Re: [AUCTeX] Citation completion

[Chris Mears]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> How do you insert \cite?  With `C-c RET cite RET'?  And then you get
> an "Add key:" prompt?  And there completion does not list the BibTeX
> entry?  If you can answer all of these questions with yes, then this
> is normal AFAICS.  Completion in this case only takes into account
> \bibitem entries of a `thebibliography' environment.  Admittedly the
> description of `TeX-arg-cite' in the manual is misleading here.

Yes to all those questions.  This behaviour might be normal, but I am
sure that in the past I have been able to complete keys from bibtex
files.

> May I suggest to use RefTeX for your citations?

RefTeX seems excellent; thanks for the recommendation.  I will use it
from now on.

Thanks for your help.