From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
Cc: 44614@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44614: 26.3; bibtex convert case undefined
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:33:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9e7yk2x.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kdWt7-00EE0o-Tc@tucano.isti.cnr.it> ("Francesco Potortì"'s message of "Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:05:05 +0100")
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> writes:
> An old version of bibtex.el (last copyright 1997) uniquified cases based
> on the bibtex-unify-case-convert variable, which is now removed.
>
> This is unfortunate, and in my opinion a bug.
I tried to poke around to see whether there's any reason the variable
was removed, but I can't find any mention of it in the Emacs tree, so
it's possible that the in-tree version of bibtex.el never had the
variable?
> Looking at the old code, I see that the current behaviour is the same as
> the old 'identity value for the mentioned variable. I am working on a
> local patch for reverting to the old behaviour. After I finish, I can
> provide it, if there is any hope of it to be accepted.
>
> Here is the old definition:
>
> (defcustom bibtex-unify-case-convert 'downcase
> "*Function called when unifying case on entry and field names.
> This variable is buffer-local."
Sure; I think (re-)introducing such a variable would make sense.
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2020-11-13 11:05 bug#44614: 26.3; bibtex convert case undefined Francesco Potortì
2020-11-14 16:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-11-14 18:47 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-11-16 21:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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