On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 3:59 AM Arash Esbati <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hongyi Zhao <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:41 PM Vladimir Lomov <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > >> The advice is simple: don't use full path, try to put your bibtex files > >> into > >> $HOME/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi/ > > > > This will work by just using the bibliography file name, but it still > > can't let the `C-c [' find the bib file: > > > > werner@X10DAi:~$ ls $HOME/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi/ > > sample.bib > > Which brings us back to[1]: > > (setq reftex-bibpath-environment-variables > '("/home/werner/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi//"))
Yes. It does the trick. But why do you and the example in the document use `//' as the ending characters of the variable? Based on my tries, all the following forms are sufficient: "/home/werner/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi/" "/home/werner/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi" > Best, Arash (who didn't test his advice) > > Footnotes: > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/reftex.html#SEC48 Hongyi
