Dominik Honnef

Rantings on Emacs's bibtex parser

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jesus christ I just spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why emacs wouldn’t parse one of the entries in my bibliography… apparently because it uses different horrible regexps for the “bibtex” and the “biblatex” dialects of bib files, and one of them allows the TechReport type while the other one doesn’t… of course most of the world uses bibtex and biblatex interchangeably, and in the real world they even use the same file extension… (and I’m pretty sure both ought to support TechReport, so the regex is probably just wrong)