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+;;; warnings.el --- log and display warnings
+
+;; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+;; Maintainer: FSF
+;; Keywords: internal
+
+;; 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.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; This file implements the entry points `warn', `lwarn'
+;; and `display-warnings'.
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(defgroup warnings nil
+ "Log and display warnings."
+ :version "21.4"
+ :group 'lisp)
+
+(defvar warning-levels
+ '((:emergency "Emergency%s: " ding)
+ (:error "Error%s: ")
+ (:warning "Warning%s: ")
+ (:debug "Debug%s: "))
+ "List of severity level definitions for `display-warning'.
+Each element looks like (LEVEL STRING FUNCTION) and
+defines LEVEL as a severity level. STRING specifies the
+description of this level. STRING should use `%s' to
+specify where to put the warning group information,
+or it can omit the `%s' so as not to include that information.
+
+The optional FUNCTION, if non-nil, is a function to call
+with no arguments, to get the user's attention.
+
+The standard levels are :emergency, :error, :warning and :debug.
+See `display-warning' for documentation of their meanings.
+Level :debug is ignored by default (see `warning-minimum-level').")
+(put 'warning-levels 'risky-local-variable t)
+
+;; These are for compatibility with XEmacs.
+;; I don't think there is any chance of designing meaningful criteria
+;; to distinguish so many levels.
+(defvar warning-level-aliases
+ '((emergency . :emergency)
+ (error . :error)
+ (warning . :warning)
+ (notice . :warning)
+ (info . :warning)
+ (critical . :emergency)
+ (alarm . :emergency))
+ "Alist of aliases for severity levels for `display-warning'.
+Each element looks like (ALIAS . LEVEL) and defines
+ALIAS as equivalent to LEVEL. LEVEL must be defined in `warning-levels';
+it may not itself be an alias.")
+
+(defcustom warning-minimum-level :warning
+ "Minimum severity level for displaying the warning buffer.
+If a warning's severity level is lower than this,
+the warning is logged in the warnings buffer, but the buffer
+is not immediately displayed. See also `warning-minimum-log-level'."
+ :group 'warnings
+ :type '(choice (const :emergency) (const :error) (const :warning))
+ :version "21.4")
+(defvaralias 'display-warning-minimum-level 'warning-minimum-level)
+
+(defcustom warning-minimum-log-level :warning
+ "Minimum severity level for logging a warning.
+If a warning severity level is lower than this,
+the warning is completely ignored."
+ :group 'warnings
+ :type '(choice (const :emergency) (const :error) (const :warning))
+ :version "21.4")
+(defvaralias 'log-warning-minimum-level 'warning-minimum-log-level)
+
+(defcustom warning-suppress-log-types nil
+ "List of warning types that should not be logged.
+If any element of this list matches the GROUP argument to `display-warning',
+the warning is completely ignored.
+The element must match the first elements of GROUP.
+Thus, (foo bar) as an element matches (foo bar)
+or (foo bar ANYTHING...) as GROUP.
+If GROUP is a symbol FOO, that is equivalent to the list (FOO),
+so only the element (FOO) will match it."
+ :group 'warnings
+ :type '(repeat (repeat symbol))
+ :version "21.4")
+
+(defcustom warning-suppress-types nil
+ "Custom groups for warnings not to display immediately.
+If any element of this list matches the GROUP argument to `display-warning',
+the warning is logged nonetheless, but the warnings buffer is
+not immediately displayed.
+The element must match an initial segment of the list GROUP.
+Thus, (foo bar) as an element matches (foo bar)
+or (foo bar ANYTHING...) as GROUP.
+If GROUP is a symbol FOO, that is equivalent to the list (FOO),
+so only the element (FOO) will match it.
+See also `warning-suppress-log-types'."
+ :group 'warnings
+ :type '(repeat (repeat symbol))
+ :version "21.4")
+
+;;; The autoload cookie is so that programs can bind this variable
+;;; safely, testing the existing value, before they call one of the
+;;; warnings functions.
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar warning-prefix-function nil
+ "Function to generate warning prefixes.
+This function, if non-nil, is called with two arguments,
+the severity level and its entry in `warning-levels',
+and should return the entry that should actually be used.
+The warnings buffer is current when this function is called
+and the function can insert text in it. This text becomes
+the beginning of the warning.")
+
+;;; The autoload cookie is so that programs can bind this variable
+;;; safely, testing the existing value, before they call one of the
+;;; warnings functions.
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar warning-series nil
+ "Non-nil means treat multiple `display-warning' calls as a series.
+A marker indicates a position in the warnings buffer
+which is the start of the current series; it means that
+additional warnings in the same buffer should not move point.
+t means the next warning begins a series (and stores a marker here).
+A symbol with a function definition is like t, except
+also call that function before the next warning.")
+(put 'warning-series 'risky-local-variable t)
+
+;;; The autoload cookie is so that programs can bind this variable
+;;; safely, testing the existing value, before they call one of the
+;;; warnings functions.
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar warning-fill-prefix nil
+ "Non-nil means fill each warning text using this string as `fill-prefix'.")
+
+;;; The autoload cookie is so that programs can bind this variable
+;;; safely, testing the existing value, before they call one of the
+;;; warnings functions.
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar warning-group-format " (%s)"
+ "Format for displaying the warning group in the warning message.
+The result of formatting the group this way gets included in the
+message under the control of the string in `warning-levels'.")
+
+(defun warning-numeric-level (level)
+ "Return a numeric measure of the warning severity level LEVEL."
