(define-mail-abbrev): Renamed from define-mail-alias.
[bpt/emacs.git] / lisp / mail / mailalias.el
CommitLineData
6594deb0
ER
1;;; mailalias.el --- expand mailing address aliases defined in ~/.mailrc.
2
3a801d0c
ER
3;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1987 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
e5167999 5;; Maintainer: FSF
fd7fa35a 6;; Keywords: mail
e5167999 7
80a677d9
JA
8;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
9
10;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
e5167999 12;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
80a677d9
JA
13;; any later version.
14
15;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18;; GNU General Public License for more details.
19
20;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
22;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
23
e41b2db1
ER
24;;; Commentary:
25
26;; Basic functions for defining and expanding mail aliases.
27;; These seal off the interface to the alias-definition parts of a
28;; .mailrc file formatted for BSD's Mail or USL's mailx.
29
e5167999 30;;; Code:
80a677d9 31
c2db7f31
RS
32(defvar mail-aliases t
33 "Alias of mail address aliases,
34or t meaning should be initialized from `~/.mailrc'.")
35
80a677d9
JA
36;; Called from sendmail-send-it, or similar functions,
37;; only if some mail aliases are defined.
38(defun expand-mail-aliases (beg end &optional exclude)
39 "Expand all mail aliases in suitable header fields found between BEG and END.
96846422
RS
40Suitable header fields are `To', `Cc' and `Bcc' and their `Resent-' variants.
41Optional second arg EXCLUDE may be a regular expression defining text to be
42removed from alias expansions."
80a677d9
JA
43 (if (eq mail-aliases t)
44 (progn (setq mail-aliases nil) (build-mail-aliases)))
45 (goto-char beg)
46 (setq end (set-marker (make-marker) end))
47 (let ((case-fold-search nil))
48 (while (let ((case-fold-search t))
6f8c78e1 49 (re-search-forward "^\\(to\\|cc\\|bcc\\|resent-to\\|resent-cc\\|resent-bcc\\):" end t))
80a677d9
JA
50 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
51 (let ((beg1 (point))
52 end1 pos epos seplen
53 ;; DISABLED-ALIASES records aliases temporarily disabled
54 ;; while we scan text that resulted from expanding those aliases.
55 ;; Each element is (ALIAS . TILL-WHEN), where TILL-WHEN
56 ;; is where to reenable the alias (expressed as number of chars
57 ;; counting from END1).
58 (disabled-aliases nil))
59 (re-search-forward "^[^ \t]" end 'move)
60 (beginning-of-line)
61 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
62 (setq end1 (point-marker))
63 (goto-char beg1)
64 (while (< (point) end1)
65 (setq pos (point))
66 ;; Reenable any aliases which were disabled for ranges
67 ;; that we have passed out of.
68 (while (and disabled-aliases (> pos (- end1 (cdr (car disabled-aliases)))))
69 (setq disabled-aliases (cdr disabled-aliases)))
70 ;; EPOS gets position of end of next name;
71 ;; SEPLEN gets length of whitespace&separator that follows it.
72 (if (re-search-forward "[ \t]*[\n,][ \t]*" end1 t)
73 (setq epos (match-beginning 0)
74 seplen (- (point) epos))
75 (setq epos (marker-position end1) seplen 0))
76 (let (translation
77 (string (buffer-substring pos epos)))
78 (if (and (not (assoc string disabled-aliases))
79 (setq translation
80 (cdr (assoc string mail-aliases))))
81 (progn
82 ;; This name is an alias. Disable it.
83 (setq disabled-aliases (cons (cons string (- end1 epos))
84 disabled-aliases))
85 ;; Replace the alias with its expansion
86 ;; then rescan the expansion for more aliases.
87 (goto-char pos)
88 (insert translation)
89 (if exclude
90 (let ((regexp
91 (concat "\\b\\(" exclude "\\)\\b"))
92 (end (point-marker)))
93 (goto-char pos)
94 (while (re-search-forward regexp end t)
95 (replace-match ""))
96 (goto-char end)))
97 (delete-region (point) (+ (point) (- epos pos)))
98 (goto-char pos))
99 ;; Name is not an alias. Skip to start of next name.
