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bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 16:14:43 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sun Dec 6 2020 Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Looks reasonable to me. I've added Roland to the Cc's; perhaps he
>> has some comments.
>
> [Thank you Lars, I haven't subscribed to the bug-gnu-emacs mailing
> list. Lately bug reports for bibtex.el seem to be popular. Can you
> please drop me a note if you see more bug reports for bibtex.el?
> Thanks!]
Sure; I'm just slowly working my way through old bug reports, which is
why you're seeing more of these now. :-) I'll keep Cc-ing you on the
bibtex stuff.
> A few days ago I installed in master a related patch that I had
> lying around for some time. I believe it addresses the question of
> searching the date and year field in a cleaner way by passing a list
> of field names to bibtex-text-in-field. But I didn't know the new
> iso8601 library. So that's the main purpose of the new patch
> attached below. (This patch is against the current version of
> bibtex.el in master.)
Looks good to me.
> Regarding the docstring of bibtex-generate-autokey: I am not sure
> this is the right place to elaborate on iso8601. bibtex.el assumes
> throughout that users are familiar with valid values for different
> fields.
Yup.
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