Emacs 27-28, improvements to BibTeX

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

In Emacs 27, there has been some improvements to bibtex-mode, for
example

(defun bibtex-next-entry (&optional arg)
  "Move point ARG entries forward.
ARG defaults to one.  Called interactively, ARG is the prefix
argument."
  (interactive "p")
  (bibtex-end-of-entry)
  (when (re-search-forward bibtex-entry-maybe-empty-head nil t (or arg 1))
    (goto-char (match-beginning 0))))

(defun bibtex-previous-entry (&optional arg)
  "Move point ARG entries backward.
ARG defaults to one.  Called interactively, ARG is the prefix
argument."
  (interactive "p")
  (bibtex-beginning-of-entry)
  (when (re-search-backward bibtex-entry-maybe-empty-head nil t (or arg 1))
    (goto-char (match-beginning 0))))

It is interesting, since I've had for a while, and also posted on MLs,
this

;; (defun bibtex-next-entry ()
;;   (interactive)
;;   (end-of-line)
;;   (if (re-search-forward "@" nil t)
;;       (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
;;     (bibtex-prev-entry)
;;     (message "this is the last entry") ))
;;
;; (defun bibtex-prev-entry ()
;;   (interactive)
;;   (re-search-backward "@" nil t) )

(now commented out, since not in use)

Sure, I'll remove it, your version seems more ... something!

BTW a LOT of people seems to be working on bibtex stuff? Is this a new
thing? I ask because I've posted bibtex stuff for several years here
and on gmane.emacs.devel and never got a single reply so I thought
I was the only one who used it?

Well, anyway, this is great! Take a look here

  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/bibtex-get.el

and see if you have implemented something else that I can remove!

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