Does Emacs support editing bibliography files for biblatex?

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Emacs includes bibtex-mode for editing bibliography files used by BibTeX. Is there a way to make it support the bibliography files used by biblatex?

N.N. · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-21T09:10:11.870

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Since Emacs 24.1 bibtex-mode supports biblatex:

* BibTeX mode now supports biblatex. Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.

To use it you can for example set it as a file variable to bibliography files by adding the following to their first line:

-*- mode:bibtex; bibtex-dialect: biblatex -*-

edited Oct 21 '12 at 09:10

answered Oct 20 '12 at 21:09

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On a side note AUCTeX support for biblatex and biber is enhanced with version 11.87. – N.N. Dec 13 '12 at 07:32
How did I miss this until now?!! This is great. – jon May 18 '13 at 19:25
It seems that the above does not work and that you have to say -*- mode:bibtex; eval: (bibtex-set-dialect 'biblatex); -*- instead – Andrew Swann Sep 29 '14 at 09:37
You could also add (setq bibtex-set-dialect 'biblatex) to your init.le file. – Adam May 14 '17 at 14:39

Does Emacs support editing bibliography files for biblatex?

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