cmp source for completing references

[avonmoll]

Thanks for making this plugin - it's awesome so far. When I'm in a markdown file, for example, it would be great to be able to do autocompletion of citation tags. Suppose I have a document in my papis library with the field ref: smith1992optimal, and I'm editing a markdown document in which I want to cite this reference. One option, which currently works is to type @| (the pipe character denotes the cursor position) and then enter Normal mode and hit Spacepp to open the papis.nvim telescope picker, begin typing smith19... and the fuzzy finder eventually matches and then hit enter, which puts smith1992optimal at the cursor position. My suggestion is to feed the refs as a source for cmp - that way, one need not exit Insert mode to search/match/input the desired citation.

[jghauser]

Thanks for the feedback! :)

This is definitely something I think should be part of the feature set eventually -- I just don't know when I'll get to it. There's a lot of other stuff on the list too (currently I'm writing tests) so it might take some time. If you want to write a PR, I would of course be happy to merge (and give feedback/input).

In the meantime, you could also use the insert mappings for Telescope (by default <c-p>p), this will allow you avoid the roundtrip through normal mode.

[jghauser]

maybe we can take some inspiration from here.

[grgmiranda]

and also from cmp-vimtex