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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1997-08-22 02:23:24 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1997-08-22 02:23:24 +0000
commit0eab3c77129f286f30ebb45f9bf5832afd3282ec (patch)
treee9e06e039733752e40f875b385f284d70ccb6228 /lisp
parent5f9c2758ab55d8214826ac79618a52b17e627658 (diff)
downloademacs-0eab3c77129f286f30ebb45f9bf5832afd3282ec.tar.gz
Many doc fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
-rw-r--r--lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el194
1 files changed, 97 insertions, 97 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el b/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
index ac76c7aaecb..f435dc33b93 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
;; Usage:
;; See documentation for function bibtex-mode (or type "\M-x describe-mode"
-;; when you are in bibtex-mode).
+;; when you are in BibTeX mode).
;; Todo:
;; Distribute texinfo file.
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
(defcustom bibtex-field-delimiters 'braces
"*Controls type of field delimiters used.
-Set this to 'braces or 'double-quotes according to your personal
-preferences. This variable is buffer local."
+Set this to `braces' or `double-quotes' according to your personal
+preferences. This variable is buffer-local."
:group 'bibtex
:type '(choice (const braces)
(const double-quotes)))
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ preferences. This variable is buffer local."
(defcustom bibtex-entry-delimiters 'braces
"*Controls type of entry delimiters used.
-Set this to 'braces or 'parentheses according to your personal
-preferences. This variable is buffer local."
+Set this to `braces' or `parentheses' according to your personal
+preferences. This variable is buffer-local."
:group 'bibtex
:type '(choice (const braces)
(const parentheses)))
@@ -97,35 +97,36 @@ If this is a function, it will be called to generate the initial field text."
'(("annote" "Personal annotation (ignored)"))
"*List of optional fields the user wants to have always present.
Entries should be of the same form as the OPTIONAL and
-CROSSREF-OPTIONAL lists in bibtex-entry-field-alist (see documentation
+CROSSREF-OPTIONAL lists in `bibtex-entry-field-alist' (see documentation
of this variable for details)."
:group 'bibtex
:type '(repeat
(repeat string)))
(defcustom bibtex-entry-format '(opts-or-alts numerical-fields)
- "*Controls type of formatting performed by bibtex-clean-entry.
+ "*Controls type of formatting performed by `bibtex-clean-entry'.
It may be t, nil, or a list of symbols out of the following:
-'opts-or-alts (delete empty optional and alternative fields and
- remove OPT and ALT prefixes from used fields)
-'numerical-fields (delete delimiters around numeral fields)
-'page-dashes (change double dashes in page field to single dash
- (for scribe compatibility))
-'inherit-booktitle (if entry contains a crossref field and booktitle
+opts-or-alts Delete empty optional and alternative fields and
+ remove OPT and ALT prefixes from used fields.
+numerical-fields Delete delimiters around numeral fields.
+page-dashes Change double dashes in page field to single dash
+ (for scribe compatibility).
+inherit-booktitle If entry contains a crossref field and booktitle
field is empty, it is set to the contents of the
- title field of the crossreferenced entry
- (caution: this will work only if buffer is
- correctly sorted))
-'realign (realign entries, so that field texts and perhaps equal
+ title field of the crossreferenced entry.
+ Caution: this will work only if buffer is
+ correctly sorted.
+realign Realign entries, so that field texts and perhaps equal
signs (depending on the value of
- bibtex-align-at-equal-sign) begin in the same column)
-'last-comma (add or delete comma on end of last field in entry,
- depending on the value of bibtex-comma-after-last-field)
-'delimiters (change delimiters according to variables
- bibtex-field-delimiters and bibtex-entry-delimiters)
-'unify-case (change case of entry and field names)
-Value t means do all of the above formatting actions,
-value nil means do no formatting at all."
+ bibtex-align-at-equal-sign) begin in the same column.
+last-comma Add or delete comma on end of last field in entry,
+ according to value of `bibtex-comma-after-last-field'.
