This is a simple Bibtex completer working with youcompleteme for vim.

Git clone the program:

git clone https://github.com/Acanthostega/bibtex-completer
cd bibtex-completer

Run ./install.sh in the directory of installation and follow the instructions if problems.

If not already done, install bibtexparser module for python 2.x (used by YouCompleteMe).

pip install bibtexparser --user # --user for local installation

Put a file named .bibtex_completer.json in json format in the root directory of your latex document, or upper in the tree structure. The program will up in the tree until finding this configuration file.

Inside put a dictionary with the key "bibtex" containing the list of files used for the bibtex references.

{
    "bibtex": [ "path/to/reference.bib", "/path/to/second/references.bib"],
    "root": "path",
}

The root key is used for the root directory to search in .tex files for labels. If not specified, it will be the directory where the used configuration file is placed.

YouCompleteMe doesn't like non ASCII characters and so they are dropped from the bib files. DON'T USE IT IN KEY IDENTIFIER IN THE BIBTEX FILES. The corresponding key will not be the good one.