Something is wrong; your library is not initialized

[myshevchuk]

I've been experiencing the Something is wrong; your library is not initialized. error with Bibtex-actions since a week or two. And the Embark Bibtex-actions commands do not appear upon embark-act in the completion buffer, so only the default action is possible with bibtex-actions-open-entry, which takes me to the BibTeX entry, which is something I rarely want to actually do.

Not sure if it's worth opening a bug report because I have a feeling it's Doom-related.

[bdarcus]

I saw that today too. And I do know there's a doom embark bug that I think is currently fixed in a PR for that module, but not yet merged. I'll explore over the weekend if I have time.

[bdarcus]

@myshevchuk In the spirit of not opening an issue that may not be needed ....

In working on related issues, I've gone down a rabbit hole, which touches on ORB.

#281

Basically what I'm doing there is changing the way bibtex-actions works, so caching is decoupled from formatting.

So on that branch, bibtex-actions-select-refs now returns more structured data, rather than a simple list of keys.

ELISP> (bibtex-actions-select-keys)
(("agnew2003"
  ("title" . "From Megalopolis to Global City-Region?")
  ("date" . "2003")
  ("author" . "Agnew, John")
  ("=type=" . "article")
  ("=key=" . "agnew2003"))
 ("huck1972"
  ("title" . "The Orders")
  ("date" . "1972")
  ("author" . "Huck, Susan L.M.")
  ("=type=" . "article")
  ("=key=" . "huck1972")))

But I earlier added bibtex-actions-file-open-note-function with the idea one could specify orb-edit-note there.

That function only takes a key as input, and so has to get that data from somewhere else; notably I guess the bibtex-completion cache (here I had a lookup function that was causing this problem that looked in the bibtex-actions caches via bibtex-actions--get-candidates).

I guess I'm wondering: do you think it's feasible to add an optional entry parameter on orb-edit-note for such structured data, so a user could still use that function here without getting an error?

E.g.:

(defun orb-edit-note (citekey &optional _entry)

[myshevchuk]

@bdarcus Yes, it's absolutely possible. It's also possible for ORB to use the provided entry instead of looking it up. Please issue a feature request for record.