On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

On Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015 at 09:50, Rasmus wrote:
> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>> Since this one is not much more intrusive than the previous one, we
>> could as well drop @key in favor of @{key}.
>
> It seems like a moderately dear price to pay for everyone with "normal"
> citation keys... It's better than @key-with-',?.'{}.

I agree. I would rather type @key >90% of the time instead of
@{key}. For me, the alternative is more than a moderately high price to
pay!

If we don't want a proliferation of alternative syntax, maybe we need to
impose the restriction already suggested of not allowing punctuation at
the end of a key. Solve the problem upstream... and not have the tail
wag the dog!

But, of course, don't let this tail (me) wag the dog (the rest of you)
should the consensus be that the design is cleaner with @{key}. I'll
manage! :)

Thanks,
eric

I also think a simpler key syntax will make htis much nmore usable. Citations are in general somewhat distracting from the writing process; every additional keystroke is gong to add to that distraction. This is true even if hand-added citations are likely to be the exception rather than the norm.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.1, Org release_8.3beta-843-ga5f1a3.dirty