"Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes: >> 2. In addition, since the symbols in org-bibtex-types are keywords, the >> completions are in the form ":article", ":book", etc. Might I ask why >> everything is org-bibtex-type is a keyword? Could we use strings or >> plain symbols instead? (Note: I haven't read the code carefully >> enough to see if there is a reason.) > > I tend to prefer keywords for items which are primarily used as keys > (e.g., for alist lookup w/assoc), I like that keywords are only interned > once and are clearly not variables or functions, however you're right > that it may add some extra complexity to this code. > > I've changed the code which prompts for fields so that it now strips the > leading ":" from the keyword names, leading to nicer prompts. >
Thanks for the fixes! My chief interest in using strings instead of keywords is to make it easier to generate the value of bibtex-entry-field-alist from org-bibtex-types and org-bibtex-fields. But if I'm already going to go the trouble of rearranging the lists, changing the keywords to strings shouldn't be too much trouble. :) Best, Matt
