;;;; dired-lisp.el - emulate ls completely in Emacs Lisp. $Revision: 1.2 $ ;;;; Copyright (C) 1991 Sebastian Kremer ;;;; READ THE WARNING BELOW BEFORE USING THIS PROGRAM! ;;;; Useful if you cannot afford to fork Emacs on a real memory UNIX, ;;;; under VMS, or if you don't have the ls program. ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to ;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ;;;; WARNING: ;;;; Sometimes I get an internal Emacs error: ;;;; Signalling: (wrong-type-argument natnump #) ;;;; Sometimes emacs just crashes with a fatal error. ;;; RESTRICTIONS: ;;;; Always sorts by name (ls switches are completely ignored for now) ;;;; Cannot display date of file, displays a fake date "Jan 00 00:00" instead ;;;; Only numeric uid/gid ;;;; Loading ange-ftp breaks it ;;;; It is surprisingly fast, though! ;;;; TODO: ;;;; Recognize at least some ls switches: l R g F i (require 'dired) ; we will redefine this function: (defun dired-ls (file &optional switches wildcard full-directory-p) "dired-lisp.el's version of dired-ls." ; "Insert ls output of FILE, optionally formatted with SWITCHES. ;Optional third arg WILDCARD means treat FILE as shell wildcard. ;Optional fourth arg FULL-DIRECTORY-P means file is a directory and ;switches do not contain `d'. ; ;SWITCHES default to dired-listing-switches." (or switches (setq switches dired-listing-switches)) (if wildcard (error "Cannot handle wildcards in lisp emulation of `ls'.")) (if full-directory-p (let* ((dir (file-name-as-directory file)) (start (length dir)) (sum 0)) (insert "total \007\n") ; fill in afterwards (insert (mapconcat (function (lambda (short) (let* ((fil (concat dir short)) (attr (file-attributes fil)) (size (nth 7 attr))) ;;(debug) (setq sum (+ sum size)) (dired-lisp-format ;;(file-name-nondirectory fil) ;;(dired-make-relative fil dir) ;;(substring fil start) short attr switches)))) (directory-files dir) "")) (save-excursion (search-backward "total \007") (goto-char (match-end 0)) (delete-char -1) (insert (format "%d" sum))) ) ;; if not full-directory-p, FILE *must not* end in /, as ;; file-attributes will not recognize a symlink to a directory ;; must make it a relative filename as ls does: (setq file (file-name-nondirectory file)) (insert (dired-lisp-format file (file-attributes file) switches))) ) (defun dired-lisp-format (file-name file-attr &optional switches) (let ((file-type (nth 0 file-attr))) (concat (nth 8 file-attr) ; permission bits " " (dired-lisp-pad (nth 1 file-attr) -3) ; no. of links ;; numeric uid/gid are more confusing than helpful ;; Emacs should be able to make strings of them " " (dired-lisp-pad (nth 2 file-attr) -6) ; uid " " (dired-lisp-pad (nth 3 file-attr) -6) ; gid " " (dired-lisp-pad (nth 7 file-attr) -8) ; size in bytes ;; file-attributes's time is in a braindead format ;; Emacs should have a ctime function " " "Jan 00 00:00 " ; fake time file-name (if (stringp file-type) ; is a symbolic link (concat " -> " file-type) "") "\n" ))) ;; format should really do anything printf can!! (defun dired-lisp-pad (arg width &optional pad-char) "Pad ARG to WIDTH, from left if WIDTH < 0. Non-nil third arg optional PAD-CHAR defaults to a space." (or pad-char (setq pad-char ?\040)) (if (integerp arg) (setq arg (int-to-string arg))) (let (l pad reverse) (if (< width 0) (setq reverse t width (- width))) (setq l (length arg) pad (- width l)) (if (> pad 0) (if reverse (concat (make-string pad pad-char) arg) (concat arg (make-string pad pad-char))) arg)))