bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

"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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