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diff --git a/gnu/packages/idutils.scm b/gnu/packages/idutils.scm index 16ccd48854..11dd6ea4d4 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/idutils.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/idutils.scm @@ -43,22 +43,9 @@ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/") (synopsis "Identifier database utilities") (description - "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.") + "ID Utils provides tools to create an index if textual tokens used in a +list of file names and to then query that index. Thus, it allows the user +to, for example, find all the uses of a particular function in all files of a +large programming project. In addition to handling textual tokens, it can +also handle numeric constants and the contents of character strings.") (license gpl3+))) |