Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug:
reftex-parse-bibtex-entry uses a syntax table in which "-" is not a word constituent. This has the consequence that if a bibtex field name contains a hyphen, the entry will be incorrectly parsed. For example, consider the following entry: @article{test, author = {A.N. Other}, title = {Some title}, journal = {A Journal}, volume = 1, pages = {1--10}, year = 2001, Local-URL = {file://path/to/local/copy/of/paper}, url = {http://url/from/which/paper/was/obtained} } reftex-parse-bibtex-entry on this entry returns: (("url" . "http://url/from/which/paper/was/obtained") ("url" . "file://path/to/local/copy/of/paper") ("year" . "2001") ("pages" . "1--10") ("volume" . "1") ("journal" . "A Journal") ("title" . "Some title") ("author" . "A.N. Other") ("&type" . "article") ("&key" . "test")) Note that the "Local-URL" field has been turned into a "url" field which now appears twice (with two different values). The culprit is this regular expression in reftex-parse-bibtex-entry: "\\(\\w+\\)[ \t\n\r]*=[ \t\n\r]*" if this is changed to: "\\(\\(?:\\w\\|-\\)+\\)[ \t\n\r]*=[ \t\n\r]*" then "-" is treated as a valid field character and everything works properly. Alternately, one can make "-" a word constituent in the reftex syntax table: (modify-syntax-entry ?\- "w" reftex-syntax-table-for-bib) If either of these two strategies are adopted, then reftex-parse-bibtex-entry performs as expected, producing, for the above bibtex entry: (("url" . "http://url/from/which/paper/was/obtained") ("local-url" . "file://path/to/local/copy/of/paper") ("year" . "2001") ("pages" . "1--10") ("volume" . "1") ("journal" . "A Journal") ("title" . "Some title") ("author" . "A.N. Other") ("&type" . "article") ("&key" . "test")) In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2006-05-09 on lamacq.ph.ed.ac.uk X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000 configured using `configure '--prefix' '/scratch/s0198183/applications/emacs' '--with-x' '--without-xim'' Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrence Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug