Bruce D'Arcus

Only thing is, if one is updating an existing affix, one wouldn't want to add the spaces.

Yeah; I kind of think that's a bug in org. WDYT?

Notes, for whoever gets to looking at this more closely. Right now, `citar-display-transform-functions` strips the braces from names before `citar-shorten-names` sees them. So that would need refactoring. Also, two requirements:...

> This part seems simple, we can just change the order of two functions is the `citar-display-transform-functions`, that way `citar-clean-string` will run after `citar-shorten-names`. So then that would mean implementing...

Update on: joost just updated parsebib to version 4, which includes this enhancement. https://github.com/joostkremers/parsebib/commit/83a77ea7e51f78093b1a0f1eb51615ec9295829d That solves #535, but am not sure yet how it will impact this.

And another small package from him, that extracts useful functionality from org-ref (and I guess org-bib-mode too) and recasts it. https://github.com/rougier/pdf-drop-mode

Now that you've merged citar cache support, @andras-simonyi, any thoughts on this? I was thinking I could remove the `oc-basic-activate` processor, or maybe have a defcustom control it with an...

Yes.

Cool. If you do, any thoughts on what that might mean for the questions I raise in the OP? Clearly one option is simply to remove this activate processor entirely,...

> OTOH, providing nice previews of cites and bibliography entries on hover is definitely doable reliably. Where do you think that belongs? In `oc-basic-activate`? In `org-cite-csl-activate`? If the latter, maybe...