+delimiters Change delimiters according to variables
+ `bibtex-field-delimiters' and `bibtex-entry-delimiters'.
+unify-case Change case of entry and field names.
+
+The value t means do all of the above formatting actions.
+The value nil means do no formatting at all."
:group 'bibtex
:type '(choice (const :tag "None" nil)
(const :tag "All" t)
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ value nil means do no formatting at all."
(defcustom bibtex-clean-entry-hook nil
"*List of functions to call when entry has been cleaned.
-Functions are called with point inside the cleaned entry, buffer is
+Functions are called with point inside the cleaned entry, and the buffer
narrowed to just the entry."
:group 'bibtex
:type '(repeat function))
@@ -142,35 +143,35 @@ narrowed to just the entry."
"*If non-nil, BibTeX @String entries are not sort-significant.
That means they are ignored when determining ordering of the buffer
(e.g. sorting, locating alphabetical position for new entries, etc.).
-This variable is buffer local."
+This variable is buffer-local."
:group 'bibtex
:type 'boolean)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'bibtex-sort-ignore-string-entries)
(defcustom bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries nil
- "*If non-nil, bibtex-mode maintains all BibTeX entries in sorted order.
+ "*If non-nil, BibTeX mode maintains all BibTeX entries in sorted order.
Setting this variable to nil will strip off some comfort (e.g. TAB
completion for reference keys in minibuffer, automatic detection of
-duplicates) from bibtex-mode. See also bibtex-sort-ignore-string-entries.
-This variable is buffer local."
+duplicates) from BibTeX mode. See also `bibtex-sort-ignore-string-entries'.
+This variable is buffer-local."
:group 'bibtex
:type 'boolean)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries)
(defcustom bibtex-field-kill-ring-max 20
- "*Maximum length of bibtex-field-kill-ring before oldest elements are deleted."
+ "*Max length of `bibtex-field-kill-ring' before discarding oldest elements."
:group 'bibtex
:type 'integer)
(defcustom bibtex-entry-kill-ring-max 20
- "*Maximum length of bibtex-entry-kill-ring before oldest elements are deleted."
+ "*Max length of `bibtex-entry-kill-ring' before discarding oldest elements."
:group 'bibtex
:type 'integer)
(defcustom bibtex-parse-keys-timeout 60
"*Specifies interval for parsing buffers.
All BibTeX buffers in emacs are parsed if emacs has been idle
-`bibtex-parse-keys-timeout' seconds. Only buffers which were modified
+`bibtex-parse-keys-timeout' seconds. Only buffers which were modified
after last parsing and which are maintained in sorted order are parsed."
:group 'bibtex
:type 'integer)
@@ -389,7 +390,7 @@ FIELD-NAME is the name of the field, COMMENT-STRING the comment to
appear in the echo area, INIT is either the initial content of the
field or a function, which is called to determine the initial content
of the field, and ALTERNATIVE-FLAG (either nil or t) marks if the
-field is an alternative. ALTERNATIVE-FLAG may be t only in the
+field is an alternative. ALTERNATIVE-FLAG may be t only in the
REQUIRED or CROSSREF-REQUIRED lists.")
(defcustom bibtex-add-entry-hook nil
@@ -419,7 +420,7 @@ Each element is a list with just one element: the string."
("toplas")
))
"Alist of string definitions.
-Should contain the strings defined in the BibTeX style files. Each
+Should contain the strings defined in the BibTeX style files. Each
element is a list with just one element: the string."
:group 'bibtex
:type '(repeat
@@ -428,14 +429,14 @@ element is a list with just one element: the string."
(defcustom bibtex-string-files nil
"*List of BibTeX files containing string definitions.
Those files must be specified using pathnames relative to the
-directories specified in bibtex-string-file-path. This variable is only
-evaluated when bibtex-mode is entered (i. e. when loading the BibTeX
+directories specified in `bibtex-string-file-path'. This variable is only
+evaluated when BibTeX mode is entered (i. e. when loading the BibTeX
file)."
