Re: the tangled web of org-cite, selectrum, completing-read, ...

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> TL;DR: how can I format the suggestions listed by selectrum when I ask
> to insert a citation with org-cite-insert?
>
> Longer version: I use selectrum a my completion engine together with
> marginalia.  This works very well for most selections I wish to
> make.  However, for org-cite, the display has the author list truncated
> (to 25 characters; screenshot image attached, assuming it doesn't get
> removed by the mailing list server)

You can set `org-cite-basic-author-column-end' to a higher value.

> and the search only appears to
> consider the truncated text.  The result is that if I am looking for a
> paper by an author (say Kitchin ;-)) who is not one of the first few
> authors on a particular publication, I won't be able to find that
> particular publication (sorry John).
>
> I have no idea which bit of the tool chain does the
> formatting/truncation or whether I can make the search ignore the
> truncated information.

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 hoped it would also be possible to set it to something like `org-ref'
or some such, but it doesn't seem it will happen.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou