START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * ID utilities: (idutils). Indexing and searching utilities. * mkid: (idutils)mkid invocation. Creating an ID database. * lid: (idutils)lid invocation. Matching words and patterns. * fid: (idutils)fid invocation. Listing a file's tokens. * gid: (idutils)gid invocation. Token-based grep. * fnid: (idutils)fnid invocation. Looking up file names. * xtokid: (idutils)xtokid invocation. Testing mkid scanners. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY ID utilities ************ This manual documents version 4.6 of the ID utilities. 1 Introduction ************** 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 (described in this manual), 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. Thus, this manual will use the word "token" as a term that is inclusive of identifiers, numbers and strings. There are several programs in the ID utilities family: `mkid' scans files for tokens and builds the ID database file. `lid' queries the ID database for tokens, then reports matching file names or matching lines. `fid' lists all tokens recorded in the database for given files, or tokens common to two files. `fnid' matches the file names in the database, rather than the tokens. `xtokid' extracts raw tokens--helps with testing of new `mkid' scanners. In addition, the ID utilities have historically provided several query programs which are specializations of `lid': `gid' (alias for `lid -R grep') lists all lines containing the requested pattern. `eid' (alias for `lid -R edit') invokes an editor on all files containing the requested pattern, and if possible, initiates a text search for that pattern. `aid' (alias for `lid -ils') treats the requested pattern as a case-insensitive literal substring. Please report bugs to `bug-idutils@gnu.org'. Remember to include the version number, machine architecture, input files, and any other information needed to reproduce the bug: your input, what you expected, what you got, and why it is wrong. Diffs are welcome, but please include a description of the problem as well, since this is sometimes difficult to infer. *Note Bugs: (gcc)Bugs. 2 Quick Start Procedure *********************** Unpack the distribution. Type `./configure' Type `make' Type `make install' as a user with the appropriate privileges (e.g., `bin' or perhaps even `root'). Type `cd /usr/include; mkid' to build an ID database covering all of the system header files. Type `lid FILE', then `gid strtok', then `aid stdout'. You have just built, installed and used the most common commands of the GNU ID utilities. If you ever need help remembering which system header files contain a particular declaration, or reference a particular symbol, you'll want to keep the ID file you built in `/usr/include' for later use. If your working directory is elsewhere at the time, simply provide the `-f /usr/include' option to `lid' (*note Reading options::). 3 Common command-line options ***************************** Certain options, and regular expression syntax, are shared by various groupings of the ID utilities. We describe these in the sections below, rather than repeating them for each program. 3.1 Options Common to All Programs ================================== `--help' Print a usage message listing all available options, then exit successfully. `--version' Print the version number, then exit successfully. 3.2 Options for Programs that Read ID Databases =============================================== `-f FILENAME' `--file=FILENAME' FILENAME is the ID database to read when processing queries. At present, only a single `--file' option is processed, but in future releases, more than one ID database may be named on the command line. `$IDPATH' `IDPATH' is an environment variable that contains a colon-separated list of ID database names. If this variable is present, and no `--file' options are presented on the command line, the ID databases named in `IDPATH' are implied.(1) If no ID databases are specified either on the command line or via the `IDPATH' environment variable, then the ID utilities search for a file named `ID' in the current working directory, and then in successive parent directories. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) At present, this feature isn't fully implemented, since only the first of a list of ID database names is processed. 