hyphen or minus symbol breaks \cite in texcomments

[nachsommer]

If you want to cite something (via biber and biblatex) in the source code's commentaries, the \cite-command works fine:

\begin{minted}[escapeinside=||,texcomments]{java} 
    public int getRandomInt(int max) {
    
        /* This method selects a pseudo-random integer, 
          though computers don't do well with truly randomness \parencite{rubin:2011}.
         */
        int min = 1;

        // \emph{JAVA} can, however, create a pseudo random Integer by:
        Random randomInt = new Random();
        // Unfortunately, this is not serendipity \parencite{mccay-peet+toms:2017}
        return randomInt.nextInt(max - min) + min;
    }
\end{minted}

The first citation (rubin:2011) works well, the second however breaks due the "-" in the keyword "mccay-peet+toms:2017". The result in the comment shows something like this:

(mccay\unhbox \voidb@x \kern \z@ \char ‘\-peet+toms:2017)

Can anyone help with a workaround? Thanks a lot!

[muzimuzhi]

A catcode issue. For a quick workaround, you can define a macro storing cite keys containing - and use \parencite{\macro} in minted.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted}

\begin{document}
\cite{rubin:2011} and \cite{mccay-peet+toms:2017}

\def\mycite{mccay-peet+toms:2017}
\begin{minted}[escapeinside=||,texcomments]{java} 
    public int getRandomInt(int max) {
    
        /* This method selects a pseudo-random integer, 
          though computers don't do well with truly randomness \cite{rubin:2011}.
         */
        int min = 1;

        // \emph{JAVA} can, however, create a pseudo random Integer by:
        Random randomInt = new Random();
        // Unfortunately, this is not serendipity \cite{\mycite}
        return randomInt.nextInt(max - min) + min;
    }
\end{minted}

\begin{thebibliography}{00}
  \bibitem{rubin:2011}
  \bibitem{mccay-peet+toms:2017}
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

[muzimuzhi]

Seems it's fvextra that makes - active (with catcode 13). Also I find \cite{\detokenize{mccay-peet+toms:2017}} works as well.