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How to add a reftex-default-bibliography to latex as a local variable?

I have a main reftex-default-bibliography but I want to use a sepecific bib file in my tex file. I am using Emacs-AucTeX-RefTeX. At the end of my Tex file I wrote:

%%% Local Variables:
%%% reftex-default-bibliography: "~/texmf/tex/latex/demo2LatexEmacs/mini.bib"
%%% End:

When I try to use the Ref command \cite I can only search my main bib file and not the local mini.bib file. Is there anything wrong with the way I wrote the code for the Local Variables?

Solution

  • The start of the docstring for reftex-default-bibliography says:

    List of BibTeX database files which should be used if none are specified.

    In other words, it looks like it's expecting a list, so you'll need to enclose your file in parentheses to make it a list of one element:

    %%% Local Variables:
%%% reftex-default-bibliography: ("~/texmf/tex/latex/demo2LatexEmacs/mini.bib")
%%% End: