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1;;; dirtrack.el --- Directory Tracking by watching the prompt
2
3;; Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4228277d 5;; Author: Peter Breton <pbreton@i-kinetics.com>
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6;; Created: Sun Nov 17 1996
7;; Keywords: processes
8e717a45 8;; Time-stamp: <97/02/01 20:35:06 peter>
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10;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
11
12;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
13;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
14;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
15;; any later version.
16
17;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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19;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
20;; GNU General Public License for more details.
21
22;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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24;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
25;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
26
27;;; Commentary:
28
29;; Shell directory tracking by watching the prompt.
30;;
31;; This is yet another attempt at a directory-tracking package for
32;; Emacs shell-mode. However, this package makes one strong assumption:
33;; that you can customize your shell's prompt to contain the
34;; current working directory. Most shells do support this, including
35;; almost every type of Bourne and C shell on Unix, the native shells on
36;; Windows95 (COMMAND.COM) and Windows NT (CMD.EXE), and most 3rd party
37;; Windows shells. If you cannot do this, or do not wish to, this package
38;; will be useless to you.
39;;
40;; Installation:
41;;
42;; 1) Set your shell's prompt to contain the current working directory.
43;; You may need to consult your shell's documentation to find out how to
44;; do this.
45;;
46;; Note that directory tracking is done by matching regular expressions,
47;; therefore it is *VERY IMPORTANT* for your prompt to be easily
48;; distinguishable from other output. If your prompt regexp is too general,
49;; you will see error messages from the dirtrack filter as it attempts to cd
50;; to non-existent directories.
51;;
52;; 2) Set the variable 'dirtrack-list' to an appropriate value. This
53;; should be a list of two elements: the first is a regular expression
54;; which matches your prompt up to and including the pathname part.
55;; The second is a number which tells which regular expression group to
56;; match to extract only the pathname. If you use a multi-line prompt,
57;; add 't' as a third element. Note that some of the functions in
58;; 'comint.el' assume a single-line prompt (eg, comint-bol).
59;;
60;; Determining this information may take some experimentation. Setting
61;; the variable 'dirtrack-debug' may help; it causes the directory-tracking
62;; filter to log messages to the buffer 'dirtrack-debug-buffer'.
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83897674 64;; 3) Add a hook to shell-mode to enable the directory tracking:
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65;;
66;; (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
67;; (function (lambda ()
68;; (setq comint-output-filter-functions
69;; (append (list 'dirtrack)
70;; comint-output-filter-functions)))))
71;;
72;; You may wish to turn ordinary shell tracking off by calling
73;; 'shell-dirtrack-toggle' or setting 'shell-dirtrackp'.
74;;
75;; Examples:
76;;
77;; 1) On Windows NT, my prompt is set to emacs$S$P$G.
78;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1)
79;;
80;; 2) On Solaris running bash, my prompt is set like this:
81;; PS1="\w\012emacs@\h(\!) [\t]% "
82;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^\\([/~].*\\)\nemacs@[^%]+% *" 1 t)
83;;
84;; I'd appreciate other examples from people who use this package.
85
86;;; Code:
87
88(eval-when-compile
89 (require 'comint)
90 (require 'shell))
91
92(defvar dirtrack-list (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1)
93 "*List for directory tracking.
94First item is a regexp that describes where to find the path in a prompt.
95Second is a number, the regexp group to match. Optional third item is
96whether the prompt is multi-line. If nil or omitted, prompt is assumed to
97be on a single line.")
98
99(make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrack-list)
100
101(defvar dirtrack-debug nil
102 "*If non-nil, the function 'dirtrack' will report debugging info.")
103
104(defvar dirtrack-debug-buffer "*Directory Tracking Log*"
105 "Buffer to write directory tracking debug information.")
106
107(defvar dirtrackp t
108 "*If non-nil, directory tracking via 'dirtrack' is enabled.")
109
110(make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrackp)
111
112(defvar dirtrack-directory-function
113 (if (memq system-type (list 'ms-dos 'windows-nt))
114 'dirtrack-windows-directory-function
115 'dirtrack-default-directory-function)
116 "*Function to apply to the prompt directory for comparison purposes.")
117
118(defvar dirtrack-canonicalize-function
119 (if (memq system-type (list 'ms-dos 'windows-nt))
120 'downcase 'identity)
121 "*Function to apply to the default directory for comparison purposes.")
