Feature request: Open the associated file more powerfully about helm-bibtex HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi, thanks for this suggestion. The trouble is, people have BibTeX keys like the following:

• NameEtAl2014
• NameEtAl2014XYZ

where the first is a journal article and the second a presentation at XYZ conference. If we search for files with NameEtAl2014 in their name, both items match. See #40 for a related problem.

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Thanks for your reply. You're right, it is indeed a problem. Then how about provide a option and let the user himself to decide how to define the search string for the associated file with regular expression?

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let the user himself to decide how to define the search string

It's possible, but it smells a little of feature creep. I don't see what we would gain.

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Hi.
I want to add a small comment on this feature request. For instance, in my case, I have the following naming scheme:
bibtex-key0.pdf, bibtex-key1.pdf, etc. in order to support for instance supplementary materials. About 95% of my references have only one file associated. For the moment, I simply redefined helm-bibtex-find-pdf as

(defun helm-bibtex-find-pdf (key)
  "Searches in all directories in `helm-bibtex-library-path' for
a PDF whose name is KEY + \".pdf\".  Returns the first matching PDF."
  (car (-filter 'f-exists?
                (--map (f-join it (s-concat key "0.pdf"))
                       (-flatten (list helm-bibtex-library-path))))))

which is not very clean.
Maybe you can make a quick note in the README to state that the naming convention used by helm-bibtex is bibtex-key.pdf, but one can hack helm-bibtex-find-pdf in order to have a finer control ?

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Yes, now that we have `helm-bibtex-find-pdf' it's much easier to accommodate special preferences and I will add a note about that. However, why don't you use a naming scheme where the main article is BibTeXkey.pdf and the supplemental PDFs BibTeXkey1.pdf and so forth. This way you don't need to tweak the code.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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BTW, I just noticed that the (car (-filter ... can be simplified to (-first ....

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Ok, done. I think it's now sufficiently easy for users to change the naming scheme and we can close this issue. Thanks everyone.

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