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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1997-06-19 02:19:21 +0000
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+;;; info-look.el --- major-mode-sensitive Info index lookup facility.
+;; An older version of this was known as libc.el.
+
+;; Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Ralph Schleicher.
+
+;; Author: Ralph Schleicher <rs@purple.UL.BaWue.DE>
+;; Keywords: help languages
+
+;; 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, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(require 'info)
+
+(defvar info-lookup-mode nil
+ "*Symbol of the current buffer's help mode.
+Provide help according to the buffer's major mode if value is nil.
+Automatically becomes buffer local when set in any fashion.")
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'info-lookup-mode)
+
+(defvar info-lookup-other-window-flag t
+ "*Non-nil means pop up the Info buffer in another window.")
+
+(defvar info-lookup-highlight-face 'highlight
+ "*Face for highlighting looked up help items.
+Setting this variable to nil disables highlighting.")
+
+(defvar info-lookup-highlight-overlay nil
+ "Overlay object used for highlighting.")
+
+(defvar info-lookup-history nil
+ "History of previous input lines.")
+
+(defvar info-lookup-alist '((symbol . info-lookup-symbol-alist)
+ (file . info-lookup-file-alist))
+ "*Alist of known help topics.
+Cons cells are of the form
+
+ (HELP-TOPIC . VARIABLE)
+
+HELP-TOPIC is the symbol of a help topic.
+VARIABLE is a variable storing HELP-TOPIC's public data.
+ Value is an alist with elements of the form
+
+ (HELP-MODE REGEXP IGNORE-CASE DOC-SPEC PARSE-RULE OTHER-MODES)
+
+HELP-MODE is a mode's symbol.
+REGEXP is a regular expression matching those help items whose
+ documentation can be looked up via DOC-SPEC.
+IGNORE-CASE is non-nil if help items are case insensitive.
+DOC-SPEC is a list of documentation specifications of the form
+
+ (INFO-NODE TRANS-FUNC PREFIX SUFFIX)
+
+INFO-NODE is the name (including file name part) of an Info index.
+TRANS-FUNC is a function translating index entries into help items;
+ nil means add only those index entries matching REGEXP, a string
+ means prepend string to the first word of all index entries.
+PREFIX and SUFFIX are parts of a regular expression. If one of
+ them is non-nil then search the help item's Info node for the
+ first occurrence of the regular expression `PREFIX ITEM SUFFIX'.
+ ITEM will be highlighted with `info-lookup-highlight-face' if this
+ variable is not nil.
+PARSE-RULE is either the symbol name of a function or a regular
+ expression for guessing the default help item at point. Fuzzy
+ regular expressions like \"[_a-zA-Z0-9]+\" do a better job if
+ there are no clear delimiters; do not try to write too complex
+ expressions. PARSE-RULE defaults to REGEXP.
+OTHER-MODES is a list of cross references to other help modes.")
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->topic-value (topic)
+ (symbol-value (cdr (assoc topic info-lookup-alist))))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->mode-value (topic mode)
+ (assoc mode (info-lookup->topic-value topic)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->regexp (topic mode)
+ (nth 1 (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->ignore-case (topic mode)
+ (nth 2 (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->doc-spec (topic mode)
+ (nth 3 (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->parse-rule (topic mode)
+ (nth 4 (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->other-modes (topic mode)
+ (nth 5 (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode)))
+
+(defvar info-lookup-cache nil
+ "Cache storing data maintained automatically by the program.
+Value is an alist with cons cell of the form
+
+ (HELP-TOPIC . ((HELP-MODE INITIALIZED COMPLETIONS REFER-MODES) ...))
+
+HELP-TOPIC is the symbol of a help topic.
+HELP-MODE is a mode's symbol.
+INITIALIZED is nil if HELP-MODE is uninitialized, t if
+ HELP-MODE is initialized, and `0' means HELP-MODE is
+ initialized but void.
+COMPLETIONS is an alist of documented help items.
+REFER-MODES is a list of other help modes to use.")
