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Long overdue merge. Don't require `compile' since it seems unnecessary. For all internal variables and functions the docstring comments have been converted into proper docstrings (bibtex-maintainer-address, bibtex-maintainer-salutation) (bibtex-version): Remove support for bug reporting. (bibtex-field-delimiters, bibtex-entry-delimiters) (bibtex-sort-ignore-string-entries, bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries) Replace make-variable-buffer-local by make-local-variable for (bibtex-entry-format): New tag `required-fields'. (bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries): New var. (bibtex-sort-entry-class, bibtex-sort-entry-class-alist): New vars. (bibtex-predefined-month-strings, bibtex-predefined-strings): Make into alists with pairs (abbreviation expansion). (bibtex-autokey-titleword-change-strings) (bibtex-autokey-transcriptions): Make into alists. Add new replacement pairs. (bibtex-autokey-use-crossref): New var. Replace bibtex-autokey-year-use-crossref-entry because updated code for autokey generation handles crossrefs independently of particular fields. (bibtex-reference-key, bibtex-mode-syntax-table): Remove = because it can't be part of a string's key. (bibtex-complete-key-cleanup): New var. (bibtex-complete): Merge bibtex-complete-string and bibtex-complete-key into it (and bind to M-tab). (bibtex-valid-entry-re, bibtex-any-valid-entry-re) (bibtex-valid-entry-whitespace-re, bibtex-empty-field-re) (bibtex-quoted-string-re): New vars. (bibtex-field-name-for-parsing): Don't make-variable-buffer-local. (zmacs-regions): Declare to quieten the byte-compiler. (bibtex-comment-start): Don't include the space. (bibtex-font-lock-syntactic-keywords): New var. (bibtex-font-lock-keywords): Remove the entry for @Comment. (bibtex-parse-field-string): Merge the functionality of bibtex-parse-field-string-braced, bibtex-parse-quoted-string and bibtex-parse-field-string-quoted. (bibtex-search-forward-field-string): Remove. (bibtex-parse-association): Use when. (bibtex-parse-field-name): Use when. (bibtex-parse-field-text): Use when and cond. (bibtex-parse-field): Use let. (bibtex-search-forward-field, bibtex-search-backward-field): Make bound optional, use let, setq, and cddr. (bibtex-start-of-field, bibtex-start-of-name-in-field) (bibtex-end-of-name-in-field): Use nth. (bibtex-name-in-field, bibtex-text-in-field-bounds) (bibtex-text-in-field, bibtex-type-in-head, bibtex-key-in-head) (bibtex-text-in-string): New functions. (bibtex-reference-key-in-string): New fun. Merge of bibtex-start-of-reference-key-in-string and bibtex-end-of-reference-key-in-string. (bibtex-parse-string-prefix): Use let and when. (bibtex-parse-string-postfix): Use when. (bibtex-search-forward-string, bibtex-search-backward-string): Use save-excursion and setq. (bibtex-member-of-regexp): Use let. (bibtex-assoc-of-regexp): Use caar und let. (bibtex-skip-to-valid-entry): Return buffer position. (bibtex-map-entries): Use save-excursion. (bibtex-progress-message): Simplify. (bibtex-search-entry): Use skip-chars-forward, when, save-match-data. (bibtex-move-outside-of-entry): Handle the case that point is before first entry. (bibtex-enclosing-field): Use save-excursion, when. (bibtex-format-field-delimiters): Merge into bibtex-format-entry. (bibtex-enclosing-entry-maybe-empty-head): Simplify. (bibtex-format-entry): Simplify. Handle new tag required-fields of bibtex-entry-format. (bibtex-autokey-abbrev): Accept negative values of len. (bibtex-autokey-get-field, bibtex-autokey-demangle-title): New funs. (bibtex-autokey-get-namefield, bibtex-autokey-get-namelist) (bibtex-autokey-get-yearfield-digits, bibtex-autokey-get-yearfield) (bibtex-autokey-get-titlestring): Remove. (bibtex-autokey-get-names): Simplify. (bibtex-autokey-get-titles): Rename to bibtex-autokey-get-title. (bibtex-autokey-demangle-name): Simplify, avoid error messages. (bibtex-generate-autokey): Simplify. (bibtex-parse-keys): Simplify, use push. (bibtex-parse-strings): New fun similar to bibtex-parse-keys. (bibtex-string-files-init): New fun. (bibtex-parse-buffers-stealthily): Use bibtex-parse-keys, bibtex-string-files-init and bibtex-parse-strings. (bibtex-complete): Rename to bibtex-complete-internal, use push, bibtex-reference-key-in-string, no sorting. (bibtex-complete-string-cleanup): New fun, displays expansion of completed strings. (bibtex-choose-completion-string): New fun. Required for choose-completion-string-functions. (bibtex-do-auto-fill): Remove. Set fill-prefix in bibtex-mode. (bibtex-pop): Simplify. (bibtex-mode): Move setting of bibtex-string to bibtex-parse-strings. Set choose-completion-string-functions. (bibtex-print-help-message,bibtex-make-field, bibtex-end-of-entry) (bibtex-count-entries): Simplify. (bibtex-entry-index, bibtex-lessp): New funs for generalized sorting scheme of indices, see bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries. (bibtex-sort-buffer): Use bibtex-lessp for sorting. (bibtex-find-crossref, bibtex-find-entry): New funs. (bibtex-find-entry-location): Rename to bibtex-prepare-new-entry, use bibtex-lessp, Simplify. (bibtex-validate): Simplify. Fixe bug of internal variable questionable-month. (bibtex-remove-OPT-or-ALT): Use when. (bibtex-remove-delimiters, bibtex-kill-field, bibtex-kill-entry) (bibtex-clean-entry, bibtex-fill-entry, bibtex-reformat): Simplify. (bibtex-convert-alien): Use deactivate-mark rather than the non-existent bibtex-mark-active variable. (bibtex-complete-string, bibtex-complete-key): Merge into new `smart' defun bibtex-complete. (bibtex-String): Update for new sorting scheme, distinguish empty and non-empty key strings.

