Re: org-bibtex does not work

[Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>]

Hi Torsten,

I've had a similar problem which I believe is due to an error in
bibtex.el.  In my case it was fixed by explicitly loading the bibtex.el
file which comes with Emacs.

Best -- Eric

Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I finally converted all my BibTex references into a org file.
> Now I face the problem that I can't generate a BibTeX file.
> org-bibtex ask me for the filename and then it seems to be stuck in a
> infinite loop.
> Only way to get out of this is using C-g.
> The BibTeX file never appeared.
> setting the debugger to start on quit (setq debug-on-quit) results in
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>   bibtex-realign()
>   bibtex-reformat()
>   (progn (insert entry) (when tags (bibtex-beginning-of-entry) (if
> (re-search-forward "keywords.*=.*{\\(.*\\)}" nil t) (progn (goto-char
> (match-end 1)) (insert ", ")) (bibtex-make-field "keywords" t t))
> (insert (mapconcat (function identity) tags ", "))) (bibtex-reformat)
> (buffer-string))
>   (unwind-protect (progn (insert entry) (when tags
> (bibtex-beginning-of-entry) (if (re-search-forward
> "keywords.*=.*{\\(.*\\)}" nil t) (progn (goto-char (match-end 1))
> (insert ", ")) (bibtex-make-field "keywords" t t)) (insert (mapconcat
> (function identity) tags ", "))) (bibtex-reformat) (buffer-string))
> (and (buffer-name temp-buffer) (kill-buffer temp-buffer)))
>   (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (unwind-protect (progn
> (insert entry) (when tags (bibtex-beginning-of-entry) (if
> (re-search-forward "keywords.*=.*{\\(.*\\)}" nil t) (progn (goto-char
> (match-end 1)) (insert ", ")) (bibtex-make-field "keywords" t t))
> (insert (mapconcat (function identity) tags ", "))) (bibtex-reformat)
> (buffer-string)) (and (buffer-name temp-buffer) (kill-buffer
> temp-buffer))))
>
> followed by many many more lines.
> I tried to export a single entry in a own buffer as well without
> success. I skipped my entire emacs settings and used a bare-bone emacs
> with exactly the same result.
> As from the debugger it seems to be a problem of the internal bibtex
> mode. However, I hope someone here is capable to help. I updated both
> emacs and org-mode without luck
>
> org-mode 7.7 (git build from today)
> emacs GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1 (bzr build from today)
>
> Would be helpfull already if someone could confirm whether it works at
> the moment or whether it seems broken
> Thanks
>
> Torsten