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->cache (topic)
+ (or (assoc topic info-lookup-cache)
+ (car (setq info-lookup-cache
+ (cons (cons topic nil)
+ info-lookup-cache)))))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->topic-cache (topic)
+ (cdr (info-lookup->cache topic)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->mode-cache (topic mode)
+ (assoc mode (info-lookup->topic-cache topic)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->initialized (topic mode)
+ (nth 1 (info-lookup->mode-cache topic mode)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->completions (topic mode)
+ (or (info-lookup->initialized topic mode)
+ (info-lookup-setup-mode topic mode))
+ (nth 2 (info-lookup->mode-cache topic mode)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->refer-modes (topic mode)
+ (or (info-lookup->initialized topic mode)
+ (info-lookup-setup-mode topic mode))
+ (nth 3 (info-lookup->mode-cache topic mode)))
+
+(defsubst info-lookup->all-modes (topic mode)
+ (cons mode (info-lookup->refer-modes topic mode)))
+
+(defvar info-lookup-symbol-alist
+ '((autoconf-mode
+ "A[CM]_[_A-Z0-9]+" nil
+ (("(autoconf)Macro Index" "AC_"
+ "^[ \t]+- \\(Macro\\|Variable\\): .*\\<" "\\>")
+ ("(automake)Index" nil
+ "^[ \t]*`" "'"))
+ ;; Autoconf symbols are M4 macros. Thus use M4's parser.
+ ignore
+ (m4-mode))
+ (bison-mode
+ "[:;|]\\|%\\([%{}]\\|[_a-z]+\\)\\|YY[_A-Z]+\\|yy[_a-z]+" nil
+ (("(bison)Index" nil
+ "`" "'"))
+ "[:;|]\\|%\\([%{}]\\|[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*\\)"
+ (c-mode))
+ (c-mode
+ "\\(struct \\|union \\|enum \\)?[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*" nil
+ (("(libc)Function Index" nil
+ "^[ \t]+- \\(Function\\|Macro\\): .*\\<" "\\>")
+ ("(libc)Variable Index" nil
+ "^[ \t]+- \\(Variable\\|Macro\\): .*\\<" "\\>")
+ ("(libc)Type Index" nil
+ "^[ \t]+- Data Type: \\<" "\\>")
+ ("(termcap)Var Index" nil
+ "^[ \t]*`" "'"))
+ info-lookup-guess-c-symbol)
+ (m4-mode
+ "[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*" nil
+ (("(m4)Macro index"))
+ "[_a-zA-Z0-9]+")
+ (makefile-mode
+ "\\$[^({]\\|\\.[_A-Z]*\\|[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9-]*" nil
+ (("(make)Name Index" nil
+ "^[ \t]*`" "'"))
+ "\\$[^({]\\|\\.[_A-Z]*\\|[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+")
+ (texinfo-mode
+ "@\\([a-zA-Z]+\\|[^a-zA-Z]\\)" nil
+ (("(texinfo)Command and Variable Index"
+ ;; Ignore Emacs commands and prepend a `@'.
+ (lambda (item)
+ (if (string-match "^\\([a-zA-Z]+\\|[^a-zA-Z]\\)\\( .*\\)?$" item)
+ (concat "@" (match-string 1 item))))
+ "`" "'"))))
+ "*Alist of help specifications for symbol names.
+See the documentation of the variable `info-lookup-alist' for more details.")
+
+(defvar info-lookup-file-alist
+ '((c-mode
+ "[_a-zA-Z0-9./+-]+" nil
+ (("(libc)File Index"))))
+ "*Alist of help specifications for file names.
+See the documentation of the variable `info-lookup-alist' for more details.")
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun info-lookup-reset ()
+ "Throw away all cached data.
+This command is useful if the user wants to start at the beginning without
+quitting Emacs, for example, after some Info documents were updated on the
+system."
+ (interactive)
+ (setq info-lookup-cache nil))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun info-lookup-symbol (symbol &optional mode)
+ "Display the documentation of a symbol.
