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From: Greg Bognar <greg.bognar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bibtex-validate-globally
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:04:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2007.01.21.19.04.26.294463@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3mz4c1pfn.fsf@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de

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!

      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-21 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-21  7:57 bibtex-validate-globally Greg Bognar
2007-01-21 13:26 ` bibtex-validate-globally Roland Winkler
2007-01-21 19:04   ` Greg Bognar [this message]

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