Why is bibtex-completion-candidates run?

[philipphoman]

I'm wondering why bibtex-completion-candidates would parse my bibtex file whenever I startup emacs and run arbitrary commands e.g. org-agenda-list. It also happens when I open a org buffer that cites references in the bibtex file. Using Emacs 27.1 on MacOS 12.5 and the latest version of bibtex-completion. Thanks!

[tmalsburg]

1. bibtex-completion-candidates should not be run on startup, but on first use of helm-bibtex or ivy-bibtex.
2. This package also doesn't run arbitrary commands. For instance, org-agenda-list isn't mentioned anywhere in the code as you can easily confirm.

I think the problems that you're experiencing are cause by another package, perhaps org-ref or org-roam-bibtex. If you think they are caused by this package, please provide a minimal reproducible example (MRE) for that runs with emacs -Q and I can then investigate it. For the time being I will close this issue. Feel free to reopen when you have a MRE.