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1;;; map-ynp.el --- General-purpose boolean question-asker.
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b578f267 3;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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e5167999 5;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
5027054f 6;; Maintainer: FSF
fd7fa35a 7;; Keywords: lisp, extensions
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9;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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25
26;;; Commentary:
27
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28;; map-y-or-n-p is a general-purpose question-asking function.
29;; It asks a series of y/n questions (a la y-or-n-p), and decides to
68e3e5f5 30;; apply an action to each element of a list based on the answer.
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31;; The nice thing is that you also get some other possible answers
32;; to use, reminiscent of query-replace: ! to answer y to all remaining
33;; questions; ESC or q to answer n to all remaining questions; . to answer
34;; y once and then n for the remainder; and you can get help with C-h.
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36;;; Code:
37
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38(defun map-y-or-n-p (prompter actor list &optional help action-alist
39 no-cursor-in-echo-area)
60205e0b 40 "Ask a series of boolean questions.
907482b9 41Takes args PROMPTER ACTOR LIST, and optional args HELP and ACTION-ALIST.
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43LIST is a list of objects, or a function of no arguments to return the next
44object or nil.
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9fd54390 46If PROMPTER is a string, the prompt is \(format PROMPTER OBJECT\). If not
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47a string, PROMPTER is a function of one arg (an object from LIST), which
48returns a string to be used as the prompt for that object. If the return
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49value is not a string, it may be nil to ignore the object or non-nil to act
50on the object without asking the user.
03759fe0 51
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52ACTOR is a function of one arg (an object from LIST),
53which gets called with each object that the user answers `yes' for.
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55If HELP is given, it is a list (OBJECT OBJECTS ACTION),
56where OBJECT is a string giving the singular noun for an elt of LIST;
57OBJECTS is the plural noun for elts of LIST, and ACTION is a transitive
58verb describing ACTOR. The default is \(\"object\" \"objects\" \"act on\"\).
59
60At the prompts, the user may enter y, Y, or SPC to act on that object;
61n, N, or DEL to skip that object; ! to act on all following objects;
62ESC or q to exit (skip all following objects); . (period) to act on the
63current object and then exit; or \\[help-command] to get help.
64
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65If ACTION-ALIST is given, it is an alist (KEY FUNCTION HELP) of extra keys
66that will be accepted. KEY is a character; FUNCTION is a function of one
67arg (an object from LIST); HELP is a string. When the user hits KEY,
68FUNCTION is called. If it returns non-nil, the object is considered
69\"acted upon\", and the next object from LIST is processed. If it returns
70nil, the prompt is repeated for the same object.
71
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72Final optional argument NO-CURSOR-IN-ECHO-AREA non-nil says not to set
73`cursor-in-echo-area' while prompting.
74
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75This function uses `query-replace-map' to define the standard responses,
76but not all of the responses which `query-replace' understands
77are meaningful here.
78
60205e0b 79Returns the number of actions taken."
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80 (let* ((actions 0)
81 user-keys mouse-event map prompt char elt tail def
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82 ;; Non-nil means we should use mouse menus to ask.
83 use-menus
c5068ec5 84 delayed-switch-frame
fba98516 85 (next (if (or (and list (symbolp list))
aa228418 86 (subrp list)
dbc4e1c1 87 (byte-code-function-p list)
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88 (and (consp list)
89 (eq (car list) 'lambda)))
90 (function (lambda ()
91 (setq elt (funcall list))))
92 (function (lambda ()
93 (if list
94 (progn
95 (setq elt (car list)
96 list (cdr list))
97 t)
98 nil))))))
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99 (if (listp last-nonmenu-event)
100 ;; Make a list describing a dialog box.
101 (let ((object (capitalize (nth 0 help)))
102 (objects (capitalize (nth 1 help)))
103 (action (capitalize (nth 2 help))))
104 (setq map (` (("Yes" . act) ("No" . skip) ("Quit" . exit)
105 ((, (if help (concat action " " object " And Quit")
106 "Do it and Quit")) . act-and-exit)
107 ((, (if help (concat action " All " objects)
108 "Do All")) . automatic)
109 (,@ (mapcar (lambda (elt)
230ac7f6 110 (cons (capitalize (nth 2 elt))
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111 (vector (nth 1 elt))))
112 action-alist))))
5233c7f5 113 use-menus t
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114 mouse-event last-nonmenu-event))
115 (setq user-keys (if action-alist
116 (concat (mapconcat (function
117 (lambda (elt)
118 (key-description
119 (char-to-string (car elt)))))
120 action-alist ", ")
121 " ")
122 "")
123 ;; Make a map that defines each user key as a vector containing
124 ;; its definition.