100 (goto-char epos)
101 (forward-char seplen))))
102 (set-marker end1 nil)))
103 (set-marker end nil)))
104
105;; Called by mail-setup, or similar functions, only if ~/.mailrc exists.
106(defun build-mail-aliases (&optional file)
1ddea2ab 107 "Read mail aliases from `~/.mailrc' and set `mail-aliases'."
80a677d9
JA
108 (setq file (expand-file-name (or file "~/.mailrc")))
109 (let ((buffer nil)
110 (obuf (current-buffer)))
111 (unwind-protect
112 (progn
113 (setq buffer (generate-new-buffer "mailrc"))
114 (buffer-disable-undo buffer)
115 (set-buffer buffer)
116 (cond ((get-file-buffer file)
117 (insert (save-excursion
118 (set-buffer (get-file-buffer file))
119 (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))))
120 ((not (file-exists-p file)))
121 (t (insert-file-contents file)))
122 ;; Don't lose if no final newline.
123 (goto-char (point-max))
124 (or (eq (preceding-char) ?\n) (newline))
125 (goto-char (point-min))
126 ;; handle "\\\n" continuation lines
127 (while (not (eobp))
128 (end-of-line)
129 (if (= (preceding-char) ?\\)
130 (progn (delete-char -1) (delete-char 1) (insert ?\ ))
131 (forward-char 1)))
132 (goto-char (point-min))
133 (while (or (re-search-forward "^a\\(lias\\|\\)[ \t]+" nil t)
134 (re-search-forward "^g\\(roup\\|\\)[ \t]+" nil t))
135 (re-search-forward "[^ \t]+")
136 (let* ((name (buffer-substring (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
137 (start (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point))))
138 (end-of-line)
139 (define-mail-alias
140 name
141 (buffer-substring start (point)))))
142 mail-aliases)
143 (if buffer (kill-buffer buffer))
144 (set-buffer obuf))))
145
146;; Always autoloadable in case the user wants to define aliases
147;; interactively or in .emacs.
7229064d 148;;;###autoload
80a677d9 149(defun define-mail-alias (name definition)
96846422 150 "Define NAME as a mail alias that translates to DEFINITION.
80a677d9
JA
151This means that sending a message to NAME will actually send to DEFINITION.
152DEFINITION can be one or more mail addresses separated by commas."
153 (interactive "sDefine mail alias: \nsDefine %s as mail alias for: ")
154 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
155 (if (eq mail-aliases t)
156 (progn
157 (setq mail-aliases nil)
158 (if (file-exists-p "~/.mailrc")
159 (build-mail-aliases))))
aa228418
JB
160 ;; Strip leading and trailing blanks.
161 (if (string-match "^[ \t]+" definition)
162 (setq definition (substring definition (match-end 0))))
163 (if (string-match "[ \t]+$" definition)
164 (setq definition (substring definition 0 (match-beginning 0))))
165 (let ((first (aref definition 0))
166 (last (aref definition (1- (length definition))))
167 tem)
168 (if (and (= first last) (memq first '(?\' ?\")))
169 ;; Strip quotation marks.
170 (setq definition (substring definition 1 (1- (length definition))))
171 ;; ~/.mailrc contains addresses separated by spaces.
172 ;; mailers should expect addresses separated by commas.
173 (while (setq tem (string-match "[^ \t,][ \t,]+" definition tem))
174 (if (= (match-end 0) (length definition))
175 (setq definition (substring definition 0 (1+ tem)))
176 (setq definition (concat (substring definition
177 0 (1+ tem))
178 ", "
179 (substring definition (match-end 0))))
180 (setq tem (+ 3 tem)))))
80a677d9
JA
181 (setq tem (assoc name mail-aliases))
182 (if tem
183 (rplacd tem definition)
184 (setq mail-aliases (cons (cons name definition) mail-aliases)))))
6594deb0 185
e8a57935
JB
186(provide 'mailalias)
187
6594deb0 188;;; mailalias.el ends here