Add a configuration option to prevent proactive reloading

[mwlodarczak]

While I understand its rationale, I find the new proactive reloading of bibliography quite frustrating as it kicks in every time I save the BIB file. I wonder whether adding a variable that controls this behaviour would be an option?

[tmalsburg]

While I sympathize, I'm worried about inflation of customization variables; we already have too many if you ask me. Perhaps a better solution would be to reload the bibliography in the background so that users don't have to wait? This could be implemented using threads which were introduced in Emacs 26.

[mwlodarczak]

Titus von der Malsburg <[email protected]> writes:

While I sympathize, I'm worried about inflation of customization variables; we already have too many if you ask me. Perhaps a better solution would be to reload the bibliography in the background so that users don't have to wait? This could be implemented using threads which were introduced in Emacs 26.

Indeed, that would be a good compromise. I understand the desire to keep the number of customisation variables to a minimum but I would argue that reloading on each save is such an invasive behaviour that it does warrant making an exception. Marcin

[tmalsburg]

Could you make a PR please?

[mwlodarczak]

Sure. I think that's all it takes: PR #301.

[rdiaz02]

If I may, I'd like to raise this issue again. I've fixed what I think was a bug in the original PR and added a longer docstring that specifically addresses @tmalsburg question:

If someone loads helm-bibtex with the default setting for bibtex-completion-watch-bibliography and then decides that they don't want to proactively reload the bibliography, they have to restart Emacs with the new setting, right?

The answer is yes: changing the value of the variable after loading helm-bibtex has no effect.

This is the PR: #443

[tmalsburg]

See bibtex-completion-watch-bibliography.