:group 'bibtex
:type '(repeat file))
(defvar bibtex-string-file-path (getenv "BIBINPUTS")
- "*Colon separated list of pathes to search for bibtex-string-files.")
+ "*Colon separated list of pathes to search for `bibtex-string-files'.")
(defcustom bibtex-help-message t
"*If not nil print help messages in the echo area on entering a new field."
@@ -444,28 +445,28 @@ file)."
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-prefix-string ""
"*String to use as a prefix for all generated keys.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for further detail."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for more detail."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'string)
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-names 1
"*Number of names to use for the automatically generated reference key.
If this is set to anything but a number, all names are used.
-Possibly more names are used according to bibtex-autokey-names-stretch.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for further detail."
+Possibly more names are used according to `bibtex-autokey-names-stretch'.
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for more detail."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'integer)
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-names-stretch 0
"*Number of names that can additionally be used.
These names are used only, if all names are used then.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'integer)
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-additional-names ""
"*String to prepend to the generated key if not all names could be used.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'string)
@@ -490,19 +491,19 @@ See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
;; braces
("{" "") ("}" ""))
"Alist of (old-regexp new-string) pairs.
-Used by the default values of bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings and
-bibtex-autokey-titleword-change-strings. Defaults to translating some
-language specific characters to their ascii transcriptions and
+Used by the default values of `bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings' and
+`bibtex-autokey-titleword-change-strings'. Defaults to translating some
+language specific characters to their ASCII transcriptions, and
removing any character accents.")
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings
bibtex-autokey-transcriptions
- "Alist of (old-regexp new-string) pairs.
-Any part of name matching a old-regexp is replaced by new-string.
-Case of the old-regexp is significant. All regexps are tried in the
+ "Alist of (OLD-REGEXP NEW-STRING) pairs.
+Any part of name matching a OLD-REGEXP is replaced by NEW-STRING.
+Case is significant in OLD-REGEXP. All regexps are tried in the
order in which they appear in the list, so be sure to avoid inifinite
loops here.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type '(repeat
(list (regexp :tag "Old")
@@ -511,20 +512,20 @@ See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-name-length 'infty
"*Number of characters from name to incorporate into key.
If this is set to anything but a number, all characters are used.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type '(choice (const :tag "All" infty)
integer))
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-name-separator ""
"*String that comes between any two names in the key.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'string)
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-year-length 2
"*Number of rightmost digits from the year field yo incorporate into key.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'integer)
@@ -533,7 +534,7 @@ See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
If this variable is non-nil and the current entry has no year, but a
valid crossref entry, the year field from the crossreferenced entry is
used.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'boolean)
@@ -541,8 +542,8 @@ See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
"*Number of title words to use for the automatically generated reference key.
If this is set to anything but a number, all title words are used.
Possibly more words from the title are used according to
-bibtex-autokey-titlewords-stretch.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+`bibtex-autokey-titlewords-stretch'.
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type '(choice (const :tag "All" infty)
integer))
@@ -551,41 +552,41 @@ See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
'("\\." "!" "\\?" ":" ";" "--")
"*Regexp list defining the termination of the main part of the title.
Case of the regexps is ignored.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type '(repeat regexp))
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-titlewords-stretch 2
"*Number of words that can additionally be used from the title.
These words are used only, if a sentence from the title can be ended then.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'integer)
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-titleword-first-ignore
'("a" "an" "on" "the" "eine?" "der" "die" "das")
"*Determines words that may begin a title but are not to be used in the key.
-Each item of the list is a regexp. If the first word of the title matchs a
+Each item of the list is a regexp. If the first word of the title matchs a
regexp from that list, it is not included in the title, even if it is
capitalized. Case of regexps in this list doesn't matter.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type '(repeat regexp))
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-titleword-abbrevs nil
"*Determines exceptions to the usual abbreviation mechanism.
-An alist of (old-regexp new-string) pairs. Case of old-regexp ignored.
-The first matching pair is used.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details.")
+An alist of (OLD-REGEXP NEW-STRING) pairs. Case is ignored
+in matching against OLD-REGEXP, and the first matching pair is used.