.TH EMACSCLIENT 1
.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.SH NAME
emacsclient \- tells a running Emacs to visit a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B emacsclient
.I "[options] files ..."
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page documents briefly the
.BR emacsclient
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
.PP
.B emacsclient 
works in conjunction with the built-in server of Emacs.
.PP
You typically do not call 
.B emacsclient
directly.  Instead, you set the environment variable EDITOR
to 
.B emacsclient
and let programs like 'vipw' or 'bug' or anything run
it for you, which will use an existing Emacs to visit the file.

For
.B emacsclient 
to work, you need an already running Emacs with a server.  Within Emacs, call 
the function
`server-start'.  (Your `.emacs' file can do this automatically if you
add the expression `(server-start)' to it.)  

When you've finished editing the buffer, type `C-x #'
(`server-edit').  This saves the file and sends a message back to the
`emacsclient' program telling it to exit.  The programs that use
`EDITOR' wait for the "editor" (actually, `emacsclient') to exit.  `C-x
#' also checks for other pending external requests to edit various
files, and selects the next such file.

If you set the variable `server-window' to a window or a frame, `C-x
#' displays the server buffer in that window or in that frame.

.SH OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
.TP
.B \-n, \-\-no-wait
returns
immediately without waiting for you to "finish" the buffer in Emacs.
.TP
.B \-e, \-\-eval
do not visit files but instead evaluate the arguments as Emacs
Lisp expressions.
.TP
.B \-a, \-\-alternate-editor=EDITOR
if the Emacs server is not running, run the specified editor instead.
This can also be specified via the `ALTERNATE_EDITOR' environment variable.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-display=DISPLAY
tell the server to display the files on the given display.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The program is documented fully in
.IR "Using Emacs as a Server"
available via the Info system.
.SH BUGS
If there is no running Emacs server, 
.B emacsclient 
cannot launch one. I use a small Perl script instead of raw 
.B emacsclient
to do it (it works only with systems which have BSD sockets, which is fine
for Debian GNU/Linux).
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
.SH COPYING
This manual page is in the public domain.