Well, it all worked once. When I closed the latex file and later this afternoon reopened it in Emacs, it didn't see the key-val labels and auctex wouldn't enter my theoremlike environments with key-val labels.
I'll make up a small working example and I'll send my .emacs file. Máté On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:56 AM Wierdl Máté <wierdlm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think at stackexchange the file you gave was the same. The possible > difference hence is the installation of the newer auctex? > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:48 AM Wierdl Máté <wierdlm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Arash, >> >> This is fantastic. I installed the new auctex via elpa and your style >> file, and now when I enter a tcolorbox environment, I get the keyval labels >> added automatically. I also see the references when I do C-c ). >> >> I'll report back if I see any bugs but I am happy! >> >> The answer you gave me a while back in stack exchange was only partially >> working, but now this is all good. Maybe you want to update there? >> >> >> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/463855/auctex-reftex-how-do-i-handle-labels-that-use-label-name-syntax-instead-of >> >> Thx, bro, >> >> Máté >> >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:17 AM Arash Esbati <ar...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Máté, >>> >>> Wierdl Máté <wierdlm...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> > I am using the tcolorbox latex package which doesn't use the usual >>> '\label' >>> > command. Instead, one has to specify a label in key-val form as in >>> > >>> > \begin{thm}[label={thm:1}]{}{} >>> > $1=2/2$ >>> > \end{thm} >>> > >>> > Is there a way to have reftex/auctex work with this variation? >>> >>> AUCTeX/RefTeX were designed for vanilla LaTeX. Additional packages are >>> supported via style files (within AUCTeX) and customization in RefTeX. >>> key-val labels are possible, but with some limitations (see below). >>> >>> > What I mean is this >>> > >>> > 1) reftex keeps track of these as labels and when I want to reference >>> this >>> > theorem, 'C-c )' will show this to me. >>> >>> You can add your environment to `reftex-label-regexps' in order to tell >>> RefTeX about `thm'. But the regexp is somewhat complicated. >>> >>> > (Until today, this was working fine, but now reftex doesn't recognize >>> > this form of a label. I have no idea what happened, what's changed. ) >>> >>> Which version of Emacs are you using? Have you updated to 27.1? >>> RefTeX's handling of key-val labels was changed there. >>> >>> > 2) auctex/reftex enters a label in this key-val form when I do 'C-c ('. >>> >>> You can teach AUCTeX to insert a key-val label when you insert the >>> environment with `C-c C-e ENV RET'; hitting `C-c (' in an environment >>> doesn't work. >>> >>> > 3) the "renumber simple labels" function works with such references. >>> >>> This is indeed a missing feature in RefTeX. I never really looked how >>> RefTeX does this, hence I can't help. >>> >>> Long time ago, I started writing a support file for tcolorbox's theorems >>> library. That unfinished work is attached. Set the variable >>> `TeX-style-private' to a directory of your choice, e.g.: >>> >>> (setq TeX-style-private >>> (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/auctex-style")) >>> >>> save the file there and open your .tex file. Also hit `C-c C-n' to >>> parse your document. Maybe you can report back if it works. >>> >>> Best, Arash >>> >>