Re: Breaking news: What did the IETF ever do for us? The *entire* list!

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
writes:

> Wrong.
>
> 1- it should be written in emacs lisp. 2- you should
> search words using \< \> in regexp, to avoid finding
> "isisCircLevelISPriority" when searching for
> "elisp".
>
> Something like:
>
>     (defvar *rfc-base-directory* "/data/doc/rfc/")
>
>     (defun search-rfc (word) (interactive "sRFC Search
> Word: ") (find-grep (format "find %S -name \\*.txt
> -exec grep -nHi %s {} \\;" (shell-quote-argument
> *rfc-base-directory*) (shell-quote-argument (concat
> "\\<" word "\\>")))))

This is a different function: it doesn't do the rank,
and it shows the the hit fragments. The idea is rather
a function that points you to the right document,
which you then examine peace and quiet.

By the way, *rfc-base-directory* (the asterisks) is
indeed CL (convention) syntax for global variables.

But I agree the word part is a good idea. You can do
that with the 'grep -w' option, so currently the best
version of this function is:

    search-rfc () {
        local search=$1
        files=("${(@f)$(grep -w -i $search -l /usr/share/doc/RFC/*/**.txt)}")
        for f in $files; do
            local data=`grep -w -c -H -i $search $f`
            local occs=${data##*:}
            local filename=${data%:*}
            echo $occs\\t$filename
        done | sort -n -r
    }

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