diff --git a/utils/idutils.xml b/utils/idutils.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f16304a84 --- /dev/null +++ b/utils/idutils.xml @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ + + + + Id-Utils + Id-Utils: tools for indexing + An "ID database" is a binary file containing a list of file names, a list of tokens, and a sparse matrix indicating which tokens appear in which files. + +With this database and some tools to query it, many text-searching tasks become simpler and faster. For example, you can list all files that reference a particular `#include' file throughout a huge source hierarchy, search for all the memos containing references to a project, or automatically invoke an editor on all files containing references to some function or variable. Anyone with a large software project to maintain, or a large set of text files to organize, can benefit from the ID utilities. + +Although the name `ID' is short for `identifier', the ID utilities handle more than just identifiers; they also treat other kinds of tokens, most notably numeric constants, and the contents of certain character strings. + +Programs included are: +•mkid: Creating an ID database. +•lid: Matching words and patterns. +•fid: Listing a file's tokens. +•fnid: Looking up file names. +•xtokid: Testing mkid scanners. + + + + Development + http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/id-utils.htm + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Fid + Fid: list identifiers that occur in FILENAME + + + + Fnid + Fnid: print constituent file names that match PATTERN + + + + Lid + Lid: query ID database and report results + + + + Mkid + Mkid: build an identifier database + + + + Xtokid + Xtokid: print all tokens found in a source file + + +