* bibtex-validate-globally
@ 2007-01-21 7:57 Greg Bognar
2007-01-21 13:26 ` bibtex-validate-globally Roland Winkler
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From: Greg Bognar @ 2007-01-21 7:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
I have a question about the funtion bibtex-validate-globally.
According to its description, it should check for duplicate keys in
the variable bibtex-files. By default (in bibtex.el), this variable
is set to nil, so the function does not do anything. However, if I
set it to bibtex-file-path, whose value is given by (correctly) the
variable BIBINPUTS, it gives me a Wrong type argument: listp, [value
of bibtex-file-path]. So it seems that even though BibTeX sees my
dedicated directory of bibliography files, bibtex-validate-globally
does not work.
It would be nice if it did work, since I have a number of bibliography
databases in that directory, and bibtex-validate-globally could be
very useful to find duplicate keys.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Greg
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* Re: bibtex-validate-globally
2007-01-21 7:57 bibtex-validate-globally Greg Bognar
@ 2007-01-21 13:26 ` Roland Winkler
2007-01-21 19:04 ` bibtex-validate-globally Greg Bognar
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From: Roland Winkler @ 2007-01-21 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Greg Bognar <greg.bognar@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a question about the funtion bibtex-validate-globally.
> According to its description, it should check for duplicate keys in
> the variable bibtex-files. By default (in bibtex.el), this variable
> is set to nil, so the function does not do anything. However, if I
> set it to bibtex-file-path, whose value is given by (correctly) the
> variable BIBINPUTS, it gives me a Wrong type argument: listp, [value
> of bibtex-file-path].
The value of bibtex-files must be a list. One element of this list
can be the *symbol* bibtex-file-path. So
(setq bibtex-files '(bibtex-file-path))
is probably what you want.
Roland
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* Re: bibtex-validate-globally
2007-01-21 13:26 ` bibtex-validate-globally Roland Winkler
@ 2007-01-21 19:04 ` Greg Bognar
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From: Greg Bognar @ 2007-01-21 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:26:20 +0100, Roland Winkler wrote:
> Greg Bognar <greg.bognar@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have a question about the funtion bibtex-validate-globally. According
>> to its description, it should check for duplicate keys in the variable
>> bibtex-files. By default (in bibtex.el), this variable is set to nil,
>> so the function does not do anything. However, if I set it to
>> bibtex-file-path, whose value is given by (correctly) the variable
>> BIBINPUTS, it gives me a Wrong type argument: listp, [value of
>> bibtex-file-path].
>
> The value of bibtex-files must be a list. One element of this list can be
> the *symbol* bibtex-file-path. So
>
> (setq bibtex-files '(bibtex-file-path))
>
> is probably what you want.
What a stupid mistake -- I used the wrong syntax.
Thanks!
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