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details.")
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-titleword-change-strings
bibtex-autokey-transcriptions
- "Alist of (old-regexp new-string) pairs.
-Any part of title word matching a old-regexp is replaced by new-string.
-Case of the old-regexp is significant. All regexps are tried in the
+ "Alist of (OLD-REGEXP NEW-STRING) pairs.
+Any part of title word matching a OLD-REGEXP is replaced by NEW-STRING.
+Case is significant in OLD-REGEXP. All regexps are tried in the
order in which they appear in the list, so be sure to avoid inifinite
loops here.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type '(repeat
(list (regexp :tag "Old")
@@ -594,32 +595,32 @@ See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-titleword-length 5
"*Number of characters from title words to incorporate into key.
If this is set to anything but a number, all characters are used.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type '(choice (const :tag "All" infty)
integer))
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-titleword-separator "_"
"*String to be put between the title words.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'string)
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-name-year-separator ""
"*String to be put between name part and year part of key.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'string)
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-year-title-separator ":_"
"*String to be put between name part and year part of key.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'string)
(defcustom bibtex-autokey-preserve-case nil
- "*If non-nil, names and titlewords used aren't converted to lowercase.
-See the documentation of function bibtex-generate-autokey for details."
+ "*If non-nil, names and titlewords used aren't converted to lower case.
+See the documentation of function `bibtex-generate-autokey' for details."
:group 'bibtex-autokey
:type 'boolean)
@@ -666,7 +667,8 @@ Should be equal to the space needed for the longest name part."
(defcustom bibtex-align-at-equal-sign nil
"*If non-nil, align fields at equal sign instead of field text.
-If non nil, column of equal sign is bibtex-text-indentation - 2."
+If non-nil, the column for the equal sign is
+the value of `bibtex-text-indentation', minus 2."
:group 'bibtex
:type 'boolean)
@@ -2347,7 +2349,7 @@ If non nil, column of equal sign is bibtex-text-indentation - 2."
"Major mode for editing BibTeX files.
To submit a problem report, enter \\[bibtex-submit-bug-report] from a
-bibtex-mode buffer. This automatically sets up a mail buffer with
+BibTeX mode buffer. This automatically sets up a mail buffer with
version information already added. You just need to add a description
of the problem, including a reproducable test case and send the
message.
@@ -2438,7 +2440,7 @@ The following may be of interest as well:
bibtex-string-files
---------------------------------------------------------
-Entry to BibTeX mode calls the value of bibtex-mode-hook if that value is
+Entry to BibTeX mode calls the value of `bibtex-mode-hook' if that value is
non-nil.
\\{bibtex-mode-map}
@@ -2631,7 +2633,7 @@ behaviour, I did the following:")))
(defun bibtex-entry (entry-type)
"Inserts a new BibTeX entry.
-After insertion it calls the functions in bibtex-add-entry-hook."
+After insertion it calls the functions in `bibtex-add-entry-hook'."
(interactive (let* ((completion-ignore-case t)
(e-t (completing-read
"Entry Type: "
@@ -2815,7 +2817,7 @@ using the minibuffer."
"Move to beginning of BibTeX entry.
If inside an entry, move to the beginning of it, otherwise move to the
beginning of the previous entry.
-If called from a program returns point."
+If called from a program, this function returns the new location of point."
(interactive)
(skip-chars-forward " \t")
(if (looking-at "@")
@@ -2826,7 +2828,7 @@ If called from a program returns point."
"Move to end of BibTeX entry.
If inside an entry, move to the end of it, otherwise move to the end
of the previous entry.
-If called from a program returns point."
+If called from a program, this function returns the new location of point."
(interactive)
(let ((case-fold-search t)
(valid-entry-head
@@ -2964,8 +2966,8 @@ With argument, show all text."
(defun bibtex-sort-buffer ()
"Sort BibTeX buffer alphabetically by key.
