Re: [AUCTeX] reftex completing bibtex keys

[Marcus Frings]

* Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tyler Smith <address@hidden> writes:

>>   In order to create a citation, press `C-c [' ...
>>   When entering the regular expression, you can complete on known
>>   citation keys.

>> When I am running Auctex with Reftex running, pressing C-c [ brings
>> up the citation style buffer, followed by the Regexp prompt. I can enter
>> search terms and get the expected list of refences from my .bib file.

>> However, I can't get any sort of completion.

> No, I don't think there is completion.  The docs of the CVS development
> version also don't have that statement anymore.

> ,----[ (info "(reftex)Creating Citations") ]
> | 4.1 Creating Citations
> | ======================
> | 
> | In order to create a citation, press `C-c ['.  RefTeX then prompts for
> | a regular expression which will be used to search through the database
> | and present the list of matches to choose from in a selection process
> | similar to that for selecting labels (*note Referencing Labels::).
> `----

Huh, that is weird because I have tab completion here (CVS AUCTeX). I
use `C-C [' and then start to type the first letters of a key and after
pressing TAB I get a *Completions* buffer showing possible keys.

Gruß,
Marcus
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