Re: [PATCH] BibTeX-mode: add eprint field as potential source for entry's URL

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Leo Stein <leo.stein@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 13:05:33 -0600
> 
> This is a fairly trivial patch: the eprint field (like doi and url fields) is 
> another field with (AFAIK) a universal
> format that maps to a URL. This makes the contents of the eprint field 
> automatically linked to the arXiv eprint
> associated to the bibtex entry.
> 
> Best,
> Leo
> 
> From 56ae41b168b75b7fc036a68e08802de3b2cb4cb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Leo C. Stein" <leo.stein@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 12:49:46 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] BibTeX-mode: add eprint field as potential source for entry's
>  URL
> 
> ---
>  lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el b/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
> index 99a97c9bb8d..c77953489a7 100644
> --- a/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
> +++ b/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
> @@ -1443,6 +1443,9 @@ Used by `bibtex-complete-crossref-cleanup' and 
> `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill'."
>  
>  (defcustom bibtex-generate-url-list
>    '((("url" . ".*:.*"))
> +    (("eprint" . ".*")
> +     "https://arxiv.org/abs/%s";
> +     ("eprint" ".*" 0))
>      (("doi" . "10\\.[0-9]+/.+")
>       "https://doi.org/%s";
>       ("doi" ".*" 0)))
> -- 
> 2.47.0
> 

Roland, any comments?