bibli-ls 0.1.0

A simple LSP server for your bibliographies

Bibli Language Server

A Language Server that brings bibliographies into your note-taking workflows.

Current features

• Configuration file (see Configuration).
• Autocompletion based on citation key.
• LSP hover shows selected fields from your bibliography files.

Planned Features

• Universal: Works with any note format
• Configurable: Per-workspace configuration files
• Rich LSP features:
  • Auto-completion & hint
  • Goto definition
• Per-document bibliographies
• Telescope integration

Configuration

Create a configuration file .bibli.toml at the root of your note directory. Here is a sample configurations:

bibfiles = ["references.bib"] # Relative path to your bibliographies

[hover]
show_fields = ["abstract", "year", "booktitle"]
format = "list" # Available formats: "markdown" and "list" (markdown-flavored list)

[completion]
cite_prefix = "@"

Installation

Install the latest release of bibli-ls through pip:

pip install bibli-ls

Neovim

Automatic configuration through lspconfig is not supported yet. Put the following code in your Neovim config to enable bibli-ls.

local lspconfig = require("lspconfig")
local configs = require("lspconfig.configs")

if not configs.bibli_ls then
 configs.bibli_ls = {
  default_config = {
   cmd = { "bibli_ls" },
   filetypes = { "markdown" },
   root_dir = lspconfig.util.root_pattern(".bibli.toml"),
  },
 }
end

lspconfig.bibli_ls.setup({})

Progress

Feature	Status
LSP Hover	TODO
LSP Completion	WIP
User configs	WIP