;;; dirtrack.el --- Directory Tracking by watching the prompt ;; Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Peter Breton ;; Created: Sun Nov 17 1996 ;; Keywords: processes ;; Time-stamp: <96/12/26 09:23:01 peter> ;; 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: ;; Shell directory tracking by watching the prompt. ;; ;; This is yet another attempt at a directory-tracking package for ;; Emacs shell-mode. However, this package makes one strong assumption: ;; that you can customize your shell's prompt to contain the ;; current working directory. Most shells do support this, including ;; almost every type of Bourne and C shell on Unix, the native shells on ;; Windows95 (COMMAND.COM) and Windows NT (CMD.EXE), and most 3rd party ;; Windows shells. If you cannot do this, or do not wish to, this package ;; will be useless to you. ;; ;; Installation: ;; ;; 1) Set your shell's prompt to contain the current working directory. ;; You may need to consult your shell's documentation to find out how to ;; do this. ;; ;; Note that directory tracking is done by matching regular expressions, ;; therefore it is *VERY IMPORTANT* for your prompt to be easily ;; distinguishable from other output. If your prompt regexp is too general, ;; you will see error messages from the dirtrack filter as it attempts to cd ;; to non-existent directories. ;; ;; 2) Set the variable 'dirtrack-list' to an appropriate value. This ;; should be a list of two elements: the first is a regular expression ;; which matches your prompt up to and including the pathname part. ;; The second is a number which tells which regular expression group to ;; match to extract only the pathname. If you use a multi-line prompt, ;; add 't' as a third element. Note that some of the functions in ;; 'comint.el' assume a single-line prompt (eg, comint-bol). ;; ;; Determining this information may take some experimentation. Setting ;; the variable 'dirtrack-debug' may help; it causes the directory-tracking ;; filter to log messages to the buffer 'dirtrack-debug-buffer'. ;; ;; 3) Autoload directory tracking by adding the following to your .emacs: ;; ;; (autoload 'dirtrack "dirtrack" ;; "Directory tracking by watching the prompt") ;; ;; 4) Add a hook to shell-mode to enable the directory tracking: ;; ;; (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook ;; (function (lambda () ;; (setq comint-output-filter-functions ;; (append (list 'dirtrack) ;; comint-output-filter-functions))))) ;; ;; You may wish to turn ordinary shell tracking off by calling ;; 'shell-dirtrack-toggle' or setting 'shell-dirtrackp'. ;; ;; Examples: ;; ;; 1) On Windows NT, my prompt is set to emacs$S$P$G. ;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1) ;; ;; 2) On Solaris running bash, my prompt is set like this: ;; PS1="\w\012emacs@\h(\!) [\t]% " ;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^\\([/~].*\\)\nemacs@[^%]+% *" 1 t) ;; ;; I'd appreciate other examples from people who use this package. ;;; Code: (eval-when-compile (require 'comint) (require 'shell)) (defvar dirtrack-list (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1) "*List for directory tracking. First item is a regexp that describes where to find the path in a prompt. Second is a number, the regexp group to match. Optional third item is whether the prompt is multi-line. If nil or omitted, prompt is assumed to be on a single line.") (make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrack-list) (defvar dirtrack-debug nil "*If non-nil, the function 'dirtrack' will report debugging info.") (defvar dirtrack-debug-buffer "*Directory Tracking Log*" "Buffer to write directory tracking debug information.") (defvar dirtrackp t "*If non-nil, directory tracking via 'dirtrack' is enabled.") (make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrackp) (defvar dirtrack-directory-function (if (memq system-type (list 'ms-dos 'windows-nt)) 'dirtrack-windows-directory-function 'dirtrack-default-directory-function) "*Function to apply to the prompt directory for comparison purposes.") (defvar dirtrack-canonicalize-function (if (memq system-type (list 'ms-dos 'windows-nt)) 'downcase 'identity) "*Function to apply to the default directory for comparison purposes.") (defun dirtrack-default-directory-function (dir) "Return a canonical directory for comparison purposes. Such a directory ends with a forward slash." (let ((directory dir)) (if (not (char-equal ?/ (string-to-char (substring directory -1)))) (concat directory "/") directory))) (defun dirtrack-windows-directory-function (dir) "Return a canonical directory for comparison purposes. Such a directory is all lowercase, has forward-slashes as delimiters, and ends with a forward slash." (let ((directory dir)) (setq directory (downcase (replace-slash directory t))) (if (not (char-equal ?/ (string-to-char (substring directory -1)))) (concat directory "/") directory))) (defconst forward-slash (regexp-quote "/")) (defconst backward-slash (regexp-quote "\\")) (defun replace-slash (string &optional opposite) "Replace forward slashes with backwards ones. If additional argument is non-nil, replace backwards slashes with forward ones." (let ((orig (if opposite backward-slash forward-slash)) (replace (if opposite forward-slash backward-slash)) (newstring string) ) (while (string-match orig newstring) (setq newstring (replace-match replace nil t newstring))) newstring)) ;; Copied from shell.el (defun dirtrack-toggle () "Enable or disable Dirtrack directory tracking in a shell buffer." (interactive) (setq dirtrackp (not dirtrackp)) (message "Directory tracking %s" (if dirtrackp "ON" "OFF"))) (defun dirtrack-debug-message (string) (let ((buf (current-buffer)) (debug-buf (get-buffer-create dirtrack-debug-buffer)) ) (set-buffer debug-buf) (insert (concat string "\n")) (set-buffer buf) )) ;;;###autoload (defun dirtrack (input) (if (null dirtrackp) nil (let ((prompt-path) (current-dir default-directory) (matched) (dirtrack-regexp (nth 0 dirtrack-list)) (match-num (nth 1 dirtrack-list)) (multi-line (nth 2 dirtrack-list)) ) ;; No output? (if (eq (point) (point-min)) nil (save-excursion (goto-char comint-last-output-start) ;; Look for the prompt (if multi-line (and (goto-char (point-max)) (setq matched (re-search-backward dirtrack-regexp comint-last-output-start t))) (beginning-of-line) (setq matched (looking-at dirtrack-regexp))) ;; No match (if (null matched) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message (format "Failed to match regexp: %s" dirtrack-regexp))) (setq prompt-path (buffer-substring-no-properties (match-beginning match-num) (match-end match-num))) ;; Empty string (if (not (> (length prompt-path) 0)) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message "Match is empty string")) ;; Transform prompts into canonical forms (setq prompt-path (funcall dirtrack-directory-function prompt-path)) (setq current-dir (funcall dirtrack-canonicalize-function current-dir)) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message (format "Prompt is %s\nCurrent directory is %s" prompt-path current-dir))) ;; Compare them (if (or (string= current-dir prompt-path) (string= current-dir (abbreviate-file-name prompt-path))) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message (format "Not changing directory"))) ;; Change directory (shell-process-cd prompt-path) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message (format "Changing directory to %s" prompt-path)))) ))))))) (provide 'dirtrack) ;;; dirtrack.el ends here