Bring back the older regex approach for loading bibtex files

Author: notZaki

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## [0.10.2] - 2023-06-08
+
+- Try to load bib files similar to v0.9.3 because the newer versions are not working for some users (issue #41)
+
 ## [0.10.1] - 2023-06-08
 
 - Try to fix citation autocompletion not showing up if a workspace is not loaded

package.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     "name": "pandocciter",
     "displayName": "Pandoc Citer",
     "description": "Autocomplete bibtex citations for markdown/pandoc",
-    "version": "0.10.1",
+    "version": "0.10.2",
     "publisher": "notZaki",
     "license": "MIT",
     "engines": {

src/components/manager.ts

@@ -44,12 +44,26 @@ export class Manager {
 
     findBib() : void {
         let foundFiles: string[] = [];
+        const activeText = vscode.window.activeTextEditor!.document.getText();
+        
+        // Re-use the old reg-ex approach in case the yaml parser fails
+        const bibRegex = /^bibliography:\s* \[(.*)\]/m;
+        let bibresult = activeText.match(bibRegex);
+        if (bibresult) {
+            const bibFiles = bibresult[1].split(',').map(item => item.trim());
+            for (let i in bibFiles) {
+                let bibFile = this.stripQuotes(bibFiles[i]);
+                bibFile = this.resolveBibFile(bibFile, undefined);
+                this.extension.log(`Looking for .bib file: ${bibFile}`);
+                this.addBibToWatcher(bibFile);
+                foundFiles.push(bibFile);
+            }
+        }
 
+        // This is the newer approach using yaml-js
         const docURI = vscode.window.activeTextEditor!.document.uri;
         const configuration = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('PandocCiter', docURI);
         const rootFolder = vscode.workspace.getWorkspaceFolder(docURI)?.uri.fsPath;
-        
-        const activeText = vscode.window.activeTextEditor!.document.getText();
         const yamltext = activeText.match(/---\r?\n((.+\r?\n)+)---/gm)
         const parsedyaml = yaml.loadAll(yamltext)[0]
         if (parsedyaml && parsedyaml.bibliography) {