Subject: Re: bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 16:52:07 +0200

Ryan Kavanagh <[email-masked]> writes:

> The bibtex.el package will automatically generate a key for a BibTeX
> entry when required. To do so, it extracts the year from the 'year'
> field. Instead of the 'year' field, the biblatex dialect uses the 'date'
> field to record the publication date. The bibtex-generate-autokey
> function should fallback to the date field when the year field is
> absent.

This makes sense to me, but I'm not a bibtex user.  Anybody else that
can take a look at this patch?

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