I've just recalled a limitation of CRM while testing: the separator must
not be part of the completion candidate strings. "," and ";" are common
in the authors field, other punctuations may appear in article names,
too. Perhaps that's reason CRM wasn't used by oc-basic.el in the first
place?
Daanturo
On Mar 15 2025, at 8:01 pm, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote:
> Daan Ro <daant...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> How does \cites have anything to do with interactive selection of
> >> multiple citations at once?
> >
> > An analogy, especially when exporting. Single selection of a citation
> > -> \cite, multiple selections -> \cites.
>
> This is a strange analogy. It is extremely common to cite multiple
> references via \cite{ref1, ref2, ...}.
>
> >> That's what I am leaning to - modifying oc-basic.el rather than oc.el
> >> itself.
> >
> > Thank you, I think the CRM approach is even simpler than the current
> > prompt-building one. But do we keep the latter?
>
> Yes, of course. Not keeping it would be a breaking change.
> Instead, we should make the completion function customizeable.
>
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