Unable to restrict the search target for auto-completion of bib entries

[mayukonomoto]

When I type one or a few letters to narrows down the candidates using automatic completion for bib entries, what is being searched for?
I want to narrow down the candidates to only those that contain the input characters in the citationkey, and sort them in order of similarity to the input characters. Is there a way to set this?

In the example of the attached image, it shows the citationkey on the candidate list. However, even though there are other citationkeys that include all or part of the characters “mil” in them, they appear very late in the list or not at all.

[James-Yu]

LaTeX-Workshop/src/completion/completer/citation.ts

Line 137 in 7c8a632

item.filterText = item.key + ' ' + item.fields.title + ' ' + item.fields.join(fields.filter(field => field !== 'title'), false)

The filtering is based on key, title, and other bib entry fields. The sorting is controlled by vscode: we cannot change that.

@jlelong This issue makes me think, will it be a good idea to customize the filterText of bib entries? Current implementation can be a bit ambigious?

[jlelong]

@James-Yu it would great to make the filterText customizable through a configuration variable.

[mayukonomoto]

Thank you for your quick response.
I will make use of the new setting.

I forgot to mention it at the beginning, but your plugin is always helping me with my work.
Thank you very much!