Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.85; Biblatex vs. RefTex

[Ralf Angeli]

Please keep the mailing list copied!

* Andreas Breitbach (2009-06-27) writes:

> Am Samstag, den 27.06.2009, 15:42 +0200 schrieb Ralf Angeli:
>> 
>> I still cannot reproduce this, not even with Emacs 22.2, so this will be
>> difficult to debug without having access to the installation.  Anyway,
>> what's the result if you set `reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' to nil?
> I hope to have the time to cross-check this whole stuff with another
>  PC(running Ubuntu 8.10, as far as I remember). With the "nil"
>  applied, it works as it should:
>  \footcite{InternationalSecurity.1Summer.2000}.

Does it help if you apply the following patch to reftex-cite.el,
recompile and reinstall?  Alternatively you can evaluate a patched
version of `reftex-do-citation' in a running Emacs session by copying
its definition into the *scratch* buffer and typing `C-M-x' with point
in it.

--- reftex-cite.el.~1.53.~      2009-03-01 15:42:06.000000000 +0100
+++ reftex-cite.el      2009-06-27 16:27:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -702,8 +702,9 @@
                        (equal arg '(4))))
           (let ((start 0) (nth 0) value)
             (while (setq start (string-match "\\[\\]" string start))
-              (setq value (read-string (format "Optional argument %d: "
-                                               (setq nth (1+ nth)))))
+              (setq value (save-match-data
+                           (read-string (format "Optional argument %d: "
+                                                (setq nth (1+ nth))))))
               (setq string (replace-match (concat "[" value "]") t t string))
               (setq start (1+ start)))))
         ;; Should we cleanup empty optional arguments?

-- 
Ralf