;;; pp.el --- pretty printer for Emacs Lisp ;; Copyright (C) 1989, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, ;; 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Randal Schwartz ;; Keywords: lisp ;; 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 3, 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, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;;; Code: (defvar font-lock-verbose) (defgroup pp nil "Pretty printer for Emacs Lisp." :prefix "pp-" :group 'lisp) (defcustom pp-escape-newlines t "*Value of `print-escape-newlines' used by pp-* functions." :type 'boolean :group 'pp) ;;;###autoload (defun pp-to-string (object) "Return a string containing the pretty-printed representation of OBJECT. OBJECT can be any Lisp object. Quoting characters are used as needed to make output that `read' can handle, whenever this is possible." (save-excursion (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer " pp-to-string")) (unwind-protect (progn (lisp-mode-variables nil) (set-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table) (let ((print-escape-newlines pp-escape-newlines) (print-quoted t)) (prin1 object (current-buffer))) (pp-buffer) (buffer-string)) (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))) ;;;###autoload (defun pp-buffer () "Prettify the current buffer with printed representation of a Lisp object." (goto-char (point-min)) (while (not (eobp)) ;; (message "%06d" (- (point-max) (point))) (cond ((condition-case err-var (prog1 t (down-list 1)) (error nil)) (save-excursion (backward-char 1) (skip-chars-backward "'`#^") (when (and (not (bobp)) (memq (char-before) '(?\s ?\t ?\n))) (delete-region (point) (progn (skip-chars-backward " \t\n") (point))) (insert "\n")))) ((condition-case err-var (prog1 t (up-list 1)) (error nil)) (while (looking-at "\\s)") (forward-char 1)) (delete-region (point) (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t\n") (point))) (insert ?\n)) (t (goto-char (point-max))))) (goto-char (point-min)) (indent-sexp)) ;;;###autoload (defun pp (object &optional stream) "Output the pretty-printed representation of OBJECT, any Lisp object. Quoting characters are printed as needed to make output that `read' can handle, whenever this is possible. Output stream is STREAM, or value of `standard-output' (which see)." (princ (pp-to-string object) (or stream standard-output))) ;;;###autoload (defun pp-eval-expression (expression) "Evaluate EXPRESSION and pretty-print its value. Also add the value to the front of the list in the variable `values'." (interactive (list (read-from-minibuffer "Eval: " nil read-expression-map t 'read-expression-history))) (message "Evaluating...") (setq values (cons (eval expression) values)) (let* ((old-show-function temp-buffer-show-function) ;; Use this function to display the buffer. ;; This function either decides not to display it at all ;; or displays it in the usual way. (temp-buffer-show-function (function (lambda (buf) (save-excursion (set-buffer buf) (goto-char (point-min)) (end-of-line 1) (if (or (< (1+ (point)) (point-max)) (>= (- (point) (point-min)) (frame-width))) (let ((temp-buffer-show-function old-show-function) (old-selected (selected-window)) (window (display-buffer buf))) (goto-char (point-min)) ; expected by some hooks ... (make-frame-visible (window-frame window)) (unwind-protect (progn (select-window window) (run-hooks 'temp-buffer-show-hook)) (select-window old-selected) (message "Evaluating...done. \ See buffer *Pp Eval Output*."))) (message "%s" (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))) )))))) (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Pp Eval Output*" (pp (car values)) (with-current-buffer standard-output (emacs-lisp-mode) (setq buffer-read-only nil) (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-verbose) nil))))) ;;;###autoload (defun pp-eval-last-sexp (arg) "Run `pp-eval-expression' on sexp before point (which see). With argument, pretty-print output into current buffer. Ignores leading comment characters." (interactive "P") (let ((stab (syntax-table)) (pt (point)) start exp) (set-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table) (save-excursion (forward-sexp -1) ;; If first line is commented, ignore all leading comments: (if (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (looking-at "[ \t]*;")) (progn (setq exp (buffer-substring (point) pt)) (while (string-match "\n[ \t]*;+" exp start) (setq start (1+ (match-beginning 0)) exp (concat (substring exp 0 start) (substring exp (match-end 0))))) (setq exp (read exp))) (setq exp (read (current-buffer))))) (set-syntax-table stab) (if arg (insert (pp-to-string (eval exp))) (pp-eval-expression exp)))) ;;; Test cases for quote ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quote quote)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''((quote a) (quote b))) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''('a 'b)) ; same as above ;; (pp-eval-expression ''((quote (quote quote)) (quote quote))) ;; These do not satisfy the quote test. ;; (pp-eval-expression ''quote) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quote)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quote . quote)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quote a b)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quotefoo)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(a b)) (provide 'pp) ; so (require 'pp) works ;;; arch-tag: b0f7c65b-02c7-42bb-9ee3-508a59b8fbb9 ;;; pp.el ends here