;;; dirtrack.el --- Directory Tracking by watching the prompt -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Copyright (C) 1996, 2001-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Peter Breton ;; Created: Sun Nov 17 1996 ;; Keywords: processes ;; 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 of the License, 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. If not, see . ;;; 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. Using ;; `dirtrack-debug-mode' may help; it causes the directory-tracking ;; filter to log messages to the buffer `dirtrack-debug-buffer'. ;; ;; 3) Activate `dirtrack-mode'. You may wish to turn ordinary shell ;; tracking off by calling `shell-dirtrack-mode'. ;; ;; 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. ;; ;; Here's one from Stephen Eglen: ;; ;; Running under tcsh: ;; (setq-default dirtrack-list '("^%E \\([^ ]+\\)" 1)) ;; ;; It might be worth mentioning in your file that Emacs sources start up ;; files of the form: ~/.emacs_ where is the name of the ;; shell. So for example, I have the following in ~/.emacs_tcsh: ;; ;; set prompt = "%%E %~ %h% " ;; ;; This produces a prompt of the form: ;; %E /var/spool 10% ;; ;; This saves me from having to use the %E prefix in other non-emacs ;; shells. ;; ;; A final note: ;; ;; I run LOTS of shell buffers through Emacs, sometimes as different users ;; (eg, when logged in as myself, I'll run a root shell in the same Emacs). ;; If you do this, and the shell prompt contains a ~, Emacs will interpret ;; this relative to the user which owns the Emacs process, not the user ;; who owns the shell buffer. This may cause dirtrack to behave strangely ;; (typically it reports that it is unable to cd to a directory ;; with a ~ in it). ;; ;; The same behavior can occur if you use dirtrack with remote filesystems ;; (using telnet, rlogin, etc) as Emacs will be checking the local ;; filesystem, not the remote one. This problem is not specific to dirtrack, ;; but also affects file completion, etc. ;;; Code: (eval-when-compile (require 'comint) (require 'shell)) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Customization Variables ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defgroup dirtrack nil "Directory tracking by watching the prompt." :prefix "dirtrack-" :group 'shell) (defcustom 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." :type '(sexp (regexp :tag "Prompt Expression") (integer :tag "Regexp Group")) :version "24.1") (make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrack-list) (defcustom dirtrack-debug nil "If non-nil, the function `dirtrack' will report debugging info." :type 'boolean) (defcustom dirtrack-debug-buffer "*Directory Tracking Log*" "Buffer in which to write directory tracking debug information." :type 'string) (defcustom dirtrack-directory-function (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt cygwin)) 'dirtrack-windows-directory-function 'file-name-as-directory) "Function to apply to the prompt directory for comparison purposes." :type 'function) (defcustom dirtrack-canonicalize-function (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt cygwin)) 'downcase 'identity) "Function to apply to the default directory for comparison purposes." :type 'function) (defcustom dirtrack-directory-change-hook nil "Hook that is called when a directory change is made." :type 'hook) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Functions ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (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." (file-name-as-directory (downcase (subst-char-in-string ?\\ ?/ dir)))) (defun dirtrack-cygwin-directory-function (dir) "Return a canonical directory taken from a Cygwin path for comparison purposes." (if (string-match "/cygdrive/\\([A-Z]\\)\\(.*\\)" dir) (concat (match-string 1 dir) ":" (match-string 2 dir)) dir)) ;;;###autoload (define-minor-mode dirtrack-mode "Toggle directory tracking in shell buffers (Dirtrack mode). This method requires that your shell prompt contain the current working directory at all times, and that you set the variable `dirtrack-list' to match the prompt. This is an alternative to `shell-dirtrack-mode', which works by tracking `cd' and similar commands which change the shell working directory." :lighter nil (if dirtrack-mode (add-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions 'dirtrack nil t) (remove-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions 'dirtrack t))) (define-minor-mode dirtrack-debug-mode "Toggle Dirtrack debugging." :lighter nil (if dirtrack-debug-mode (display-buffer (get-buffer-create dirtrack-debug-buffer)))) (defun dirtrack-debug-message (msg1 msg2) "Insert strings at the end of `dirtrack-debug-buffer'." (when dirtrack-debug-mode (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create dirtrack-debug-buffer) (goto-char (point-max)) (insert (substitute-command-keys msg1) msg2 "\n")))) (declare-function shell-prefixed-directory-name "shell" (dir)) (declare-function shell-process-cd "shell" (arg)) ;;;###autoload (defun dirtrack (input) "Determine the current directory from the process output for a prompt. This filter function is used by `dirtrack-mode'. It looks for the prompt specified by `dirtrack-list', and calls `shell-process-cd' if the directory seems to have changed away from `default-directory'." (when (and dirtrack-mode (not (eq (point) (point-min)))) ; there must be output (save-excursion ; What's this for? -- cyd (if (not (string-match (nth 0 dirtrack-list) input)) ;; No match (dirtrack-debug-message "Input failed to match `dirtrack-list': " input) (let ((prompt-path (match-string (nth 1 dirtrack-list) input)) temp) (cond ;; Don't do anything for empty string ((string-equal prompt-path "") (dirtrack-debug-message "Prompt match gives empty string: " input)) ;; If the prompt contains an absolute file name, call ;; `shell-process-cd' if the directory has changed. ((file-name-absolute-p prompt-path) ;; Transform prompts into canonical forms (let ((orig-prompt-path (funcall dirtrack-directory-function prompt-path)) (current-dir (funcall dirtrack-canonicalize-function default-directory))) (setq prompt-path (shell-prefixed-directory-name orig-prompt-path)) ;; Compare them (if (or (string-equal current-dir prompt-path) (string-equal (expand-file-name current-dir) (expand-file-name prompt-path))) (dirtrack-debug-message "Not changing directory: " current-dir) ;; It's possible that Emacs thinks the directory ;; doesn't exist (e.g. rlogin buffers) (if (file-accessible-directory-p prompt-path) ;; `shell-process-cd' adds the prefix, so we need ;; to give it the original (un-prefixed) path. (progn (shell-process-cd orig-prompt-path) (run-hooks 'dirtrack-directory-change-hook) (dirtrack-debug-message "Changing directory to " prompt-path)) (dirtrack-debug-message "Not changing to non-existent directory: " prompt-path))))) ;; If the file name is non-absolute, try and see if it ;; seems to be up or down from where we were. ((string-match "\\`\\(.*\\)\\(?:/.*\\)?\n\\(.*/\\)\\1\\(?:/.*\\)?\\'" (setq temp (concat prompt-path "\n" default-directory))) (shell-process-cd (concat (match-string 2 temp) prompt-path)) (run-hooks 'dirtrack-directory-change-hook))))))) input) (provide 'dirtrack) ;;; dirtrack.el ends here