Installation

Prerequisites

  1. On linux, make sure to install xclip.

  2. Optionally, define the EDITOR environment variable to an editor of your choice (this is usually already set on unix systems).

  3. Optionally, for improved presentation, install bibtex.

pip installation

pip3 install bibo

On linux / mac you might need to prepend the above command with sudo for system wide installation, or, preferably, use the --user flag like this:

pip3 install --user bibo

For more information see the official packages installation guide.

Auto-complete

To activate auto-complete, if you’re using Bash add the following to your .bashrc

eval "$(_BIBO_COMPLETE=bash_source bibo)"

If you’re on zsh add this to your .zshrc

eval "$(_BIBO_COMPLETE=zsh_source bibo)"

Now, while in the middle of a command, press <TAB> to auto-complete options, arguments, or keys from your .bib database.