3.3 Options for Programs that Write ID Databases ================================================ `-o FILENAME' `--output=FILENAME' The `--output' option names the file in which to write a new ID database. If no `--output' (or `--file') option is present, an output file named `ID' is implied. `-f FILENAME' `--file=FILENAME' This is a synonym for `--output' 3.4 Options for Programs that Walk File and Directory Trees. ============================================================ The programs `mkid' and `xtokid' accept the names of files and directories on the command line. Files are scanned if there is a scanner available and enabled for the file's source language. Directories are recursively descended, searching for files whose names match the rules listed in the _language map_ file (*note Language map::). The following option controls the file tree walker: `-p NAMES' `--prune=NAMES' One or more file or directory names may appear in NAMES. The file tree walker will stop short at these files and directories and their contents will not be scanned. `--files0-from=FILE' Rather than processing files named on the command line, process those named in file FILE; each name is terminated by a null byte. This is useful when the list of file names is so long that it may exceed a command line length limitation. One way to produce a list of null-byte-terminated file names is with GNU `find', using its `-print0' predicate. Do not specify any FILE on the command line when using this option. 3.5 Options for Programs that List File Names ============================================= The programs `lid' and `fnid' can print lists of file names as the result of queries. The following option controls how these lists are formatted: `-S STYLE' `--separator=STYLE' STYLE may be one of `braces', `space' or `newline'. The STYLE of `braces' means that file names with common directory prefix and common suffix are printed using the shell's brace notation in order to compress the output. For example, `../src/foo.c ../src/bar.c' can be printed in brace notation as `../src/{foo,bar}.c'. The STYLEs of `space' and `newline' mean that file names are separated spaces or by newlines, respectively. If the list of files is being printed on a terminal, brace notation is the default. If not, file names are separated by spaces if the KEY is included in the output, and by newlines the KEY STYLE is `none' (*note lid invocation::). 3.6 Options for Programs that Scan Source Files =============================================== `mkid' and `xtokid' walk file trees, select source files by name, and extract tokens from source files. They accept the following options: `-m MAPFILE' `--lang-map=MAPFILE' MAPFILE contains rules for determining the source languages from file names *Note Language map::. `-i LANGUAGES' `--include=LANGUAGES' The `--include' option names LANGUAGES whose source files should be scanned and incorporated into the ID database. By default, all languages known to the ID utilities are enabled. `-x LANGUAGES' `--exclude=LANGUAGES' The `--exclude' option names LANGUAGES whose source files should NOT be scanned. The default list of excluded languages is empty. Note that only one of `--include' or `--exclude' may be specified on the command line for a single run. `-l LANGUAGE:OPTIONS' `--lang-option=LANGUAGE:OPTIONS' Language-specific scanners also accept options. LANGUAGE denotes the desired scanner, and OPTION is the command-line option that should be passed through to it. For example, to pass the -X FOO -COKE-BOTTLE options to the scanner for the language SWIZZLE, use one of the next two forms, or a mixture of both: $ mkid -l swizzle:"-x foo" -l swizzle:--coke-bottle $ mkid --lang-option=swizzle:"-x foo" --lang-option=swizzle:--coke-bottle Note the use of quotes when passing an option with arguments. Quoting is optional for options without arguments. Use the `--help' option to see the command-line option summary for each language. To determine which tokens to extract from a file and store in the database, `mkid' calls a "scanner"; we say a scanner "recognizes" a particular language. Scanners for several languages are built-in to `mkid'; you can add your own scanners as well, as explained in *note Defining scanners::. The ID utilities determine which scanner to use for a particular file by consulting the language-map file. Scanners for several are already built-in to the ID utilities. You can see which languages have built-in scanners, and examine their language-specific options by invoking `mkid --help' or `xtokid --help'. 3.6.1 Mapping file names to source languages -------------------------------------------- The file `id-lang.map', installed by default in `$(prefix)/share/id-lang.map', contains rules for mapping file names to source languages. Each rule comprises three parts: a shell GLOB pattern, a language name, and language-specific scanner options. The special pattern `**' denotes the default source language. This is the language that's assigned to file names that don't match any other pattern. The special pattern `***' should be followed by a file name. The named file should contain more language-map rules and is included at this point. The order in which rules are presented in a language-map file is significant. This order influences the order in which files are displayed as the result of queries. For example, the distributed language-map file places all rules for C .H files ahead of .C files, so that in general, declarations will precede definitions in query output. The same thing is done for C++ and its many different source file name extensions. Here is a pared-down version of the `id-lang.map' file distributed with the ID utilities: # Default language ** IGNORE # Although this is listed first, # the default language pattern is # logically matched last. # Backup files *~ IGNORE *.bak IGNORE *.bk[0-9] IGNORE # SCCS files [sp].