Titus von der Malsburg

> In the way bibtex-completion is designed, everything is centered around these actions, since it has been heavily influenced by Helm and Ivy. I'm sure that the infrastructure in bibtex-completion...

> but the functions are already in bibtex-completion; right (here's the open-pdf one)? These functions only perform actions on entries when you've already selected an entry. So they do not...

@minad, this makes sense, although I have to confess that I don't understand the benefit of this UI compared to Helm and Ivy. In helm-bitbex you can apply an action...

> elevating them from the function status to the status of a command. Ah, I understand this proposal better now and do see the appeal. However, I think there are...

No updates. I use BibLaTeX as well but with year/month/day fields and it's working without problems. We could create an ad-hoc fix, but if we want to do something about...

> Edit: already supported :-) Oh, right. I forgot that we had already fixed that in 2017. :) What else needs to be done specifically to address this issue, e.g....

> Library display and such will use date, but reference formatting will not. Good point. That's something that we should fix. (The current issue is more general in scope I...

Hm, any idea why biblatex is using a different field for this? We added a fix for the date field which biblatex uses instead of year, but the code for...

> Another issue is this: for the thesis reference type, BibTeX uses phdthesis and mastersthesis to differentiate between the two, while BibLaTeX just makes do with thesis with phd and...

Thanks, @ledohod. Learned something.