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As stated on the reftex documentation “Note that this is automatically done by the ‘amsmath.el’ style file of AUCTEX, see Section 7.8.2, page 38 – so if you use AUCTEX, this configuration will not be necessary.” but my problem is that C-c ) which inserts a reference gives me the style dialogue, and I select \vref, but then it inserts a \eqref. It’s making me crazy. I have no idea how to debug and fix this, my lisp-fu is very poor.

My document uses the amsmath, varioref, and cleveref packages.

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  • Welcome to TeX.SE! Have you tried to change the code line (setq reftex-label-alist ’((nil ?e nil "~\\eqref{%s}" nil nil))) in amsmath.el to, say, (setq reftex-label-alist ’((nil ?e nil "~\\vref{%s}" nil nil)))? – Mico Nov 10 '14 at 19:39
  • Possible duplicate of Cross-ref an equation using RefTeX, AUCTeX and cleveref – giordano Nov 11 '14 at 00:33
  • @Mico: Why is amsmath.el overriding a custom set variable?! grrr – zbeekman Nov 11 '14 at 14:31
  • You're asking the wrong person... – Mico Nov 11 '14 at 14:34
  • OK, I have little idea how I fixed this, because I was mucking around in the customization menus of AUCTeX and refTeX, but now when I select varioref style in the interactive reftex menu, it actually works and inserts \vref instead of \eqref. Also, I had some \newtheorem declarations before \usepackage{cleveref} but I think that was an unrelated issue. I may try to dig deeper to see what I changed that fixed it, but I’m pretty swamped at the moment so I’m not sure if I’ll ever get to this. Thanks for your help. – zbeekman Nov 11 '14 at 14:54
  • EDIT: Nope, it’s not fixed… equations are still forced to be \eqref but other entities like theorems use the correct \vref macro. I’ll work on applying the patch from Emacs trunk and/or then muck with amsmath.el – zbeekman Nov 11 '14 at 15:24

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So @giordano was at least partially correct, this is closely related to Cross-ref an equation using RefTeX, AUCTeX and cleveref and more specifically the bug fixed by this patch

On Mac OS X, in order to fix it, using Emacs 24.3 (9.0) I did the following:

Sudo Emacs /Applications/Emacs.app//Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/reftex-ref.el.gz

Then within emacs I manually edited lines 836-837, deleting what had been there,

(while (string-match "\\(\\\\ref\\)[ \t]*{" fmt) (setq fmt (replace-match refstyle t t fmt 1)))

with:

(cond ((while (string-match "\\(\\\\ref\\)[ \t]*{" fmt) (setq fmt (replace-match refstyle t t fmt 1)))) ((string-match "\\(\\\\[[:alpha:]]+\\)[ \t]*{" fmt) (setq fmt (replace-match refstyle t t fmt 1))))

Next, I saved it and ran

M-x byte-compile

then closed and reopened my other Emacs session.

I hope others find this useful.

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