* IGNORE # list header files before code files *.h C *.h.in C *.H C++ *.hh C++ *.hpp C++ *.hxx C++ # list C `meta' files next *.l C *.lex C *.y C *.yacc C # list C code files after header files *.c C *.C C++ *.cc C++ *.cpp C++ *.cxx C++ # list assembly language after C *.[sS] asm --comment=; *.asm asm --comment=; # [nt]roff *.[0-9] roff *.ms roff *.me roff *.mm roff # TeX and friends *.tex TeX *.ltx TeX *.texi texinfo *.texinfo texinfo 3.6.2 C Cpp Java Language Scanner --------------------------------- The C scanner is the most commonly used. Files that match the glob pattern `*.h', `*.c', as well as `yacc' files that match `*.y' or `*.yacc', and `lex' files that match `*.l' or `*.lex', are processed with this scanner. Scanner-specific options (Note, these options are presented WITHOUT the required `-l' or `--lang-option=' prefix): `-k CHARACTER-CLASS' `--keep=CHARACTER-CLASS' Consider the characters in CHARACTER-CLASS as valid constituents of identifier names. For example, if you are indexing C code that contains `$' in some of its identifiers, you can include these by using `--lang-option=C:--keep=$', or `-l C:"-k $"' (if you don't like to type so much). `-i CHARACTER-CLASS' `--ignore=CHARACTER-CLASS' Consider the characters in CHARACTER-CLASS as valid constituents of identifier names, but discard all tokens containing these characters. For example, if some C code has identifiers containing `$', but you don't want these cluttering up your ID database, use `--lang-option=C:--ignore=$', or the terser equivalent `-l C:"-i $"'. `-u' `--strip-underscore' Strip one leading underscore from C identifiers encapsulated as character strings. This option is useful if you are indexing C code that contains symbol-table name strings for systems that prepend an underscore to external symbols. By default, the leading underscore is retained. 3.6.3 Assembly Language Scanner ------------------------------- Assembly languages use a variety of commenting conventions, and allow a variety of special characters to _dirty up_ local symbols, preventing name space conflicts with symbols defined by higher-level languages. Also, some compilation systems prepend an underscore to external symbols. The options listed below are designed to address these differences. `-c CHARACTER-CLASS' `--comment=CHARACTER-CLASS' The characters in CHARACTER-CLASS are considered left delimiters for comments that extend until the end of the current line. `-k CHARACTER-CLASS' `--keep=CHARACTER-CLASS' Consider the characters of CHARACTER-CLASS as valid constituents of identifier names. For example, if you are indexing assembly code that prepends `.' to assembler directives, and prepends `%' to register names, you can keep these characters in the tokens by specifying `--lang-option=asm:--keep=.%', or `-l asm:"-k .%"'. `-i CHARACTER-CLASS' `--ignore=CHARACTER-CLASS' Consider the characters of CHARACTER-CLASS as valid constituents of identifier names, but discard all tokens containing these characters. For example, if you don't want to clutter your ID database with assembler directives that begin with a leading `.' or with assembler labels that contain `@', use `--lang-option=asm:--ignore=.@', or `-l asm:"-i .@"'. `-u' `--strip-underscore' Strip one leading underscore from identifiers. This option is useful if your compilation system prepends an underscore to external symbols. By stripping the underscore, you can canonicalize such names and bring them into conformance the way they are expressed in the C language. By default, the leading underscore is retained. `-n' `--no-cpp' Do not recognize C preprocessor directives. By default, such lines are handled in the same way as they are by the C language scanner. 3.6.4 Text Scanner ------------------ The plain text scanner is intended for human-language documents, or as the scanner of last resort for files that have no scanner that is more specific. It is customizable to the extent that character classes can be designated as token constituents or as token delimiters. The default token constituents are the alpha-numerics; all other characters are considered token delimiters. `-i CHARACTER-CLASS' `--include=CHARACTER-CLASS' Include characters belonging to CHARACTER-CLASS in tokens. `-x CHARACTER-CLASS' `--exclude=CHARACTER-CLASS' Exclude characters belonging to CHARACTER-CLASS from tokens, i.e., treat them as token delimiters. 3.6.5 Perl Scanner ------------------ (EXPERIMENTAL) The perl scanner is intended for perl-language documents. Tokens are all words, Perl Keywords are included. Comments & string declarations are ignored, as well as the documentation. It is customizable to the extent that character classes can be designated as token constituents or as token delimiters. The default token constituents are the alpha-numerics; all other characters are considered token delimiters. Perl support has been originally written by Madhu Gogulapati. This scanner is considered experimental; please report any problems you should encounter to `bug-idutils@gnu.org' . `-i CHARACTER-CLASS' `--include=CHARACTER-CLASS' Include characters belonging to CHARACTER-CLASS in tokens. `-x CHARACTER-CLASS' `--exclude=CHARACTER-CLASS' Exclude characters belonging to CHARACTER-CLASS from tokens, i.e., treat them as token delimiters. `-d' `--dtags' Include tokens from the documentation. By default, the tokens in the documentation are ignored. 