> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br> TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" data-mce-href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a> <br> List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/" data-mce-href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a> <br> List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/" data-mce-href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a> <br> TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" data-mce-href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a> <br> List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" data-mce-href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a> <br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content"> <br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" data-mce-href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a> <br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/" data-mce-href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a> <br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/" data-mce-href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a> <br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" data-mce-href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a> <br>List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" data-mce-href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a> <br> </span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>