From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] BibTeX-mode: add eprint field as potential source for entry's URL Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:38:38 -0600 Message-ID: <87iks0jycx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86o71v420t.fsf@gnu.org> <87v7w2kzaz.fsf@gnu.org> <865xo2439s.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18582"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Stein Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 03 21:39:44 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tIZgM-0004eo-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:39:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tIZfU-0000pI-Iw; Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tIZfS-0000oL-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tIZfS-0002zk-7H; Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:38:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To: From; bh=R52mJd3H9TGrHFkZ5BPSIl+3/N+OwF0hM0UZlsBkfGY=; b=EFNrUBqZK47upWhgZUaM tRa4egFHywZ1o7RH1R6oYlfQM4Vleb9J+bvlSsZTcWscqhQIEjoRBO7LCBXMibJsM2anubjJL97Y1 hoLyMP2kbRMvb7trF1D4bf4JS1U8BpoMbBW4nmG9AnXccFQRQuIpH6nXTxFMTYcMjD7mEW1hu4v5m CgGwYRV5IWr9SdzOMf+XAoYrteDMne0lUncLHUnG50Z5fYKe8KevnbQtysmq9wrWbp/kcF5ps3cMS LABCMW4IYeZht5vQlhr0OkzEKE6vUYT5MvkRPpIdUzA7WIg3S1GRG75zKOFO0/Gcm+r2+jNFJYdzn 8ZRY5brDuMljPA==; In-Reply-To: (Leo Stein's message of "Mon, 2 Dec 2024 11:39:17 -0600") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:326006 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 02 2024, Leo Stein wrote: > > All this goes beyond old-fashioned BibTeX.=A0 But the documentation > > for biblatex (current: version 3.20 from CTAN) says in Sec. 3.14.7 > > "Electronic Publishing Information" how the field "eprint" should be > > used in combination with a field "eprinttype" to identify an > > electronically published document. > > This is independent of bibtex vs. biber+biblatex. The documentation for these programs defines the defaults implemented via user variables of bibtex-mode. You are free to customize these variables. > Physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists use LaTeX and thus > bibtex more so than other specialties. It is beyond me to comment. > Of course I've customized the variable for myself. But it took me > years before I realized "Hey, wait a minute, why can't I click on the > arXiv number?", and then dug through the mode docs to discover that > it's possible to customize this. We are talking here about Emacs where 10 users may strongly advocate 20 different "most obvious" ways to change the behavior of Emacs.