3.6.6 Lisp Scanner ------------------ (EXPERIMENTAL) The lisp scanner has been originally written by Edouard G. Parmelan, and after many years it was posthumously integrated with the main idutils code. It is intended for Lisp and Emacs Lisp files (.lisp, .el, .elc, .scm). No options are currently available for this scanner. This scanner is considered experimental; please report any problems you should encounter to `bug-idutils@gnu.org' . 3.6.7 Defining New Scanners in the Source Code ---------------------------------------------- To add a new scanner in source code, you should add a new section to the file `scanners.c'. It might be easiest to clone one of the existing scanners and modify it as necessary. For the hypothetical language FOO, you must define the functions `get_token_foo', `parse_args_foo', `help_me_foo', as well as the tables `long_options_foo' and `args_foo'. If your scanner is modeled after one of the existing scanners, you'll also need a character-attribute table `ctype_foo'. This is not a terribly difficult programming task, but it requires recompiling and installing the new version of `mkid' and `xtokid'. You should use `xtokid' to test the operation of the new scanner. Once these functions and tables are ready, add function prototypes and an entry to the `languages_0' table near the beginning of the file. Be warned that the existing scanners are built for speed, not elegance or readability. You might wish to create a new scanner that's easier to read and understand if you don't feel that speed is so important. 4 `mkid': Creating an ID Database ********************************* `mkid' builds an ID database. It accepts the names of files and/or directories on the command line, selects files that have an enabled scanner, then extracts and stores tokens from those files. The resulting ID database is architecture- and byte-order-independent so it can be shared among all systems. The primary virtues of `mkid' are speed and high capacity. The size of the source trees it can index is limited only by available system memory. `mkid''s indexing algorithm is very space-efficient and exhibits excellent locality-of-reference, and so is capable of operating with a working-set size that is only half the size of its virtual address space. A typical UNIX-like operating system with 16 megabytes of system memory should be able to build an ID database covering approximately 12,000-14,000 source files totaling approximately 50-100 Megabytes. A 66 MHz 486 computer can build such a large ID database in approximately 10-15 minutes. In a future release, `mkid' will be able to incrementally update an ID database much faster than it can build one from scratch. Until this feature becomes available, it might be a good idea to schedule a `cron' job to regularly update large ID databases during off-hours. `mkid' writes the ID file, therefore it accepts the `--output' (and `--file') options as described in *note Writing options::. `mkid' extracts tokens from source files, therefore it accepts the `--lang-map', `--include', `--exclude', and `--lang-option' options, as well as the language-specific scanner options, all of which are described in *note Extraction options::. `mkid' walks file trees, therefore it handles file and directory names on its command line and the `--prune' option as described in *note Walker options::. In addition, `mkid' accepts the following command-line options: `-s' `--statistics' `mkid' reports statistics about resource usage at the end of its run. `-v' `--verbose' `mkid' reports statistics about each file as it is scanned, and about the resource usage of its indexing algorithm at regular intervals. 5 `lid': Querying an ID Database by Token ***************************************** The `lid' program accepts PATTERNS on the command line which it matches against the tokens stored in an ID database. The interpretation of a PATTERN is determined by the makeup of the PATTERN string itself, or can be overridden by command-line options. If a PATTERN contains regular expression meta-characters, it is used to perform a regular-expression substring search. If no such meta-characters are present, PATTERN is used to perform a literal word search. (By default, all searches are sensitive to alphabetic case.) If no PATTERN is supplied on the command line, `lid' lists every entry in the ID database. `lid' reads the ID database, therefore it accepts the `--file' option, and consults the `IDPATH' environment variable, as described in *note Reading options::. `lid' lists file names, therefore it accepts the `--separator' option, as described in *note File