ietf layer

The IETF layer collects various useful packages for participating in the Internet Engineering Task Force (https://www.ietf.org).

Support for fetching and downloading IETF documents is added through the ietf-docs package. The IETF docs package adds support for fetching and loading IETF documents based on the name of a document (usually under the emacs point). For example if the point is anwhere on the text RFC781 and one invokes the ietf-docs-open-at-point the package will fetch the document to a local cache (if not present) and view it. This works for the 3 standard document names, STDXXX, RFCXXX and draft-xxxx-yyy.

Support for viewing IETF documents is added through the IRFC minor mode (irfc-mode). The IRFC minor mode improves the display and formatting of IETF documents using the well known IETF document structure. Additionally it creates hyperlink overlays for references within the document.

Support for writing IETF documents using org mode is added using the RFC Org Mode Exporter (ox-rfc) package.

To use the ietf layer add it to your ~/.spacemacs

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(ietf))

By default fetched IETF documents are stored in a subdirectory of the spacemacs-cache-directory. To override this location you can set the ietf-docs-cache variable.

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(
  (ietf :variables
        ietf-docs-cache "~/Downloads/ietf-docs-cache")))