Greetings, I'm the current developer of biber, which is the main backend of the biblatex package. I was wondering about how desirable it seems to add biber support to auctex? biblatex/biber use is currently rapidly expanding since biber was added to TeXLive and I think it's fairly fair to say that biblatex/biber is set to become the default for users doing bibliographies in LaTeX in the future since its current and planned feature set is certainly beyond anything that can be done in plain bibtex. This seems to me to make it at least attractive to have AucTeX support biber natively. I have tried to keep the biber warnings/errors format the same as bibtex in the main so it's possible to add auctex support to some extent by defining a few variables. This works reasonably but it would be better to have it properly integrated with auctex. This would require some message parsing, the ability to pass certain flags automatically to biber would also be nice. I'm afraid I'm a fairly amateur lisp programmer these days and all of my "spare" time for programming is spent on biber anyway.
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