listing options::. In addition, `lid' accepts the following command-line options: `-i' `--ignore-case' Ignoring differences in alphabetic case between the PATTERN and the tokens in the ID database. `-l' `--literal' Match PATTERN as a literal string. Use this option if PATTERN contains regular-expression meta-characters, but you don't wish to perform a regular-expression search. `-r' `--regexp' Match PATTERN as an _extended_ regular expression(1). Use this option if no regular-expression expression meta-characters are present in PATTERN, but you wish to force a regular-expression search (note: in this case, a _literal substring_ search might be faster). `-w' `--word' Match PATTERN using a word-delimited (non substring) search. This is the default for literal searches. `-s' `--substring' Match PATTERN using a substring (non word-delimited) search. This is the default for regular expression searches. `-k STYLE' `--key=STYLE' STYLE can be one of `token', `pattern' or `none'. This option controls how the subject of the query is presented. This is best illustrated by example: $ lid --key=token '^dest.' destaddr libsys/memcpy.c destination libsys/regex.c destlst libsys/rx.c destpos libsys/rx.c destset libsys/rx.h libsys/rx.c $ lid --key=pattern '^dest.' ^dest. libsys/rx.h libsys/{memcpy,regex,rx}.c $ lid --key=none '^dest.' libsys/rx.h libsys/{memcpy,regex,rx}.c When `--key' is either `token' or `pattern', the first column of output is a TOKEN or PATTERN, respectively. When `--key' is `none', neither of these is printed, and the file name list begins immediately. The default is `token'. `-R STYLE' `--result=STYLE' STYLE can be one of `filenames', `grep', `edit' or `none'. This option controls how the value associated with the query's KEY presented. When STYLE is `filenames', a list of file names is printed (this is the default). When STYLE is `grep', the lines that match PATTERN are printed in the same format as `egrep -n'. When STYLE is `edit', the file names are passed to an editor, and if possible PATTERN is passed as an initial search string (*note eid invocation::). When STYLE is `none', the file names are not processed in any way. This can be useful if you wish to see what tokens match a PATTERN, but don't care about where they reside. `-d' `-o' `-x' These options may be used in any combination to specify the radix of numeric matches. `-d' allows matching on decimal numbers, `-o' on octal numbers, and `-x' on hexadecimal numbers. Any combination of these options may be used. The default is to match all three radixes. `-F RANGE' `--frequency=RANGE' Match tokens whose occurrence count falls in RANGE. RANGE may be expressed as a single number N, or as a range N`..'M. Either limit of the range may be omitted (e.g., `..'M, or N..`..'). If the lower limit N is omitted, it defaults to `1'. If the upper limit is omitted, it defaults in the present implementation to `65535', the maximum value of an unsigned 16-bit integer. Particularly useful queries are `lid -F1', which helps locate identifiers that are defined but never used, or are used but never defined. Similarly, `lid -F2' can help find functions that possess a prototype declaration and a definition, but are never called. `-a NUMBER' `--ambiguous=NUMBER' List identifiers (not numbers) that are ambiguous for the first NUMBER characters. This feature might be in useful when porting programs to ancient pea-brained compilers that don't support long identifier names. However, the best long-term option is to set such systems on fire. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Extended regular expressions are the same as those accepted by `egrep'. 5.1 Aliases for Specialized `lid' Queries ========================================= Historically, the ID utilities have provided several query interfaces which are specializations of `lid' (*note lid invocation::). `gid' (alias for `lid -R grep') lists all lines containing the requested pattern. `eid' (alias for `lid -R edit') invokes an editor on all files containing the requested pattern, and optionally initiates a text search for that pattern. `aid' (alias for `lid -ils') treats the requested pattern as a case-insensitive literal substring. 5.2 GNU Emacs query interface ============================= The `idutils' source distribution comes with a file `idutils.el', which defines a GNU Emacs interface to `gid'. To install it, put `idutils.el' somewhere that Emacs will find it (i.e., in your `load-path') and put (autoload 'gid "idutils" nil t) in one of Emacs' initialization files, e.g., `~/.emacs'. You will then be able to use `M-x gid' to run the command. The `gid' function prompts you with the word around point. If you want to search for something else, simply delete the line and type the pattern of interest. The function then runs the `gid' program in a `*compilation*' buffer, so the normal `next-error' function can be used to visit all the places the identifier is found (*note Compilation: (emacs)Compilation.). 