72 lines
2.3 KiB
EmacsLisp
72 lines
2.3 KiB
EmacsLisp
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;; archie.el v1.0 -- by Brendan Kehoe (brendan@cs.widener.edu)
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;;
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;; A mock-interface to Archie for Emacs. This will shave by when you need
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;; it. ARCHIE-SEZ will insert the result of the query in the current buffer,
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;; and plain ARCHIE will create a separate buffer .
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;;
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;; TODO: hack ange-ftp to use the output of archie -l, and let you select
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;; from a magic list which one you want to FTP into an Emacs buffer.
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;;
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(defvar archie-program "/usr/local/bin/archie"
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"Program that queries archie servers.")
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(defvar archie-server "archie.sura.net"
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"Server for \\[archie] searches.
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Known archie servers:
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archie.ans.net (USA [NY])
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archie.sura.net (USA [MD])
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archie.mcgill.ca (Canada)
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archie.funet.fi (Finland/Mainland Europe)
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archie.au (Australia)
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archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (Great Britain/Ireland)
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")
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(defvar archie-search-type "-e"
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"Search type for \\[archie] searches.
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Can be one of: -c for substring searches
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-e for exact matches (default)
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-r for a regexp
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-s for a case-insensitive substring search
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")
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(defun archie-sez (string)
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"Insert the results of an archie query on STRING into the current buffer.
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Uses the function `archie' for its main work."
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(interactive (list (read-string "String: " nil)))
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(archie string nil t))
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(defun archie (string &optional type inplace)
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"Look for STRING on an Archie server.
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Optional second arg TYPE is the type of search to make -- by default, it's
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`archie-search-type'. Possible values are substring, subcase (case insensitive
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substring), and regexp (a regular expression). Interactively, a prefix arg
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will make it prompt for this."
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(interactive (list (read-string "String: " nil)
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(and current-prefix-arg
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(read-string "Search type [-c/-e/-r/-s]: "
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archie-search-type))))
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(let ((buf (or inplace (get-buffer-create "*Archie*"))))
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(if inplace
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(progn
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(push-mark (point) t)
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(insert "Archie sez: \n"))
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(progn
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(pop-to-buffer buf)
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(setq buffer-read-only nil
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mode-line-process (concat ": " string)
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mode-name "Query for"
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minor-mode-alist nil)
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(erase-buffer)))
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(call-process archie-program nil buf nil
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"-h" archie-server
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(or type archie-search-type)
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string))
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(if (not inplace)
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(progn
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(setq buffer-read-only t)
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(goto-char (point-min)))))
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