+If called interactively, SYMBOL will be read from the mini-buffer.
+Prefix argument means unconditionally insert the default symbol name
+into the mini-buffer so that it can be edited.
+The default symbol is the one found at point."
+ (interactive
+ (info-lookup-interactive-arguments 'symbol))
+ (info-lookup 'symbol symbol mode))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun info-lookup-file (file &optional mode)
+ "Display the documentation of a file.
+If called interactively, FILE will be read from the mini-buffer.
+Prefix argument means unconditionally insert the default file name
+into the mini-buffer so that it can be edited.
+The default file name is the one found at point."
+ (interactive
+ (info-lookup-interactive-arguments 'file))
+ (info-lookup 'file file mode))
+
+(defun info-lookup-interactive-arguments (topic)
+ "Return default value and help mode for help topic TOPIC."
+ (let* ((mode (if (info-lookup->mode-value
+ topic (or info-lookup-mode major-mode))
+ (or info-lookup-mode major-mode)
+ (info-lookup-change-mode topic)))
+ (completions (info-lookup->completions topic mode))
+ (default (info-lookup-guess-default topic mode))
+ (input (if (or current-prefix-arg (not (assoc default completions)))
+ default))
+ (completion-ignore-case (info-lookup->ignore-case topic mode))
+ (enable-recursive-minibuffers t)
+ (value (completing-read
+ (if (and default (not input))
+ (format "Describe %s (default %s): " topic default)
+ (format "Describe %s: " topic))
+ completions nil nil input 'info-lookup-history)))
+ (list (if (equal value "") default value) mode)))
+
+(defun info-lookup-change-mode (topic)
+ (let* ((completions (mapcar (lambda (arg)
+ (cons (symbol-name (car arg)) (car arg)))
+ (info-lookup->topic-value topic)))
+ (mode (completing-read
+ (format "Use %s help mode: " topic)
+ completions nil t nil 'info-lookup-history)))
+ (or (setq mode (cdr (assoc mode completions)))
+ (error "No %s help available" topic))
+ (or (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode)
+ (error "No %s help available for `%s'" topic mode))
+ (setq info-lookup-mode mode)))
+
+(defun info-lookup (topic item mode)
+ "Display the documentation of a help item."
+ (if (not mode)
+ (setq mode (or info-lookup-mode major-mode)))
+ (or (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode)
+ (error "No %s help available for `%s'" topic mode))
+ (let ((entry (or (assoc (if (info-lookup->ignore-case topic mode)
+ (downcase item) item)
+ (info-lookup->completions topic mode))
+ (error "Not documented as a %s: %s" topic (or item ""))))
+ (modes (info-lookup->all-modes topic mode))
+ (window (selected-window))
+ found doc-spec node prefix suffix)
+ (if (not info-lookup-other-window-flag)
+ (info)
+ (save-window-excursion (info))
+ (switch-to-buffer-other-window "*info*"))
+ (while (and (not found) modes)
+ (setq doc-spec (info-lookup->doc-spec topic (car modes)))
+ (while (and (not found) doc-spec)
+ (setq node (nth 0 (car doc-spec))
+ prefix (nth 2 (car doc-spec))
+ suffix (nth 3 (car doc-spec)))
+ (condition-case nil
+ (progn
+ (Info-goto-node node)
+ (Info-menu (or (cdr entry) item))
+ (setq found t)
+ (if (or prefix suffix)
+ (let ((case-fold-search
+ (info-lookup->ignore-case topic (car modes)))
+ (buffer-read-only nil))
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (re-search-forward
+ (concat prefix (regexp-quote item) suffix))
+ (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
+ (and window-system info-lookup-highlight-face
+ ;; Search again for ITEM so that the first
+ ;; occurence of ITEM will be highlighted.
