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#74409
30.0.92; customize buffer for bibtex-biblatex-entry-alist also shows unformatted variable value
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Reported by: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:45:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 30.0.92
Done: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 10 2025, Mauro Aranda wrote:
>> Both :format and :tag keywords are documented under: 15.4.4 Type
>> Keywords
>
> My understanding of what is documented there has been that these
> keywords are certainly useful, but always optional. But this bug report
> shows that not having the :tag keyword can have rather undesirable side
> effects. So I was wondering whether the documentation could gently
> indicate that not having a :tag keyword should be avoided (in what
> context?). -- But I do not understand enough details whether the fairly
> complex customization declarations for bibtex-biblatex-entry-alist that
> triggered this bug report are too specific a use case to justify this.
I see, yes. Docs could be improved here. Not having a :tag, is almost
never a good idea. This would be specific to the section Defining New
Types.
> What you say suggests to me that the present bug report #74409 has
> nothing to do with #53606. The latter has bothered me yet more. If you
> happen to be able to shine light on that one, too, that would be great.
Yes, nothing to do with it. I think the patch to wid-edit.el I posted
back in 2023 is the right approach to improving that situation.
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