Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [Reftex] 2 patches to let users customize reftex-view-crossref for citations

[Damien Cassou]

Hi Ralf,

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I wrote two very simple patches to let users customize
>> reftex-view-crossref for citations. They replace the hard-coded regexp
>> string "\\`\\\\cite\\|cite\\*?\\'\\|bibentry" by a new customizable
>> variable reftex-view-crossref-cite-macros.
>
> If this is done for citation macros, one could ask why it is not done
> for the other options covered in `reftex-view-crossref'.
>
>> This patch is useful for me because I use macros such as \cauthor{XXX}
>> and \ccauthor{XXX} to display the names of the authors along with the
>> reference number.
>
> Does RefTeX know about these macros?  That means, have you added them to
> `reftex-cite-format' or the like?  Because if RefTeX already knows the
> macros, perhaps we could use this information to create the regexp above
> without having to introduce a new variable.

I didn't change these variables because I didn't know about them :-).
Do you prefer me to implement the same functionality using these
variables instead?

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