+ (re-search-forward (regexp-quote item))
+ (let ((start (match-beginning 0))
+ (end (match-end 0)))
+ (if (overlayp info-lookup-highlight-overlay)
+ (move-overlay info-lookup-highlight-overlay
+ start end (current-buffer))
+ (setq info-lookup-highlight-overlay
+ (make-overlay start end))))
+ (overlay-put info-lookup-highlight-overlay
+ 'face info-lookup-highlight-face)))))
+ (error nil))
+ (setq doc-spec (cdr doc-spec)))
+ (setq modes (cdr modes)))
+ ;; Don't leave the Info buffer if the help item couldn't be looked up.
+ (if (and info-lookup-other-window-flag found)
+ (select-window window))))
+
+(defun info-lookup-setup-mode (topic mode)
+ "Initialize the internal data structure."
+ (or (info-lookup->initialized topic mode)
+ (let (cell data (initialized 0) completions refer-modes)
+ (if (not (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode))
+ (message "No %s help available for `%s'" topic mode)
+ ;; Recursively setup cross references.
+ ;; But refer only to non-void modes.
+ (mapcar (lambda (arg)
+ (or (info-lookup->initialized topic arg)
+ (info-lookup-setup-mode topic arg))
+ (and (eq (info-lookup->initialized topic arg) t)
+ (setq refer-modes (cons arg refer-modes))))
+ (info-lookup->other-modes topic mode))
+ (setq refer-modes (nreverse refer-modes))
+ ;; Build the full completion alist.
+ (setq completions
+ (nconc (info-lookup-make-completions topic mode)
+ (apply 'append
+ (mapcar (lambda (arg)
+ (info-lookup->completions topic arg))
+ refer-modes))))
+ (setq initialized t))
+ ;; Update `info-lookup-cache'.
+ (setq cell (info-lookup->mode-cache topic mode)
+ data (list initialized completions refer-modes))
+ (if (not cell)
+ (setcdr (info-lookup->cache topic)
+ (cons (cons mode data) (info-lookup->topic-cache topic)))
+ (setcdr cell data))
+ initialized)))
+
+(defun info-lookup-make-completions (topic mode)
+ "Create a unique alist from all index entries."
+ (condition-case nil
+ (let ((doc-spec (info-lookup->doc-spec topic mode))
+ (regexp (concat "^\\(" (info-lookup->regexp topic mode)
+ "\\)\\([ \t].*\\)?$"))
+ node trans entry item prefix result)
+ (save-window-excursion
+ (info)
+ (while doc-spec
+ (setq node (nth 0 (car doc-spec))
+ trans (cond ((eq (nth 1 (car doc-spec)) nil)
+ (lambda (arg)
+ (if (string-match regexp arg)
+ (match-string 1 arg))))
+ ((stringp (nth 1 (car doc-spec)))
+ (setq prefix (nth 1 (car doc-spec)))
+ (lambda (arg)
+ (if (string-match "^\\([^: \t\n]+\\)" arg)
+ (concat prefix (match-string 1 arg)))))
+ (t (nth 1 (car doc-spec)))))
+ (message "Processing Info node \"%s\"..." node)
+ (Info-goto-node node)
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (and (search-forward "\n* Menu:" nil t)
+ (while (re-search-forward "\n\\* \\([^:\t\n]*\\):" nil t)
+ (setq entry (match-string 1)
+ item (funcall trans entry))
+ (and (info-lookup->ignore-case topic mode)
+ (setq item (downcase item)))
+ (and (string-equal entry item)
+ (setq entry nil))
+ (or (assoc item result)
+ (setq result (cons (cons item entry) result)))))
+ (message "Processing Info node \"%s\"... done" node)
+ (setq doc-spec (cdr doc-spec)))
+ (Info-directory))
+ result)
+ (error nil)))
+
+(defun info-lookup-guess-default (topic mode)
+ "Pick up default item at point (with favor to look back).
+Return nil if there is nothing appropriate."
+ (let ((modes (info-lookup->all-modes topic mode))
+ (start (point)) guess whitespace)
+ (while (and (not guess) modes)
+ (setq guess (info-lookup-guess-default* topic (car modes))
+ modes (cdr modes))
+ (goto-char start))
+ ;; Collapse whitespace characters.