+ (let* ((elt (assq level warning-levels))
+ (link (memq elt warning-levels)))
+ (length link)))
+
+(defun warning-suppress-p (group suppress-list)
+ "Non-nil if a warning with group GROUP should be suppressed.
+SUPPRESS-LIST is the list of kinds of warnings to suppress."
+ (let (some-match)
+ (dolist (elt suppress-list)
+ (if (symbolp group)
+ ;; If GROUP is a symbol, the ELT must be (GROUP).
+ (if (and (consp elt)
+ (eq (car elt) group)
+ (null (cdr elt)))
+ (setq some-match t))
+ ;; If GROUP is a list, ELT must match it or some initial segment of it.
+ (let ((tem1 group)
+ (tem2 elt)
+ (match t))
+ ;; Check elements of ELT until we run out of them.
+ (while tem2
+ (if (not (equal (car tem1) (car tem2)))
+ (setq match nil))
+ (setq tem1 (cdr tem1)
+ tem2 (cdr tem2)))
+ ;; If ELT is an initial segment of GROUP, MATCH is t now.
+ ;; So set SOME-MATCH.
+ (if match
+ (setq some-match t)))))
+ ;; If some element of SUPPRESS-LIST matched,
+ ;; we return t.
+ some-match))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun display-warning (group message &optional level buffer-name)
+ "Display a warning message, MESSAGE.
+GROUP should be a custom group name (a symbol),
+or else a list of symbols whose first element is a custom group name.
+\(The rest of the symbols represent subcategories, for warning purposes
+only, and you can use whatever symbols you like.)
+
+LEVEL should be either :warning, :error, or :emergency.
+:emergency -- a problem that will seriously impair Emacs operation soon
+ if you do not attend to it promptly.
+:error -- data or circumstances that are inherently wrong.
+:warning -- data or circumstances that are not inherently wrong,
+ but raise suspicion of a possible problem.
+:debug -- info for debugging only.
+
+BUFFER-NAME, if specified, is the name of the buffer for logging the
+warning. By default, it is `*Warnings*'.
+
+See the `warnings' custom group for user customization features.
+
+See also `warning-series', `warning-prefix-function' and
+`warning-fill-prefix' for additional programming features."
+ (unless level
+ (setq level :warning))
+ (if (assq level warning-level-aliases)
+ (setq level (cdr (assq level warning-level-aliases))))
+ (or (< (warning-numeric-level level)
+ (warning-numeric-level warning-minimum-log-level))
+ (warning-suppress-p group warning-suppress-log-types)
+ (let* ((groupname (if (consp group) (car group) group))
+ (buffer (get-buffer-create (or buffer-name "*Warnings*")))
+ (level-info (assq level warning-levels))
+ start end)
+ (with-current-buffer buffer
+ (goto-char (point-max))
+ (when (and warning-series (symbolp warning-series))
+ (setq warning-series
+ (prog1 (point-marker)
+ (unless (eq warning-series t)
+ (funcall warning-series)))))
+ (unless (bolp)
+ (newline))
+ (setq start (point))
+ (if warning-prefix-function
+ (setq level-info (funcall warning-prefix-function
+ level level-info)))
+ (insert (format (nth 1 level-info)
+ (format warning-group-format groupname))
+ message)
+ (newline)
+ (when (and warning-fill-prefix (not (string-match "\n" message)))
+ (let ((fill-prefix warning-fill-prefix)
+ (fill-column 78))
+ (fill-region start (point))))
+ (setq end (point))
+ (when (and (markerp warning-series)
+ (eq (marker-buffer warning-series) buffer))
+ (goto-char warning-series)))
+ (if (nth 2 level-info)
+ (funcall (nth 2 level-info)))
+ (if noninteractive
+ ;; Noninteractively, take the text we inserted
+ ;; in the warnings buffer and print it.
+ ;; Do this unconditionally, since there is no way
+ ;; to view logged messages unless we output them.
+ (with-current-buffer buffer
+ (save-excursion
+ ;; Don't include the final newline in the arg
+ ;; to `message', because it adds a newline.
+ (goto-char end)
+ (if (bolp)
+ (forward-char -1))
+ (message "%s" (buffer-substring start (point)))))
+ ;; Interactively, decide whether the warning merits
+ ;; immediate display.
+ (or (< (warning-numeric-level level)
+ (warning-numeric-level warning-minimum-level))
+ (warning-suppress-p group warning-suppress-types)
+ (let ((window (display-buffer buffer)))
+ (when (and (markerp warning-series)
+ (eq (marker-buffer warning-series) buffer))
+ (set-window-start window warning-series))
+ (sit-for 0)))))))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun lwarn (group level message &rest args)
+ "Display a warning message made from (format MESSAGE ARGS...).
+Aside from generating the message with `format',
+this is equivalent to `display-warning'.
+
+GROUP should be a custom group name (a symbol).
+or else a list of symbols whose first element is a custom group name.
+\(The rest of the symbols represent subcategories and
+can be whatever you like.)
+
+LEVEL should be either :warning, :error, or :emergency.
+:emergency -- a problem that will seriously impair Emacs operation soon
+ if you do not attend to it promptly.
+:error -- invalid data or circumstances.
+:warning -- suspicious data or circumstances."
+ (display-warning group (apply 'format message args) level))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun warn (message &rest args)
+ "Display a warning message made from (format MESSAGE ARGS...).
+Aside from generating the message with `format',
+this is equivalent to `display-warning', using
+`emacs' as the group and `:warning' as the level."
+ (display-warning 'emacs (apply 'format message args)))
+
+(provide 'warnings)
+
+;;; warnings.el ends here