122
123(defun dirtrack-default-directory-function (dir)
124 "Return a canonical directory for comparison purposes.
125Such a directory ends with a forward slash."
126 (let ((directory dir))
127 (if (not (char-equal ?/ (string-to-char (substring directory -1))))
128 (concat directory "/")
129 directory)))
130
131(defun dirtrack-windows-directory-function (dir)
132 "Return a canonical directory for comparison purposes.
133Such a directory is all lowercase, has forward-slashes as delimiters,
134and ends with a forward slash."
135 (let ((directory dir))
136 (setq directory (downcase (replace-slash directory t)))
137 (if (not (char-equal ?/ (string-to-char (substring directory -1))))
138 (concat directory "/")
139 directory)))
140
141(defconst forward-slash (regexp-quote "/"))
142(defconst backward-slash (regexp-quote "\\"))
143
144(defun replace-slash (string &optional opposite)
145 "Replace forward slashes with backwards ones.
146If additional argument is non-nil, replace backwards slashes with
147forward ones."
148 (let ((orig (if opposite backward-slash forward-slash))
149 (replace (if opposite forward-slash backward-slash))
150 (newstring string)
151 )
152 (while (string-match orig newstring)
153 (setq newstring (replace-match replace nil t newstring)))
154 newstring))
155
156;; Copied from shell.el
157(defun dirtrack-toggle ()
158 "Enable or disable Dirtrack directory tracking in a shell buffer."
159 (interactive)
160 (setq dirtrackp (not dirtrackp))
161 (message "Directory tracking %s" (if dirtrackp "ON" "OFF")))
162
163(defun dirtrack-debug-message (string)
164 (let ((buf (current-buffer))
165 (debug-buf (get-buffer-create dirtrack-debug-buffer))
166 )
167 (set-buffer debug-buf)
8e717a45 168 (goto-char (point-max))
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169 (insert (concat string "\n"))
170 (set-buffer buf)
171 ))
172
173;;;###autoload
174(defun dirtrack (input)
175 (if (null dirtrackp)
176 nil
177 (let ((prompt-path)
178 (current-dir default-directory)
179 (matched)
8e717a45 180 (dirtrack-regexp (nth 0 dirtrack-list))
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181 (match-num (nth 1 dirtrack-list))
182 (multi-line (nth 2 dirtrack-list))
183 )
184 ;; No output?
185 (if (eq (point) (point-min))
186 nil
187 (save-excursion
8e717a45 188 (goto-char (point-max))
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189 ;; Look for the prompt
190 (if multi-line
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191 (setq matched
192 (re-search-backward
193 dirtrack-regexp
194 comint-last-output-start
195 t))
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196 (beginning-of-line)
197 (setq matched (looking-at dirtrack-regexp)))
198 ;; No match
199 (if (null matched)
200 (and dirtrack-debug
201 (dirtrack-debug-message
202 (format
203 "Failed to match regexp: %s"
204 dirtrack-regexp)))
205 (setq prompt-path
206 (buffer-substring-no-properties
207 (match-beginning match-num) (match-end match-num)))
208 ;; Empty string
209 (if (not (> (length prompt-path) 0))
210 (and dirtrack-debug
211 (dirtrack-debug-message "Match is empty string"))
212 ;; Transform prompts into canonical forms
213 (setq prompt-path (funcall dirtrack-directory-function
214 prompt-path))
215 (setq current-dir (funcall dirtrack-canonicalize-function
216 current-dir))
217 (and dirtrack-debug
218 (dirtrack-debug-message
219 (format
220 "Prompt is %s\nCurrent directory is %s"
221 prompt-path current-dir)))
222 ;; Compare them
223 (if (or (string= current-dir prompt-path)
224 (string= current-dir
225 (abbreviate-file-name prompt-path)))
226 (and dirtrack-debug
227 (dirtrack-debug-message
228 (format "Not changing directory")))
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229 ;; It's possible that Emacs will think the directory
230 ;; won't exist (eg, rlogin buffers)
231 (if (file-accessible-directory-p prompt-path)
232 ;; Change directory
233 (and (shell-process-cd prompt-path)
234 dirtrack-debug
235 (dirtrack-debug-message
236 (format "Changing directory to %s" prompt-path)))
237 (error "Directory %s does not exist" prompt-path)))
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238 )))))))
239
240(provide 'dirtrack)
241
242;;; dirtrack.el ends here