5.3 `eid': Invoking an Editor on Query Results ============================================== `lid -R edit' is an editing interface for the ID utilities that is most commonly used with `vi'. Emacs users should use the interface defined in `idutils.el' (*note Emacs gid interface::). The ID utilities include an alias called `eid', and for the sake of brevity, we'll use this alias for the remainder of this section. `eid' performs a `lid'-style, then asks if you wish to edit the files. If your query yields more than one line of output, you will be prompted after each line. This is the prompt you'll see: Edit? [y1-9^S/nq] You may respond with: `y' Edit all files listed. `1...9' Edit all files starting at the N + 1'st file. `/STRING or CTRL-SREGEXP' Search into the file list, and begin editing with the first file name that matches the regular expression REGEXP. `n' Don't edit any files. If another line of query output is pending, advance to that line, for which another `Edit?' prompt will appear. `q' Quit--don't edit any files, and don't process any more lines of query output. Here is an example: prompt$ eid FILE \^print FILE {ansi2knr,fid,filenames,idfile,idx,lid,misc,...}.c Edit? [y1-9^S/nq] n ^print {ansi2knr,fid,getopt,getopt1,lid,mkid,regex,scanners}.c Edit? [y1-9^S/nq] 2 This will start editing at `getopt'.c. `eid' invokes the editor defined by the environment variable `VISUAL'. If `VISUAL' is undefined, it uses the environment variable `EDITOR' instead. If `EDITOR' is undefined, it defaults to `vi'. It is possible for `eid' to pass the editor an initial search pattern so that your cursor will immediately alight on the token of interest. This feature is controlled by the following environment variables: `EIDARG' A printf(3) format string for the editor argument to search for the matching token. For `vi', this should be `+/%s/'. `EIDLDEL' The regular-expression meta-character(s) for delimiting the beginning of a word (the ``eid' Left DELimiter'). `eid' inserts this in front of the matching token when a word-search is desired. For `vi', this should be `\<'. `EIDRDEL' The regular-expression meta-character(s) for delimiting the end of a word (the ``eid' Right DELimiter'). `eid' inserts this in end of the matching token when a word-search is desired. For `vi', this should be `\>'. 6 `fid': Listing a file's tokens ******************************** `fid' prints the tokens found in a given file. If two file names are passed on the command line, `fid' prints the tokens that are common to both files (i.e., the _set intersection_ of the two token sets). `fid' reads the ID database, therefore it accepts the `--file' option, and consults the `IDPATH' environment variable, as described in *note Reading options::. If the standard output is attached to a terminal, the printed tokens are separated by spaces. Otherwise, the tokens are printed one per line. 7 `fnid': Looking up filenames ****************************** `fnid' queries the list of file names stored in the ID database. It accepts shell _wildcard_ patterns on the command line. If no pattern is supplied, `*' is implied. `fnid' prints the file names that match the given patterns. `fnid' prints file names, and as such accepts the `--separator' option as described in *note File listing options::. For example, the command: fnid \*.c lists all the `.c' files in the database. (The `\' here protects the `*' from being expanded by the shell.) 8 `gid': Token-based grep ************************* `gid' lists each line containing one of the specified tokens. Running `gid' is equivalent to `lid -R grep') For example, the command: gid important_variable lists each line of each file in the database that contains that token. 9 `xtokid': Testing Language Scanners ************************************* `xtokid' accepts the names of files and/or directories on the command line, then extracts and prints a stream of tokens from those files for which it has a valid, enabled scanner. This is useful primarily for debugging new `mkid' scanners (*note Defining scanners::). `xtokid' extracts tokens from source files, therefore it accepts the `--lang-map', `--include', `--exclude', and `--lang-option' options, as well as the language-specific scanner options, all of which are described in *note Extraction options::. `xtokid' walks file trees, therefore it handles file and directory names on its command line and the `--prune' option as described in *note Walker options::. The name `xtokid' indicates that it is the "eXtract TOKens ID utility". 10 Past and Future ****************** Greg McGary conceived of the ideas behind the ID utilities when he began working on the Unix kernel in 1984. He needed a navigation tool to help him find his way around the expansive, unfamiliar landscape. The first `idutils'-like tools were shell scripts, and produced an ASCII database that looks much like the output of `lid ".