Re: [AUCTeX] How to make biber the default?

[Ralf Angeli]

* Marcus Frings (2011-01-11) writes:

> If I press "C-c C-c bib[TAB]" everything works fine and I can choose
> between biber and BibTeX. However, is it possible that AUCTeX
> automatically detects that biber should be used instead of BibTeX and
> offers it as default command after C-c C-c, especially when its use is
> indicated and forced by explicitly enabling biber as backend in the
> document via "\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}"?
>
> Unfortunately C-c C-c always suggests BiBTeX to run next and I always
> have to manually enter "biber" to override the BiBTex default.

If you always use biber you can customize `TeX-command-BibTeX'.
Theoretically the variable could also be set automatically and
buffer-locally by a style file for biblatex.  However, the style system
does not pick up key=value options, so no "biber" style will show up
when calling `TeX-style-list'.

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Ralf