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1;;; dirtrack.el --- Directory Tracking by watching the prompt
2
3;; Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5;; Author: Peter Breton
6;; Created: Sun Nov 17 1996
7;; Keywords: processes
8;; Time-stamp: <96/12/26 09:23:01 peter>
9
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
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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'.
63;;
64;; 3) Autoload directory tracking by adding the following to your .emacs:
65;;
66;; (autoload 'dirtrack "dirtrack"
67;; "Directory tracking by watching the prompt")
68;;
69;; 4) Add a hook to shell-mode to enable the directory tracking:
70;;
71;; (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
72;; (function (lambda ()
73;; (setq comint-output-filter-functions
74;; (append (list 'dirtrack)
75;; comint-output-filter-functions)))))
76;;
77;; You may wish to turn ordinary shell tracking off by calling
78;; 'shell-dirtrack-toggle' or setting 'shell-dirtrackp'.
79;;
80;; Examples:
81;;
82;; 1) On Windows NT, my prompt is set to emacs$S$P$G.
83;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1)
84;;
85;; 2) On Solaris running bash, my prompt is set like this:
86;; PS1="\w\012emacs@\h(\!) [\t]% "
87;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^\\([/~].*\\)\nemacs@[^%]+% *" 1 t)
88;;
89;; I'd appreciate other examples from people who use this package.
90
91;;; Code:
92
93(eval-when-compile
94 (require 'comint)
95 (require 'shell))
96
97(defvar dirtrack-list (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1)
98 "*List for directory tracking.
99First item is a regexp that describes where to find the path in a prompt.
100Second is a number, the regexp group to match. Optional third item is
101whether the prompt is multi-line. If nil or omitted, prompt is assumed to
102be on a single line.")
103
104(make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrack-list)
105
106(defvar dirtrack-debug nil
107 "*If non-nil, the function 'dirtrack' will report debugging info.")
108
109(defvar dirtrack-debug-buffer "*Directory Tracking Log*"
110 "Buffer to write directory tracking debug information.")
111
112(defvar dirtrackp t
113 "*If non-nil, directory tracking via 'dirtrack' is enabled.")
114
115(make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrackp)
116
117(defvar dirtrack-directory-function
118 (if (memq system-type (list 'ms-dos 'windows-nt))
119 'dirtrack-windows-directory-function
120 'dirtrack-default-directory-function)
121 "*Function to apply to the prompt directory for comparison purposes.")
122
123(defvar dirtrack-canonicalize-function
124 (if (memq system-type (list 'ms-dos 'windows-nt))
125 'downcase 'identity)
126 "*Function to apply to the default directory for comparison purposes.")
127
128(defun dirtrack-default-directory-function (dir)
129 "Return a canonical directory for comparison purposes.
130Such a directory ends with a forward slash."
131 (let ((directory dir))
132 (if (not (char-equal ?/ (string-to-char (substring directory -1))))
133 (concat directory "/")
134 directory)))
135
136(defun dirtrack-windows-directory-function (dir)
137 "Return a canonical directory for comparison purposes.
138Such a directory is all lowercase, has forward-slashes as delimiters,
139and ends with a forward slash."
140 (let ((directory dir))
141 (setq directory (downcase (replace-slash directory t)))
142 (if (not (char-equal ?/ (string-to-char (substring directory -1))))
143 (concat directory "/")
144 directory)))
145
146(defconst forward-slash (regexp-quote "/"))
147(defconst backward-slash (regexp-quote "\\"))
148
149(defun replace-slash (string &optional opposite)
150 "Replace forward slashes with backwards ones.
151If additional argument is non-nil, replace backwards slashes with
152forward ones."
153 (let ((orig (if opposite backward-slash forward-slash))
154 (replace (if opposite forward-slash backward-slash))
155 (newstring string)
156 )
157 (while (string-match orig newstring)
158 (setq newstring (replace-match replace nil t newstring)))
159 newstring))
160
161;; Copied from shell.el
162(defun dirtrack-toggle ()
163 "Enable or disable Dirtrack directory tracking in a shell buffer."
164 (interactive)
165 (setq dirtrackp (not dirtrackp))
166 (message "Directory tracking %s" (if dirtrackp "ON" "OFF")))
167
168(defun dirtrack-debug-message (string)
169 (let ((buf (current-buffer))
170 (debug-buf (get-buffer-create dirtrack-debug-buffer))
171 )
172 (set-buffer debug-buf)
173 (insert (concat string "\n"))
174 (set-buffer buf)
175 ))
176
177;;;###autoload
178(defun dirtrack (input)
179 (if (null dirtrackp)
180 nil
181 (let ((prompt-path)
182 (current-dir default-directory)
183 (matched)
184 (dirtrack-regexp (nth 0 dirtrack-list))
185 (match-num (nth 1 dirtrack-list))
186 (multi-line (nth 2 dirtrack-list))
187 )
188 ;; No output?
189 (if (eq (point) (point-min))
190 nil
191 (save-excursion
192 (goto-char comint-last-output-start)
193 ;; Look for the prompt
194 (if multi-line
195 (and
196 (goto-char (point-max))
197 (setq matched
198 (re-search-backward
199 dirtrack-regexp
200 comint-last-output-start
201 t)))
202 (beginning-of-line)
203 (setq matched (looking-at dirtrack-regexp)))
204 ;; No match
205 (if (null matched)
206 (and dirtrack-debug
207 (dirtrack-debug-message
208 (format
209 "Failed to match regexp: %s"
210 dirtrack-regexp)))
211 (setq prompt-path
212 (buffer-substring-no-properties
213 (match-beginning match-num) (match-end match-num)))
214 ;; Empty string
215 (if (not (> (length prompt-path) 0))
216 (and dirtrack-debug
217 (dirtrack-debug-message "Match is empty string"))
218 ;; Transform prompts into canonical forms
219 (setq prompt-path (funcall dirtrack-directory-function
220 prompt-path))
221 (setq current-dir (funcall dirtrack-canonicalize-function
222 current-dir))
223 (and dirtrack-debug
224 (dirtrack-debug-message
225 (format
226 "Prompt is %s\nCurrent directory is %s"
227 prompt-path current-dir)))
228 ;; Compare them
229 (if (or (string= current-dir prompt-path)
230 (string= current-dir
231 (abbreviate-file-name prompt-path)))
232 (and dirtrack-debug
233 (dirtrack-debug-message
234 (format "Not changing directory")))
235 ;; Change directory
236 (shell-process-cd prompt-path)
237 (and dirtrack-debug
238 (dirtrack-debug-message
239 (format "Changing directory to %s" prompt-path))))
240 )))))))
241
242(provide 'dirtrack)
243
244;;; dirtrack.el ends here