From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David Chadd" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: bibtex-complete-string Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 16:00:52 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16699.10788.594862.509842@David-Chadds-Computer.local> Reply-To: d.chadd@uea.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094398669 4401 80.91.224.253 (5 Sep 2004 15:37:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 05 17:37:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C3z5E-0002PG-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:37:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C3zAM-0007rB-Mf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:42:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C3zAG-0007qv-1T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C3zAE-0007qV-SU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C3zAE-0007qL-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [139.222.130.52] (helo=mailgate1.uea.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C3z54-0003fP-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [139.222.130.17] (helo=mailserver2.uea.ac.uk) by mailgate1.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 1C3z4V-000Lbo-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:36:51 +0100 Original-Received: from [139.222.250.240] (helo=David-Chadds-Computer.local) by mailserver2.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 1C3z4U-002Aql-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:36:50 +0100 X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.1 (via feedmail 8 Q); VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.2.1 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs X-UEA-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-UEA-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20445 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20445 I've recently returned to using bibtex-mode for working on .bib files. The function bibtex-complete-string does not seem to work, either on my Fink distribution of version 21.2 under Mac OS X or the same version under Windows. Specifically, what happens is something similar to going into an endless loop - everything freezes and only C-g gets out of it. No amount of waiting produces a result. This is true running the function either from its binding or with M-x. The strings in the .bib file are as they should be, the paths seem to be OK, the file validates and BibTeX processes the strings correctly. What is annoying (and puzzling) is that this func used to work fine for me under both Windows and Linux, with (I think) emacs v.19.34. I seem to have three distinct bibtex.el files knocking around, containing latest dates (respectively) 1999, 2000 and 2003. I can't remember which (if any) of these I used when the func functioned, but I've tried loading all three (they look to have identical definitions of bibtex-complete-string) with a clean (no init-files) emacs, and they all fail in this way. I'm probably missing something very obvious. Any suggestions gratefully received. -- ------------------------------------- Professor David Chadd University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK net: d[dot]chadd[at]uea[dot]ac[dot]uk fax: +44 (0)1603 250454 -------------------------------------