125 map (cons 'keymap
126 (append (mapcar (lambda (elt)
127 (cons (car elt) (vector (nth 1 elt))))
128 action-alist)
129 query-replace-map))))
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130 (unwind-protect
131 (progn
132 (if (stringp prompter)
133 (setq prompter (` (lambda (object)
134 (format (, prompter) object)))))
135 (while (funcall next)
136 (setq prompt (funcall prompter elt))
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137 (cond ((stringp prompt)
138 ;; Prompt the user about this object.
139 (setq quit-flag nil)
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140 (if use-menus
141 (setq def (or (x-popup-dialog (or mouse-event use-menus)
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142 (cons prompt map))
143 'quit))
144 ;; Prompt in the echo area.
145 (let ((cursor-in-echo-area (not no-cursor-in-echo-area))
146 (message-log-max nil))
147 (message "%s(y, n, !, ., q, %sor %s) "
148 prompt user-keys
149 (key-description (vector help-char)))
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150 (if minibuffer-auto-raise
151 (raise-frame (window-frame (minibuffer-window))))
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152 (setq char (read-event))
153 ;; Show the answer to the question.
154 (message "%s(y, n, !, ., q, %sor %s) %s"
155 prompt user-keys
156 (key-description (vector help-char))
157 (single-key-description char)))
158 (setq def (lookup-key map (vector char))))
159 (cond ((eq def 'exit)
160 (setq next (function (lambda () nil))))
161 ((eq def 'act)
162 ;; Act on the object.
163 (funcall actor elt)
164 (setq actions (1+ actions)))
165 ((eq def 'skip)
166 ;; Skip the object.
167 )
168 ((eq def 'act-and-exit)
169 ;; Act on the object and then exit.
170 (funcall actor elt)
171 (setq actions (1+ actions)
172 next (function (lambda () nil))))
173 ((or (eq def 'quit) (eq def 'exit-prefix))
174 (setq quit-flag t)
175 (setq next (` (lambda ()
176 (setq next '(, next))
177 '(, elt)))))
178 ((eq def 'automatic)
179 ;; Act on this and all following objects.
180 (if (funcall prompter elt)
181 (progn
182 (funcall actor elt)
183 (setq actions (1+ actions))))
184 (while (funcall next)
185 (if (funcall prompter elt)
186 (progn
187 (funcall actor elt)
188 (setq actions (1+ actions))))))
189 ((eq def 'help)
190 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*"
191 (princ
192 (let ((object (if help (nth 0 help) "object"))
193 (objects (if help (nth 1 help) "objects"))
194 (action (if help (nth 2 help) "act on")))
195 (concat
196 (format "Type SPC or `y' to %s the current %s;
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197DEL or `n' to skip the current %s;
198! to %s all remaining %s;
199ESC or `q' to exit;\n"
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200 action object object action objects)
201 (mapconcat (function
202 (lambda (elt)
203 (format "%c to %s"
204 (nth 0 elt)
205 (nth 2 elt))))
206 action-alist
207 ";\n")
208 (if action-alist ";\n")
209 (format "or . (period) to %s \
0a2eb25e 210the current %s and exit."
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211 action object))))
212 (save-excursion
213 (set-buffer standard-output)
214 (help-mode)))
215
216 (setq next (` (lambda ()
217 (setq next '(, next))
218 '(, elt)))))
219 ((vectorp def)
220 ;; A user-defined key.
221 (if (funcall (aref def 0) elt) ;Call its function.
222 ;; The function has eaten this object.
223 (setq actions (1+ actions))
224 ;; Regurgitated; try again.
225 (setq next (` (lambda ()
226 (setq next '(, next))
227 '(, elt))))))
228 ((and (consp char)
229 (eq (car char) 'switch-frame))
230 ;; switch-frame event. Put it off until we're done.
231 (setq delayed-switch-frame char)
232 (setq next (` (lambda ()
233 (setq next '(, next))
234 '(, elt)))))
235 (t
236 ;; Random char.
237 (message "Type %s for help."
238 (key-description (vector help-char)))
239 (beep)
240 (sit-for 1)
241 (setq next (` (lambda ()
242 (setq next '(, next))
243 '(, elt)))))))
244 (prompt
245 (funcall actor elt)
246 (setq actions (1+ actions))))))
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247 (if delayed-switch-frame
248 (setq unread-command-events
249 (cons delayed-switch-frame unread-command-events))))
60205e0b 250 ;; Clear the last prompt from the minibuffer.
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251 (let ((message-log-max nil))
252 (message ""))
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253 ;; Return the number of actions that were taken.
254 actions))
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255
256;;; map-ynp.el ends here