RefTeX is a feature of the emacs plugin AUCTeX, providing an easy way to navigate through your documents. It features an interactive table of contents with optional display of labels and citations.

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Hide/show individual chapters/sections/… in the RefTeX TOC buffer

RefTeX/AucTeX allow to display the maximum level of toc entries displayed in the ‘toc’ buffer. Is it also possible to hide(collapse)/show(expand) individual chapters and sections in the ‘toc’ buffer? ...
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RefTeX doesn't turn on automatically when loading AUCTeX after upgrade to TeX Live 2011

Has anyone had this issue? I can't sort out why this would occur but I didn't change anything in the setup. If I call it manually and turn on reftex-mode it works fine.
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RefTeX won't find my .bib file in local library tree

RefTeX gives out the following error when trying to insert a citation: No valid bibliography in this document, and no default available I keep a master .bib file in ...
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Problem with tilde in \bibliography using BibTeX and RefTeX

I have a problem using a tilde in the \bibliography{}. Consider the following code \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \cite{ref09:man} \bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{~/bug.bib} ...
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How to create label based on filename with reftex?

I'm using reftex under emacs. In my document, my label policy is the following : \label{<buffer name>:<env>:<key>} for example \label{derivability:thm:Rolle} Is there a way to ...
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Reftex \cite command binding [closed]

I have a computer where the char [ is made with AltGr+è so I can't use the command Ctrl+[ of RefTeX. Is there a solution to this?
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Renaming label names in AucTex to recover ordered sequence

By rearranging (copy-and-pasting) math environments the automatically RefTeX generated label numbers \begin{align} \label{eq:5} ... \end{align} texttexttext... \begin{align} \label{eq:3} ...
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Setting up RefTeX with biblatex citation commands

How do I setup RefTeX with biblatex's citation commands? In Workflow for managing references? Seamus describes a workflow with RefTeX and mentions that it wouldn't be too tricky to add \autocite ...
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Emacs, RefTeX and Cleveref – can they work together?

Trying to look for an answer in the net yielded only one questions and one answer which I could neither understand nor use. On tex.stackexchange I found only this question which was answered but I'm ...
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Enable parentheses bib entry with RefTeX

I have built my .bib file using parentheses, like this: @ARTICLE(Campbell2006, author="Campbell, K. and McKay, M.D. and Williams, B.J.", title="Sensitivity Analysis when Model Outputs are Functions", ...
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reference to a new environment using multiple-argument with RefTeX

I've created my own environment, called int-interface, which accept 3 args: \begin{int-interface}{mod}{intName}{other stuff} ... \end{int-interface} Now I would like to use RefTeX to add reference ...
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Empty table of contents for a .dtx file in reftex [closed]

When I use it on a .dtx file, RefTeX shows me an empty table of contents. What can I do about it? EDIT: I think I know why this happens: RefTeX ignores all the comments in the file, which is what one ...
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Unable to reference new environments with RefTeX

I was trying to add new environments to AUCTeX doing what the RefTeX's manual says, so I added the following to my .emacs: (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) (setq reftex-label-alist ...
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RefTeX how to search for multiple articles to be included in a single cite macro

The RefTeX manual clearly describes how to mark multiple entries in a search buffer an insert them into a single \cite command, but how can you get the search buffer to contain results from multiple ...
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AUCTeX: How to enable auto expansion of sub and superscript in custom math environment

With help from the question How to add custom math-environments I taught AUCTeX that IEEEeqnarray and its starred counterpart are math environments. I added the following to my .emacs ;; teach auctex ...
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How to include date for each item in *RefTeX Select*?

With RefTeX C-c [ invokes reftex-citation which first asks for a citation format (what citation macro to use, e.g. \cite or \footcite), then it asks for a regex to search the bibliography database and ...
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Cross References using multiple documents

I'm trying to solve a problem that's come up in producing a large document that I'm breaking up into smaller ones. The basic structure is this. A main document (main.tex) that includes formatting ...
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How to define file input commands with optional arguments?

So here is the situation : I wanted latex to read some commands when I include another file, and for that I defined a new \include command like this : \newcommand{\foo}[1]{} ...
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Creating a Keyboard Shortcut in Emacs for a Command in Auctex

I have created a custom command in the command list in Auctex. I want to be able to set it to a key binding like the View command which is C-c C-v. I know how to set global key bindings in the .emacs. ...
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Is there a LaTeX editor for Windows with an equivalent to RefTeX ?

I am currently using TexMaker on Windows to write my LaTeX documents. However, I would be very interested in a feature like RefTex (emacs module for bibtex) that would allow me to search directly in ...
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RefTex won't detect my .bib file [closed]

I'm using emacs+AUCTeX+RefTeX and I have a problem with C-c [, namely, it doesn't open a list of matches from my .bib file. In more details, I have the following in my preamble: ...
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Default bibliography database path in reftex

I just discovered reftex and am very happy with it, including the manual. However, I am not too happy with how the path to the bibliography file is set and would like to change it, but haven't found ...