vim-rfc is a plugin for easy querying of the RFC database and loading RFC/STD documents into a Vim buffer.
It's mostly written in Ruby.
$ gem install nokogiri
..is really simple.
Query the database: :RFC <case-insensitive regexp>
Rebuild cache and query the database: :RFC! <case-insensitive regexp>
A new window with all found matches will be shown. Now you can simply use <cr>
to open the entry.
You can also open by RFC id. E.g. if one of the matches is "RFC123", you can enter "123" to open it.
If you don't want to open anything, hit q.
NOTE: Since regular expressions are used, ":RFC .*" will list documents. Makes it easy to search.
If you use this plugin for the first time it downloads an index file from the internet. To parse that XML file a SAX parser, nokogiri, is used which is a event-driven XML parser written in C.
The parse tree is saved in a Ruby hash and written to a cachefile in YAML format. The file is located in ~/.vim-rfc.yml.
If you issue a query, the cachefile will be used for the lookup. The resulting hash will be provided back to the Vim environment.
At the end the index file will be removed, since it's not needed anymore.
If you use the plugin for the second time, the cachefile will be used right away and downloading the 8 MiB index will be omitted.
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