changing bibtex-completion-bibliography on a per-document basis

[ramos]

Sometimes, specially when working collaboratively in a paper, it is useful to have the .bib file of the current document (that sometimes is a local file and not your bib database) added to the bibtex-completion-bibliography.

[bdarcus]

I never use that feature, but know others do.

I take it you use this in latex?

I know org-cite will also support local bibs.

@ilupin any input?

[bdarcus]

I didn't see this was a discussion thread, so created an issue for it.

#150

[ilupin]

A buffer can have a local bibtex-completion-bibliography by M-x add-file/dir-local-variable.

However, it seems bibtex-actions has a global bibtex-actions--candidates-cache which prevents bibtex-actions-* commands getting the latest candidates. You have to refresh the cache with C-u M-x bibtex-action-*.

[bdarcus]

@ramos can you let us know if this works?

If yeah there's a bit of a long story for why this doesn't auto-update the cache the same as ivy-bibtex and helm-bibtex, which I can go into ...

[bdarcus]

Here's the wiki section on this, which I just updated with a watchexec config example that should work.

https://github.com/bdarcus/bibtex-actions/wiki/Configuration#proactive-reloading-of-library