*"'. It took over an hour on a VAX 11/750 to build a database for a 4.1BSD derived kernel. The first version of `lid' used the UNIX system utility `look', modified to handle very long lines. In 1986, Greg rewrote the shell scripts in C to improve performance. Build times for the ID file were shortened by an order of magnitude. The ID utilities were first posted to `comp.sources.unix' in September 1987 under the name `id'. Over the next few years, several versions diverged from the original source. Tom Horsley at Harris Computer Systems Division stepped forward to take over maintenance and integrated some of the fixes from divergent versions. A first release of the renamed `mkid' version 2 was posted to `alt.sources' near the end of 1990. At that time, Tom wrote a Texinfo manual with the encouragement of the net community. (Tom especially thanks Doug Scofield and Bill Leonard whom he dragooned into helping proofread and edit--they found several problems in the initial version.) Karl Berry revamped the manual for Texinfo style, indexing, and organization in 1995. In January 1995, Greg McGary reemerged as the primary maintainer and launched development of `mkid' version 3, whose primary new feature is an efficient algorithm for building databases that is linear in both time and space over the size of the input text. (The old algorithm was quadratic in space so it was incapable of handling very large source trees.) For the first time, the code was released under the GNU Public License. In June 1996, the package was renamed again to `id-utils' and was released for the first time under FSF copyright as part of the GNU system. All programs had their command-line arguments completely revised. The `mkid' and `xtokid' programs also gained a file-tree walker, so that directory names can be passed on the command line instead of the names of every individual file. Greg reorganized and rewrote most of the Texinfo manual to reflect these changes. In 2006, Claudio Fontana modernized the build system and the code itself, and analyzed and integrated various pending patches. Package name had a minor change from `id-utils' to `idutils', to be more consistent with the other GNU package names. Future releases of `idutils' might include: an optional coupling with GNU `grep', so that `grep' can use an ID database for hints a `cscope' work-alike query interface incremental update of the ID database. Index ***** *compilation* Emacs buffer: See 5.2. (line 734) --ambiguous: See 5. (line 685) --comment: See 3.6.3. (line 402) --dtags: See 3.6.5. (line 485) --exclude <1>: See 3.6.5. (line 480) --exclude <2>: See 3.6.4. (line 454) --exclude: See 3.6. (line 240) --file <1>: See 3.3. (line 164) --file: See 3.2. (line 131) --files0-from=FILE: See 3.4. (line 186) --frequency: See 5. (line 671) --help: See 3.1. (line 119) --ignore <1>: See 3.6.3. (line 415) --ignore: See 3.6.2. (line 374) --ignore-case: See 5. (line 596) --include <1>: See 3.6.5. (line 476) --include <2>: See 3.6.4. (line 450) --include: See 3.6. (line 234) --keep <1>: See 3.6.3. (line 407) --keep: See 3.6.2. (line 366) --lang-map: See 3.6. (line 229) --lang-option: See 3.6. (line 247) --lang-option=asm:--comment: See 3.6.3. (line 402) --lang-option=asm:--ignore: See 3.6.3. (line 415) --lang-option=asm:--keep: See 3.6.3. (line 407) --lang-option=asm:--no-cpp: See 3.6.3. (line 433) --lang-option=asm:--strip-underscore: See 3.6.3. (line 424) --lang-option=asm:-c: See 3.6.3. (line 402) --lang-option=asm:-i: See 3.6.3. (line 415) --lang-option=asm:-k: See 3.6.3. (line 407) --lang-option=asm:-n: See 3.6.3. (line 433) --lang-option=asm:-u: See 3.6.3. (line 424) --lang-option=C:--ignore: See 3.6.2. (line 374) --lang-option=C:--keep: See 3.6.2. (line 366) --lang-option=C:--strip-underscore: See 3.6.2. (line 383) --lang-option=C:-i: See 3.6.2. (line 374) --lang-option=C:-k: See 3.6.2. (line 366) --lang-option=C:-u: See 3.6.2. (line 383) --lang-option=perl:--dtags: See 3.6.5. (line 485) --lang-option=perl:--exclude: See 3.6.5. (line 480) --lang-option=perl:--include: See 3.6.5. (line 476) --lang-option=perl:-d: See 3.6.5. (line 485) --lang-option=perl:-i: See 3.6.5. (line 476) --lang-option=perl:-x: See 3.6.5. (line 480) --lang-option=text:--exclude: See 3.6.4. (line 454) --lang-option=text:--include: See 3.6.4. (line 450) --lang-option=text:-i: See 3.6.4. (line 450) --lang-option=text:-x: See 3.6.4. (line 454) --literal: See 5. (line 601) --no-cpp: See 3.6.3. (line 433) --output: See 3.3. (line 158) --prune: See 3.4. (line 181) --regexp: See 5. (line 607) --result: See 5. (line 649) --separator: See 3.5. (line 204) --statistics: See 4. (line 563) --strip-underscore <1>: See 3.6.3. (line 424) --strip-underscore: See 3.6.2. (line 383) --substring: See 5. (line 620) --verbose: See 4. (line 568) --version: See 3.1. (line 123) --word: See 5. (line 615) -a: See 5. (line 685) -c: See 3.6.3. (line 402) -d <1>: See 5. (line 663) -d: See 3.6.5. (line 485) -F: See 5. (line 671) -f <1>: See 3.3. (line 164) -f: See 3.2. (line 131) -i <1>: See 5. (line 596) -i <2>: See 3.6.5. (line 476) -i <3>: See 3.6.4. (line 450) -i <4>: See 3.6.3. (line 415) -i <5>: See 3.6.2. (line 374) -i: See 3.6. (line 234) -k <1>: See 5. (line 625) -k <2>: See 3.6.3. (line 407) -k: See 3.6.2. (line 366) -l <1>: See 5. (line 601) -l: See 3.6. (line 247) -l