bibtex-completion-edit-notes fails if set as default action

[issey173]

Disclaimer: I am quite new to the whole emacs world. I might be missing something obvious, apologies for that

I am trying to set the action "Edit notes" as the default. Following the instructions in the official doc I've done:

  (helm-delete-action-from-source "Edit notes" helm-source-bibtex)
  (helm-add-action-to-source "Edit notes" 'bibtex-completion-edit-notes helm-source-bibtex 0)

and then reload the config. These two lines are inside my :config within use-package helm-bibtex.

When I call helm-bibtex the default action is now "Edit notes" as it should be, but when I run it I get the following message: bibtex-completion-edit-notes: Wrong type argument: listp, "zhangVariationalReasoningQuestion2018"

I've tried to go over the backtrace using debug-mode but I don't see any further info. Funny thing is, if I try to set it back as action number 7 (f8), it won't work again. Only restarting the whole emacs server seems to put it back to normal.

Any help would be much appreciated! This is an amazing package and I'm just trying to optimize my workflow with it

I'm using:

• Doom emacs (emacs 27.2)
• emacs-daemon & emacsclient
• mac 12.0 monterey

[tmalsburg]

bibtex-completion-edit-notes is the "raw" version of the action that is not adapted to work with helm. I think you need to use helm-bibtex-edit-notes instead. Could you please try that and report back? Thank you.

[issey173]

Thank you very much! It is indeed as you said. Substituting bibtex-completion-edit-notes by helm-bibtex-edit-notes made it work. Closing the issue!

[tmalsburg]

Great. Thanks for the update.