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galdor / rfc-mode

An Emacs major mode to read and browse RFC documents.
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rephrase README such that the on-demand download is mentioned #6

Closed novoid closed 4 years ago

novoid commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for this great project!

My issue: Currently, I would need to constantly spend 466MB for the txt-files alone on my synchronized computers (or accordingly for any sub-set of RFCs, of course).

I'd like to send a letter to Santa Claus:

To me, it would be perfect when this mode uses a local copy of the total index (1.8MB) for search. When I choose to read a specific RFC, the txt-version (or PDF?) should be fetched on-demand by rfc-mode in a temporary(?) directory for reading.

Using this idea would require just the 1.8MB of the index file for searching. The files in the local cache could be either permanent (locality of reference) or removed from time to time (e.g., by using a sub-directory of /tmp/).

galdor commented 4 years ago

Hi!

In the last version, RFC documents are downloaded on-demand, so it seems your problem is solved :)

Feel free to ping me if it does not work as it should.

Regards,

-- Nicolas Martyanoff http://snowsyn.net khaelin@gmail.com

novoid commented 4 years ago

Oh I see. Awesome!

Then let's change my issue to "rephrase README such that the on-demand download is mentioned and the bulk download is marked as optional" :-)

( I knew Santa exists ...)

galdor commented 4 years ago

Good point, I'll fit it ASAP !

-- Nicolas Martyanoff http://snowsyn.net khaelin@gmail.com