[AUCTeX-devel] Biber support in Auctex

[Philip Kime]

Greetings,
  I'm the current developer of biber, which is the main backend of the biblatex 
package. I was wondering about how desirable it seems to add biber support to 
auctex? biblatex/biber use is currently rapidly expanding since biber was added 
to TeXLive and I think it's fairly fair to say that biblatex/biber is set to 
become the default for users doing bibliographies in LaTeX in the future since 
its current and planned feature set is certainly beyond anything that can be 
done in plain bibtex. This seems to me to make it at least attractive to have 
AucTeX support biber natively. I have tried to keep the biber warnings/errors 
format the same as bibtex in the main so it's possible to add auctex support to 
some extent by defining a few variables. This works reasonably but it would be 
better to have it properly integrated with auctex. This would require some 
message parsing, the ability to pass certain flags automatically to biber would 
also be nice. I'm afraid I'm a fairly amateur lisp programmer these days and 
all of my "spare" time for programming is spent on biber anyway.

PK
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Dr Philip Kime