Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 24.3.1; RefTeX fails to find multiple bib files in \bibliography{} (with commas)

[Michael McNeil Forbes]

On May 2, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What is actually failing is reftex finding a bibliography in the
>> standard user location:
>> 
>> ~/Library/texmk/bibtex/bib/
>                ^
> Is that a typo?  I guess it should be texmf.
Yes: ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/

> Ok, I see.  On GNU/Linux, the standard user location seems to be
> ~/texmf/bibtex/bib/.  But reftex only looks into the current directory,
> BIBINPUTS, and TEXBIB.  I'd like not to hard-code paths that might be
> configured differently.

I believe these are part of the texlive specs, so it is probably reasonable
to support hardcoded values for these but not others.

>> I also tried setting the following, but it did not change any
>> behaviour:
>> 
>> (setq reftex-external-file-finders
>>      '(("tex" . "/usr/texbin/kpsewhich -format=.tex %f")
>>        ("bib" . "/usr/texbin/kpsewhich -format=.bib %f")))
> 
> That's the default value, isn't it?

It seems like it.

> Anyway, using external file finders works for me, but you also need to
> set `reftex-use-external-file-finders'.

This is what I was missing.  Everything works if I 

(setq reftex-use-external-file-finders t)

so this is a viable (and reasonable) workaround.  The only thing remaining that 
might be
a bug is that `reftex-default-bibliography` is ignored when multiple bib files 
are specified.

Thanks for your help… sorry for the quasi-domesticated goose chase:-)

> Bye,
> Tassilo