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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