Hi, The attached patches add some useful modules for reading RFCs (and STDs) in Emacs. To take full advantage of them (e.g., read RFCs from a local directory), you need to make some straightforward modifications to your ~/.emacs file which are described in comments within the elisp modules.
-- Chris
From 169b960582996adc31ee3792195d4e0dcc62eea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:29:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add emacs-rfcview. * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-rfcview): New variable. --- gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm index f53f73b..f1b2d11 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm @@ -1507,3 +1507,30 @@ without modifier keys. It's similar to Vim's separation of commands and insertion mode. When enabled all keys are implicitly prefixed with @samp{C-} (among other helpful shortcuts).") (license license:gpl3+)))) + +(define-public emacs-rfcview + (package + (name "emacs-rfcview") + (version "0.13") + (home-page "http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs") + (source (origin + (method uncompressed-file-fetch) + (uri "http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/rfcview.el") + (sha256 + (base32 + "0ympj5rxig383zl2jf0pzdsa80nnq0dpvjiriq0ivfi98fj7kxbz")))) + (build-system emacs-build-system) + (native-inputs + `(("emacs" ,emacs-no-x))) + (synopsis "Prettify Request for Comments (RFC) documents") + (description "The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet +Society (ISOC) publish various Internet-related protocols and specifications +as \"Request for Comments\" (RFC) documents and Internet Standard (STD) +documents. RFCs and STDs are published in a simple text form. This package +provides an Emacs major mode, rfcview-mode, which makes it more pleasant to +read these documents in Emacs. It prettifies the text and adds +hyperlinks/menus for easier navigation. It also provides functions for +browsing the index of RFC documents and fetching them from remote servers or +local directories.") + (license license:gpl3+))) + -- 2.7.3
From b30527de5855d99d9187b931f4bf67058eb4439a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:29:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add emacs-ffap-rfc-space. * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-ffap-rfc-space): New variable. --- gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm index f1b2d11..fdead15 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm @@ -1534,3 +1534,28 @@ browsing the index of RFC documents and fetching them from remote servers or local directories.") (license license:gpl3+))) +(define-public emacs-ffap-rfc-space + (package + (name "emacs-ffap-rfc-space") + (version "12") + (home-page "http://user42.tuxfamily.org/ffap-rfc-space/index.html") + (source (origin + (method uncompressed-file-fetch) + (uri "http://download.tuxfamily.org/user42/ffap-rfc-space.el") + (sha256 + (base32 + "1iv61dv57a73mdps7rn6zmgz7nqh14v0ninidyrasy45b1nv6gck")))) + (build-system emacs-build-system) + (native-inputs + `(("emacs" ,emacs-no-x))) + (synopsis "Make ffap recognize an RFC with a space before its number") + (description "The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the +Internet Society (ISOC) publish various Internet-related protocols and +specifications as \"Request for Comments\" (RFC) documents. The +built-in Emacs module \"ffap\" (Find File at Point) has the ability to +recognize names at point which look like \"RFC1234\" and \"RFC-1234\" +and load the appropriate RFC from a remote server. However, it fails +to recognize a name like \"RFC 1234\". This package enhances ffap so +that it correctly finds RFCs even when a space appears before the +number.") + (license license:gpl3+))) -- 2.7.3
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