Re: bibtex-validate-globally

[Greg Bognar <greg.bognar@gmail.com>]

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!