Subject: Re: bug#55342: 29.0.50; org-cite-basic--get-field: Wrong value for ENTRY-OR-KEY: nil

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 15:08:23 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Kaushal Modi <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 12:52:52 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> From: Kaushal Modi <[email-masked]>
> >> Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 17:41:32 -0400
> >> 
> >> Exporting an Org file with citations on Emacs 29 now throws the error
> >> "Wrong value for ENTRY-OR-KEY: nil". This error can be reproduced with
> >> the Org version shipped with Emacs on the master branch.
> >
> > Shouldn't this be reported to Org developers first?
> 
> It has been.
> However, part of the problem lies in the bibtex-map-entries:
> 
>           ;; If we have invalid entries, ensure that we have forward
>           ;; progress so that we don't infloop.
>           (if (= (point) prev)
>               (forward-line 1)
> 
> The code above always skips a bibtex entry starting at bob.
> Hence, the provided example bibliography is parsed as empty, which is
> not expected by Org.

Thanks.  It would be nice to have that information included in the
original report.