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wais.el - GNU Emacs interface to WAIS wais.el is a GNU emacs lisp file that allows people to use WAIS through GNU Emacs. It relies on the WAIS version 8 distribution, particularly on a shell program called waisq. wais.el has a number of configuration variables that must be set properly at a site upon installation of the WAIS software. (defvar *wais-top-directory* "/proj/wais/wais/") (defvar waisq-program (concat *wais-top-directory* "bin/waisq") "Location of the waisq executable. This comes in the bin directory of the wais release") (defvar waisindex-program (concat *wais-top-directory* "bin/waisindex") "Location of the waisindex executable. This comes in the bin directory of the wais release") (defvar *common-source-directory* (concat *wais-top-directory* "wais-sources/") "Where the common sources for you site live. nil if there are none") (defvar *wais-question-directory* "~/wais-questions/") (defvar *wais-source-directory* "~/wais-sources/") (defvar *wais-document-directory* "~/wais-documents/") (defvar wais-tmp-directory "/tmp/") (defvar wais-version 8) The first four variables are site specififc, and should be modified according to your site. The GNU Emacs interface to WAIS (refered to as wais-gmacs from now on) is based on the WAIS Station built for the Apple Macintosh, and xwais, which you'll find in this distribution. To a very large degree the applications can be used interchangably, as they all use the same basic file structure. The principle functions in wais-gmacs are: wais: Find a wais question and go to it. First tries to find the question named Quick, then any wais question, finally it creates a Quick question, prompting for search words and source. wais-select-question: Make a menu of questions so you can select one. Type ? after invocation to get help on commands available. Type q immediately to make the question menu go away. wais-select-source: Make a menu of sources so you can select one. Type ? after invocation to get help on commands available. Type q immediately to make the source menu go away. wais-create-question: Create a new Question named NAME wais-create-source: Create a new Source and a database to go with it wais-novice: Create and run the 'Quick' novice question, and pop up the novice Help There are three new "modes" created by gmacs-wais: 1. waisq-mode 2. waisk-mode 3. waisd-mode Each mode has some special keybindings associated with it. waisq-mode is the pricipal mode for manipulating WAIS questions. The keybindings for waisq-mode are: Movement commands: C-n Move to next document, or arg documents. C-p Move to previous document, or arg documents. e,f,v Edit, Find or View the current document (all are synonymous). n Edit to next document, or arg documents. p Edit to previous document, or arg documents. space Scroll document in other window forward. delete Scroll document backward. B Go to the best line in the document C-l Refresh Display and reset Question Window. Sources: A Add a source to the question. D Delete all sources from the question. Relevance Feedback: a Add the current document to the question. d Delete all relevant documents from the question. Action Commands: k Replace the 'Find documents on' words G,RET Go for it (submit the query). N Make a new question. m Toggle multiple document buffer mode. s Select another question. S Save this document to a file. ? or h Show this message (Help). q quit WaisQ, but keep the question's buffer. Q Quit WaisQ and kill this question's buffer. waisd-mode is the principal mode for viewing WAIS documents, as retrieved through a WAIS question. The keybindings for waisd-mode are: Movement commands: All the usual text-mode cursor movement work. In addition the following commands are available: B Go to the best line in the document space Scroll document forward. delete Scroll document backward. Action Commands: s Add the marked region as a section to the Relevant Documents. ? or h Show this message (Help). q quit WaisQ, but keep the question's buffer. Q Quit WaisQ and kill this question's buffer. waisk-mode is the same as text-mode, but pressing RETURN will initiated the search. Some notes on retrieving and saving sources (from the directory of servers, or from the help query): If you use the S (capital-S, Save document to file) on a source, it will prompt for the name of the source file, and automatically add the .src if necessary.
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