I think at stackexchange the file you gave was the same. The possible difference hence is the installation of the newer auctex?
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:48 AM Wierdl Máté <[email protected]> wrote: > Arash, > > This is fantastic. I installed the new auctex via elpa and your style > file, and now when I enter a tcolorbox environment, I get the keyval labels > added automatically. I also see the references when I do C-c ). > > I'll report back if I see any bugs but I am happy! > > The answer you gave me a while back in stack exchange was only partially > working, but now this is all good. Maybe you want to update there? > > > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/463855/auctex-reftex-how-do-i-handle-labels-that-use-label-name-syntax-instead-of > > Thx, bro, > > Máté > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:17 AM Arash Esbati <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Máté, >> >> Wierdl Máté <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > I am using the tcolorbox latex package which doesn't use the usual >> '\label' >> > command. Instead, one has to specify a label in key-val form as in >> > >> > \begin{thm}[label={thm:1}]{}{} >> > $1=2/2$ >> > \end{thm} >> > >> > Is there a way to have reftex/auctex work with this variation? >> >> AUCTeX/RefTeX were designed for vanilla LaTeX. Additional packages are >> supported via style files (within AUCTeX) and customization in RefTeX. >> key-val labels are possible, but with some limitations (see below). >> >> > What I mean is this >> > >> > 1) reftex keeps track of these as labels and when I want to reference >> this >> > theorem, 'C-c )' will show this to me. >> >> You can add your environment to `reftex-label-regexps' in order to tell >> RefTeX about `thm'. But the regexp is somewhat complicated. >> >> > (Until today, this was working fine, but now reftex doesn't recognize >> > this form of a label. I have no idea what happened, what's changed. ) >> >> Which version of Emacs are you using? Have you updated to 27.1? >> RefTeX's handling of key-val labels was changed there. >> >> > 2) auctex/reftex enters a label in this key-val form when I do 'C-c ('. >> >> You can teach AUCTeX to insert a key-val label when you insert the >> environment with `C-c C-e ENV RET'; hitting `C-c (' in an environment >> doesn't work. >> >> > 3) the "renumber simple labels" function works with such references. >> >> This is indeed a missing feature in RefTeX. I never really looked how >> RefTeX does this, hence I can't help. >> >> Long time ago, I started writing a support file for tcolorbox's theorems >> library. That unfinished work is attached. Set the variable >> `TeX-style-private' to a directory of your choice, e.g.: >> >> (setq TeX-style-private >> (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/auctex-style")) >> >> save the file there and open your .tex file. Also hit `C-c C-n' to >> parse your document. Maybe you can report back if it works. >> >> Best, Arash >> >
