%%name: idutils

%%short-description: Tools for indexing.
 
%%full-description: A package of language independent tools that indexes
program identifiers, literal numbers, or words of human-readable
text. Through an "ID database," a binary file containing a list of
filenames, a list of tokens, and a simple matrix indicating which
tokens appear in which files, text-searching tasks become simpler and
faster. 

The ID utilities handle more than just identifiers; they also
treat other kinds of tokens, including numeric constants, and the
contents of certain character strings.

Database queries can be issued from the command-line, or from within
emacs, serving as an augmented tags facility.

Programs included are:	       
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mkid: (id-utils)mkid invocation.        Creating an ID database.
* lid: (id-utils)lid invocation.        Matching words and patterns.
* fid: (id-utils)fid invocation.        Listing a file's tokens.
* fnid: (id-utils)fnid invocation.      Looking up file names.
* xtokid: (id-utils)xtokid invocation.  Testing mkid scanners.


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%%category: editing, word-processing, administration, development

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Greg McGary  <gkm@ascend.com>

%%interface: Interactive, command line

%%updated:  15 Feb 2000

%%keywords: Writing, index, text, editing, word-processing, identifiers, tokens

%%programs: mkid, lid, fid, xtokid, fnid

%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.fsf.org/software/idutils/idutils.html

%%support:

%%doc: User manual included

%%developers: Greg McGary <gkm@ascend.com>

%%contributors: Tom Horsley <Tom.Horsley@mail.hcsc.com>, Francois
Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>

%%sponsors:

%%source: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu

%%debian: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/libs/id-utils.html

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%%version: 3.2 released 06 Aug 1996

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%%bug-list: bug-idutils@gnu.org










 