+ (and guess (concat (delete nil (mapcar (lambda (ch)
+ (if (or (char-equal ch ? )
+ (char-equal ch ?\t)
+ (char-equal ch ?\n))
+ (if (not whitespace)
+ (setq whitespace ? ))
+ (setq whitespace nil) ch))
+ guess))))))
+
+(defun info-lookup-guess-default* (topic mode)
+ (let ((case-fold-search (info-lookup->ignore-case topic mode))
+ (rule (or (info-lookup->parse-rule topic mode)
+ (info-lookup->regexp topic mode)))
+ (start (point)) end regexp subexp result)
+ (if (symbolp rule)
+ (setq result (funcall rule))
+ (if (consp rule)
+ (setq regexp (car rule)
+ subexp (cdr rule))
+ (setq regexp rule
+ subexp 0))
+ (skip-chars-backward " \t\n") (setq end (point))
+ (while (and (re-search-backward regexp nil t)
+ (looking-at regexp)
+ (>= (match-end 0) end))
+ (setq result (match-string subexp)))
+ (if (not result)
+ (progn
+ (goto-char start)
+ (skip-chars-forward " \t\n")
+ (and (looking-at regexp)
+ (setq result (match-string subexp))))))
+ result))
+
+(defun info-lookup-guess-c-symbol ()
+ "Get the C symbol at point."
+ (condition-case nil
+ (progn
+ (backward-sexp)
+ (let ((start (point)) prefix name)
+ ;; Test for a leading `struct', `union', or `enum' keyword
+ ;; but ignore names like `foo_struct'.
+ (setq prefix (and (< (skip-chars-backward " \t\n") 0)
+ (< (skip-chars-backward "_a-zA-Z0-9") 0)
+ (looking-at "\\(struct\\|union\\|enum\\)\\s ")
+ (concat (match-string 1) " ")))
+ (goto-char start)
+ (and (looking-at "[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*")
+ (setq name (match-string 0)))
+ ;; Caveat! Look forward if point is at `struct' etc.
+ (and (not prefix)
+ (or (string-equal name "struct")
+ (string-equal name "union")
+ (string-equal name "enum"))
+ (looking-at "[a-z]+\\s +\\([_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*\\)")
+ (setq prefix (concat name " ")
+ name (match-string 1)))
+ (and (or prefix name)
+ (concat prefix name))))
+ (error nil)))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun info-complete-symbol (&optional mode)
+ "Perform completion on symbol preceding point."
+ (interactive
+ (list (if (info-lookup->mode-value
+ 'symbol (or info-lookup-mode major-mode))
+ (or info-lookup-mode major-mode)
+ (info-lookup-change-mode 'symbol))))
+ (info-complete 'symbol mode))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun info-complete-file (&optional mode)
+ "Perform completion on file preceding point."
+ (interactive
+ (list (if (info-lookup->mode-value
+ 'file (or info-lookup-mode major-mode))
+ (or info-lookup-mode major-mode)
+ (info-lookup-change-mode 'file))))
+ (info-complete 'file mode))
+
+(defun info-complete (topic mode)
+ "Try to complete a help item."
+ (barf-if-buffer-read-only)
+ (if (not mode)
+ (setq mode (or info-lookup-mode major-mode)))
+ (or (info-lookup->mode-value topic mode)
+ (error "No %s completion available for `%s'" topic mode))
+ (let ((modes (info-lookup->all-modes topic mode))
+ (start (point)) try completion)
+ (while (and (not try) modes)
+ (setq mode (car modes)
+ modes (cdr modes)
+ try (info-lookup-guess-default* topic mode))
+ (goto-char start))
+ (and (not try)
+ (error "Found no %s to complete" topic))
+ (setq completion (try-completion
+ try (info-lookup->completions topic mode)))
+ (cond ((not completion)
+ (ding))
+ ((stringp completion)
+ (delete-region (- start (length try)) start)
+ (insert completion)))))
+
+(provide 'info-look)
+
+;;; info-look.el ends here