-Text outside of BibTeX entries is not affected. If
-bibtex-sort-ignore-string-entries is non-nil, @String entries will be
+Text outside of BibTeX entries is not affected. If
+`bibtex-sort-ignore-string-entries' is non-nil, @String entries will be
ignored."
(interactive)
(save-restriction
@@ -2997,8 +2999,9 @@ not, bibtex-find-entry-location will fail). If entry-name is already
used as a reference key, an error is signaled. However, if optional
variable IGNORE-DUPS is non-nil, no error messages about duplicate
entries are signaled, but the error handling is assumed to be made in
-the calling function. Nil is returned, if an duplicate entry error
-occurred, and t in all other cases."
+the calling function.
+The value is nil if an duplicate entry error occurred,
+and t in all other cases."
(let* ((case-fold-search t)
(left
(progn
@@ -3374,8 +3377,8 @@ Aligns text and goes thereafter to end of text."
(defun bibtex-kill-field (&optional copy-only)
"Kills the entire enclosing BibTeX field.
-With prefix arg copy the current field to bibtex-field-kill-ring, but
-do not actually kill it."
+With prefix arg, copy the current field to `bibtex-field-kill-ring,'
+but do not actually kill it."
(interactive "P")
(let ((pnt (point))
(case-fold-search t))
@@ -3414,9 +3417,9 @@ do not actually kill it."
(bibtex-kill-field t))
(defun bibtex-kill-entry (&optional copy-only)
- "Kills the entire enclosing BibTeX reference entry.
+ "Kill the entire enclosing BibTeX reference entry.
With prefix arg copy the current reference entry to
-bibtex-entry-kill-ring, but do not actually kill it."
+`bibtex-entry-kill-ring', but do not actually kill it."
(interactive "P")
(let ((pnt (point))
(case-fold-search t)
@@ -3490,7 +3493,7 @@ comes the newest one."
(bibtex-find-text t))
(defun bibtex-pop-previous (arg)
- "Replace text of current field with the text of similar field in previous entry.
+ "Replace text of current field with the similar field in previous entry.
With arg, goes up ARG entries. Repeated, goes up so many times. May be
intermixed with \\[bibtex-pop-next] (bibtex-pop-next)."
(interactive "p")
@@ -3573,10 +3576,9 @@ bibtex-clean-entry-hook are called with region narrowed to entry."
(defun bibtex-fill-entry ()
"Fill current entry.
Realigns entry, so that every field starts on a separate line. Field
-names appear in column bibtex-field-indentation, field text starts in
+names appear in column `bibtex-field-indentation', field text starts in
column bibtex-text-indentation and continuation lines start here, too.
-If bibtex-align-at-equal-sign is non-nil, equal signs are aligned as
-well."
+If `bibtex-align-at-equal-sign' is non-nil, align equal signs also."
(interactive "*")
(let ((pnt (copy-marker (point)))
(end (copy-marker (bibtex-end-of-entry))))
@@ -3623,10 +3625,9 @@ well."
(goto-char pnt)))
(defun bibtex-reformat (&optional additional-options called-by-convert-alien)
- "Reformats entries in buffer or region.
-Refills all entries. With prefix argument, read options for
-reformatting entries from minibuffer. With double prefix argument,
-reuse previous answers (if any) again.
+ "Reformat all BibTeX entries in buffer or region.
+With prefix argument, read options for reformatting from minibuffer.
+With C-u C-u prefix argument, reuse previous answers (if any) again.
If mark is active it reformats entries in region, if not in whole buffer."
(interactive "*P")
(let* ((pnt (point))
@@ -3732,8 +3733,7 @@ If mark is active it reformats entries in region, if not in whole buffer."
"Converts an alien BibTeX buffer to be fully usable by BibTeX mode.
If a file doesn't confirm with some standards used by BibTeX mode,
some of the high-level features of BibTeX mode won't be available.
-This function tries to convert current buffer to confirm with these
-standards.
+This function tries to convert current buffer to confirm with these standards.
With prefix argument DO-ADDITIONAL-REFORMATTING
non-nil, read options for reformatting entries from minibuffer."
(interactive "*P")