;;; emacsbug.el --- command to report Emacs bugs to appropriate mailing list. ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: K. Shane Hartman ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Keywords: maint ;; Not fully installed because it can work only on Internet hosts. ;; 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 2, 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. ;;; Commentary: ;; `M-x report-emacs-bug ' starts an email note to the Emacs maintainers ;; describing a problem. Here's how it's done... ;;; Code: ;; >> This should be an address which is accessible to your machine, ;; >> otherwise you can't use this file. It will only work on the ;; >> internet with this address. (require 'sendmail) (defvar bug-gnu-emacs "bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu" "Address of site maintaining mailing list for GNU Emacs bugs.") (defvar report-emacs-bug-orig-text nil "The automatically-created initial text of bug report.") ;;;###autoload (defun report-emacs-bug (topic) "Report a bug in GNU Emacs. Prompts for bug subject. Leaves you in a mail buffer." (interactive "sBug Subject: ") (if (mail nil bug-gnu-emacs topic) (let (user-point) ;; The rest of this does not execute ;; if the user was asked to confirm and said no. (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward (concat "^" (regexp-quote mail-header-separator) "\n")) (insert "In " (emacs-version) "\n") (if (and system-configuration-options (not (equal system-configuration-options ""))) (insert "configured using `configure " system-configuration-options "'\n")) (insert "\n") (insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n" "and the precise symptoms of the bug:\n\n") (setq user-point (point)) (insert "\n\n\n" "Recent input:\n") (let ((before-keys (point))) (insert (mapconcat (function (lambda (key) (if (or (integerp key) (symbolp key) (listp key)) (single-key-description key) (prin1-to-string key nil)))) (recent-keys) " ")) (goto-char before-keys) (while (progn (move-to-column 50) (not (eobp))) (search-forward " " nil t) (insert "\n"))) (insert "\n\n") (insert "Recent messages:\n") (insert-buffer-substring "*Messages*" (save-excursion (set-buffer "*Messages*") (goto-char (point-max)) (forward-line -10) (point)) (save-excursion (set-buffer "*Messages*") (point-max))) ;; This is so the user has to type something ;; in order to send easily. (use-local-map (nconc (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map))) (define-key (current-local-map) "\C-c\C-i" 'report-emacs-bug-info) (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*" (princ (substitute-command-keys "Type \\[mail-send-and-exit] to send the bug report.\n")) (princ (substitute-command-keys "Type \\[kill-buffer] RET to cancel (don't send it).\n")) (terpri) (princ (substitute-command-keys "Type \\[report-emacs-bug-info] to visit in Info the Emacs Manual section about when and how to write a bug report, and what information to supply so that the bug can be fixed. Type SPC to scroll through this section and its subsections."))) ;; Make it less likely people will send empty messages. (make-local-variable 'mail-send-hook) (add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'report-emacs-bug-hook) (save-excursion (goto-char (point-max)) (skip-chars-backward " \t\n") (make-local-variable 'report-emacs-bug-orig-text) (setq report-emacs-bug-orig-text (buffer-substring (point-min) (point)))) (goto-char user-point)))) (defun report-emacs-bug-info () "Go to the Info node on reporting Emacs bugs." (interactive) (info) (Info-directory) (Info-menu "emacs") (Info-goto-node "Bugs")) (defun report-emacs-bug-hook () (save-excursion (goto-char (point-max)) (skip-chars-backward " \t\n") (if (and (= (- (point) (point-min)) (length report-emacs-bug-orig-text)) (equal (buffer-substring (point-min) (point)) report-emacs-bug-orig-text)) (error "No text entered in bug report")))) (provide 'emacsbug) ;;; emacsbug.el ends here