Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] RefTeX: alpha-numeric BibTeX types ignored

[Ralf Angeli]

* Eric J. Haywiser (2007-03-28) writes:

> Bibtypes in ones BibTeX database that are alpha-numeric e.g.
>
> @style3report{key,
[...]
> are valid from the BibTeX perspecitve but are ignored in RefTeX.

Hm, after looking through various styles on CTAN I failed to see those
in the wild.  Are those used in public styles?

> I 
> believe this relates to a problem with some of the regular expressions in
> reftex-cite.el which use [a-zA-Z] rather than \\w+ when matching the type.

I'd use a more conservative approach by adding 0-9 and probably - as
well as _.

-- 
Ralf