Re: [AUCTeX-devel] amsrefs support in reftex

[Tassilo Horn]

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm really happy I'm not the only one having difficulties with
> understanding RefTeX' code!  RefTeX is great, provides tons of useful
> features, but I find AUCTeX' code much much easier to read.

Amen.

>> So, my question is: Where should I start reading reftex's code to be
>> able to start working on amsrefs support?
>
> Your help would be very welcome.

Yes, absolutely!

> I'm not familiar with amsrefs.  What kind of features if offers?  How
> do you plan to add support in RefTeX?

I don't know it, too, but I assume that it is similar to other
enhancements to the normal reference system like cleveref or varioref.
So I'd grep the sources for "vref" and "cref" to see how their support
is implemented and then do the analogous stuff for amsrefs.

Bye,
Tassilo