From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Bognar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: bibtex-validate-globally Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:57:52 -0500 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169368830 25351 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2007 08:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 21 09:40:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8YFX-0005RY-Gd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:40:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8YFX-0003tp-2S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:40:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-186-239.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1169366272 6017 128.103.186.239 (21 Jan 2007 07:57:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:57:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144884 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40488 Archived-At: 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