Re: Patch for Re: bibtex-mode and "format region" incredibly slow

[John Owens]

Awesome. That patch worked great. Kindly consider adopting it for
good. 

Another difference between 21.3 and the CVS version is sorting
behavior. In 21.3 if you "sort region" in bibtex-mode it just sorts
it, no questions asked. In the CVS version it errors with
"bibtex-sort-buffer: You must choose a sorting scheme". 

To choose a sorting scheme you must set
bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries. This does not seem intuitive to me. If
a user wants to sort manually but NOT maintain sorted entries (as I
can do in 21.3), that's not possible unless this variable is set. It
would seem to me that bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries should be t or
nil and bibtex-sorting-scheme should be what b-m-s-e is now (either
"plain", "crossref", or "entry-class", and perhaps defaulting to
"plain").

JDO