The cool thing about embark-act in this context is it provides actions both
in the minibuffer and in the buffer at point (in this case, when on a
citation).

So it's like merging ivy-actions and a hydra.


On Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 3:54 PM Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Nicolas & Bruce,
>
> thank you for the suggestions.
>
> > You can set `org-cite-basic-author-column-end' to a higher value.
>
> This alone made no difference but ...
>
> From Bruce:
> > Eric - since you're using selectrum, any reason why not just use
> > oc-bibtex-actions?
>
> From Nicolas:
> > You are using the `basic' back-end for insertion. You may want to use
> > something else by setting `org-cite-insert-processor' to an appropriate
> > value, e.g., `oc-bibtex-actions'.
>
> I didn't know about oc-bibtex-actions; now I do!  So I did this, which
> did not work immediately due to some errors; in particular,
> =parsebib-parse= did not exist as I had an old version installed.
>
> For the record, in the end, I needed to do the following:
>
>   1. set =org-cite-basic-author-column= to a larger number
>   2. install =embark=
>   3. update and load =parsebib=
>   4. load =oc-bibtex-actions=
>   5. set =org-cite-insert-processor= to ='oc-bibtex-actions=
>
> Now =org-cite-insert= works like a charm!  I had been planning on trying
> out embark in due course; now I have no excuse to play with it sooner
> than expected.
>
> Thank you both.
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