asm:--comment: See 3.6.3. (line 402) -l asm:--dtags: See 3.6.5. (line 485) -l asm:--ignore: See 3.6.3. (line 415) -l asm:--keep: See 3.6.3. (line 407) -l asm:--no-cpp: See 3.6.3. (line 433) -l asm:--strip-underscore: See 3.6.3. (line 424) -l asm:-c: See 3.6.3. (line 402) -l asm:-d: See 3.6.5. (line 485) -l asm:-i: See 3.6.3. (line 415) -l asm:-k: See 3.6.3. (line 407) -l asm:-n: See 3.6.3. (line 433) -l asm:-u: See 3.6.3. (line 424) -l C:--ignore: See 3.6.2. (line 374) -l C:--keep: See 3.6.2. (line 366) -l C:--strip-underscore: See 3.6.2. (line 383) -l C:-i: See 3.6.2. (line 374) -l C:-k: See 3.6.2. (line 366) -l C:-u: See 3.6.2. (line 383) -l perl:--exclude: See 3.6.5. (line 480) -l perl:--include: See 3.6.5. (line 476) -l perl:-i: See 3.6.5. (line 476) -l perl:-x: See 3.6.5. (line 480) -l text:--exclude: See 3.6.4. (line 454) -l text:--include: See 3.6.4. (line 450) -l text:-i: See 3.6.4. (line 450) -l text:-x: See 3.6.4. (line 454) -m: See 3.6. (line 229) -n: See 3.6.3. (line 433) -o <1>: See 5. (line 663) -o: See 3.3. (line 158) -p: See 3.4. (line 181) -R: See 5. (line 649) -r: See 5. (line 607) -s <1>: See 5. (line 620) -s: See 4. (line 563) -S: See 3.5. (line 204) -u <1>: See 3.6.3. (line 424) -u: See 3.6.2. (line 383) -v: See 4. (line 568) -w: See 5. (line 615) -x <1>: See 5. (line 663) -x <2>: See 3.6.5. (line 480) -x <3>: See 3.6.4. (line 454) -x: See 3.6. (line 240) alphabetic case, ignoring differences in: See 5. (line 596) ambiguous identifier names, finding: See 5. (line 685) architecture-independence: See 4. (line 528) assembler scanner: See 3.6.3. (line 393) assembly language scanner: See 3.6.3. (line 393) beginning-of-word editor argument: See 5.3. (line 796) Berry, Karl: See 10. (line 889) bugs, reporting: See 1. (line 75) C scanner, predefined: See 3.6.2. (line 356) common command-line options: See 3. (line 111) creating databases: See 4. (line 528) cron: See 4. (line 545) cscope: See 10. (line 921) databases, creating: See 4. (line 528) eid: See 5.3. (line 742) EIDARG: See 5.3. (line 792) EIDLDEL: See 5.3. (line 796) EIDRDEL: See 5.3. (line 802) Emacs interface to gid: See 5.2. (line 720) end-of-word editor argument: See 5.3. (line 802) exclude languages: See 3.6. (line 240) fid: See 6. (line 811) file name separator: See 3.5. (line 204) file tree pruning: See 3.4. (line 181) filenames, matching: See 7. (line 826) fnid: See 7. (line 826) future: See 10. (line 921) gid: See 8. (line 844) gid Emacs function: See 5.2. (line 730) grep: See 10. (line 921) help, online: See 3.1. (line 119) history: See 10. (line 875) Horsley, Tom: See 10. (line 889) ID database file name <1>: See 3.3. (line 158) ID database file name: See 3.2. (line 131) ID database, definition of: See 1. (line 19) ID file format: See 4. (line 528) idutils.el interface to Emacs: See 5.2. (line 720) ignoring differences in alphabetic case: See 5. (line 596) include languages: See 3.6. (line 234) introduction: See 1. (line 19) language map file: See 3.6. (line 229) language-specific option: See 3.6. (line 247) languages_0: See 3.6.7. (line 505) left delimiter editor argument: See 5.3. (line 796) Leonard, Bill: See 10. (line 889) lisp scanner: See 3.6.6. (line 492) load-path: See 5.2. (line 720) look and mkid 1: See 10. (line 875) matching filenames: See 7. (line 826) McGary, Greg: See 10. (line 875) mkid progress: See 4. (line 568) numeric matches, specifying radix of: See 5. (line 663) overview: See 1. (line 19) perl scanner: See 3.6.5. (line 461) radix of numeric matches, specifying: See 5. (line 663) right delimiter editor argument: See 5.3. (line 802) scanners: See 3.6. (line 263) scanners, defining in source code: See 3.6.7. (line 505) scanners.c: See 3.6.7. (line 505) Scofield, Doug: See 10. (line 889) search for token, initial: See 5.3. (line 792) searching files, grep: See 8. (line 844) sharing ID files: See 4. (line 528) single matches, showing: See 5. (line 671) statistics: See 4. (line 563) text scanner: See 3.6.4. (line 441) tokens common to two files: See 6. (line 811) tokens in a file: See 6. (line 811) version number, finding: See 3.1. (line 123) Table of Contents ***************** ID utilities 1 Introduction 2 Quick Start Procedure 3 Common command-line options 3.1 Options Common to All Programs 3.2 Options for Programs that Read ID Databases 3.3 Options for Programs that Write ID Databases 3.4 Options for Programs that Walk File and Directory Trees. 3.5 Options for Programs that List File Names 3.6 Options for Programs that Scan Source Files 3.6.1 Mapping file names to source languages 3.6.2 C Cpp Java Language Scanner 3.6.3 Assembly Language Scanner 3.6.4 Text Scanner 3.6.5 Perl Scanner 3.6.6 Lisp Scanner 3.6.7 Defining New Scanners in the Source Code 4 `mkid': Creating an ID Database 5 `lid': Querying an ID Database by Token 5.1 Aliases for Specialized `lid' Queries 5.2 GNU Emacs query interface 5.3 `eid': Invoking an Editor on Query Results 6 `fid': Listing a file's tokens 7 `fnid': Looking up filenames 8 `gid': Token-based grep 9 `xtokid': Testing Language Scanners 10 Past and Future Index