[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][313920] bibtex should complete on .bib and .bst files, not just .aux

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bash-completion-Bugs item #313920, was changed at 2012-12-04 18:22 by Igor Murzov
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody (None)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: bibtex should complete on .bib and .bst files, not just .aux 
Distribution: Gentoo
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: 2.0
Status: None
Original bug number: 


Initial Comment:
Anonymous message posted by mhodak at ncsu.edu

Currently, bibtex only completes on .aux files, ignoring all other extensions. In fact, bibtex also processes .bib and .bst files. 

Here a part of Wikipedia bibtex entry:

In the words of the program's author: "Here's how BibTeX works. It takes as input

    (a) an .aux file produced by LaTeX on an earlier run;
    (b) a .bst file (the style file), which specifies the general reference-list style and specifies how to format individual entries, and which is written by a style designer [..] in a special-purpose language [..], and
    (c) .bib file(s) constituting a database of all reference-list entries the user might ever hope to use.

Therefore, bibtex should accept .bib and .bst extensions in addition to .aux it uses now.


Thanks for taking care of this.


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>Comment By: Igor Murzov (garik-guest)
Date: 2012-12-04 18:22

Message:
Are you sure?

Indeed, bibtex does take as input .bst and .bib files, but they are specified in the .tex source files by the  \bibliography and \bibliographystyle commands. Only .aux file is specified on a command line.

$ bibtex -help
Usage: bibtex [OPTION]... AUXFILE[.aux]

$ bibtex -version
BibTeX 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.4)
kpathsea version 3.5.4


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