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Search and manage bibliographies in Emacs
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What's the differences between helm-bibtex and company-reftex? #378

Closed hongyi-zhao closed 3 years ago

hongyi-zhao commented 3 years ago

I noticed the company-reftex package which is a RefTeX backends for company-mode. But it seems that helm-bibtex also has the similar feature.

What's the differences between helm-bibtex and company-reftex in this sense?

Regards, HY

tmalsburg commented 3 years ago

I didn't know company-reftex but from a quick look at its GitHub page, it seems that it's more narrow in scope. Specifically, company-reftex seems to focus on completing BibTeX keys when authoring LaTeX documents. Helm-bibtex has additional features that you'd expect in a more general bibliography manager, such as note-taking, access to PDFs, searching in online data bases and so on. helm-bibtex is also integrated with org-roam and org-ref. What's better for you depends on your use case.

hongyi-zhao commented 3 years ago

I'm currently mainly using auctex. I'm not sure whether it can co-operate with it.

tmalsburg commented 3 years ago

What do you mean by "it"? helm-bibtex or company-reftex? helm-bibtex should work. Just try it.

hongyi-zhao commented 3 years ago

I mean using helm-bibtex with auctex.

tmalsburg commented 3 years ago

As I said, it should work, just try it. Setting up helm-bibtex, should take <3min.

hongyi-zhao commented 3 years ago

Thank you. I'll give it a try.