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;;; map-ynp.el --- General-purpose boolean question-asker.
;;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
;; Keywords: lisp, extensions
;;; This program 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.
;;;
;;; This program 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.
;;;
;;; A copy of the GNU General Public License can be obtained from this
;;; program's author (send electronic mail to roland@ai.mit.edu) or from
;;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
;;; 02139, USA.
;;; Commentary:
;;; map-y-or-n-p is a general-purpose question-asking function.
;;; It asks a series of y/n questions (a la y-or-n-p), and decides to
;;; applies an action to each element of a list based on the answer.
;;; The nice thing is that you also get some other possible answers
;;; to use, reminiscent of query-replace: ! to answer y to all remaining
;;; questions; ESC or q to answer n to all remaining questions; . to answer
;;; y once and then n for the remainder; and you can get help with C-h.
;;; Code:
;;;###autoload
(defun map-y-or-n-p (prompter actor list &optional help action-alist
no-cursor-in-echo-area)
"Ask a series of boolean questions.
Takes args PROMPTER ACTOR LIST, and optional args HELP and ACTION-ALIST.
LIST is a list of objects, or a function of no arguments to return the next
object or nil.
If PROMPTER is a string, the prompt is \(format PROMPTER OBJECT\). If not
a string, PROMPTER is a function of one arg (an object from LIST), which
returns a string to be used as the prompt for that object. If the return
value is not a string, it is eval'd to get the answer; it may be nil to
ignore the object, t to act on the object without asking the user, or a
form to do a more complex prompt.
ACTOR is a function of one arg (an object from LIST),
which gets called with each object that the user answers `yes' for.
If HELP is given, it is a list (OBJECT OBJECTS ACTION),
where OBJECT is a string giving the singular noun for an elt of LIST;
OBJECTS is the plural noun for elts of LIST, and ACTION is a transitive
verb describing ACTOR. The default is \(\"object\" \"objects\" \"act on\"\).
At the prompts, the user may enter y, Y, or SPC to act on that object;
n, N, or DEL to skip that object; ! to act on all following objects;
ESC or q to exit (skip all following objects); . (period) to act on the
current object and then exit; or \\[help-command] to get help.
If ACTION-ALIST is given, it is an alist (KEY FUNCTION HELP) of extra keys
that will be accepted. KEY is a character; FUNCTION is a function of one
arg (an object from LIST); HELP is a string. When the user hits KEY,
FUNCTION is called. If it returns non-nil, the object is considered
\"acted upon\", and the next object from LIST is processed. If it returns
nil, the prompt is repeated for the same object.
Final optional argument NO-CURSOR-IN-ECHO-AREA non-nil says not to set
`cursor-in-echo-area' while prompting.
This function uses `query-replace-map' to define the standard responses,
but not all of the responses which `query-replace' understands
are meaningful here.
Returns the number of actions taken."
(let* ((user-keys (if action-alist
(concat (mapconcat (function
(lambda (elt)
(key-description
(char-to-string (car elt)))))
action-alist ", ")
" ")
""))
;; Make a map that defines each user key as a vector containing
;; its definition.
(map (cons 'keymap
(append (mapcar (lambda (elt)
(cons (car elt) (vector (nth 1 elt))))
action-alist)
query-replace-map)))
(actions 0)
prompt char elt tail def delayed-switch-frame
(next (if (or (and list (symbolp list))
(subrp list)
(byte-code-function-p list)
(and (consp list)
(eq (car list) 'lambda)))
(function (lambda ()
(setq elt (funcall list))))
(function (lambda ()
(if list
(progn
(setq elt (car list)
list (cdr list))
t)
nil))))))
(unwind-protect
(progn
(if (stringp prompter)
(setq prompter (` (lambda (object)
(format (, prompter) object)))))
(while (funcall next)
(setq prompt (funcall prompter elt))
(if (stringp prompt)
(progn
(setq quit-flag nil)
;; Prompt the user about this object.
(let ((cursor-in-echo-area (not no-cursor-in-echo-area)))
(message "%s(y, n, !, ., q, %sor %s) "
prompt user-keys
(key-description (vector help-char)))
(setq char (read-event)))
;; Show the answer to the question.
(message "%s(y, n, !, ., q, %sor %s) %s"
prompt user-keys
(key-description (vector help-char))
(single-key-description char))
(setq def (lookup-key map (vector char)))
(cond ((eq def 'exit)
(setq next (function (lambda () nil))))
((eq def 'act)
;; Act on the object.
(funcall actor elt)
(setq actions (1+ actions)))
((eq def 'skip)
;; Skip the object.
)
((eq def 'act-and-exit)
;; Act on the object and then exit.
(funcall actor elt)
(setq actions (1+ actions)
next (function (lambda () nil))))
((eq def 'quit)
(setq quit-flag t)
(setq next (` (lambda ()
(setq next '(, next))
'(, elt)))))
((eq def 'automatic)
;; Act on this and all following objects.
(if (eval (funcall prompter elt))
(progn
(funcall actor elt)
(setq actions (1+ actions))))
(while (funcall next)
(if (eval (funcall prompter elt))
(progn
(funcall actor elt)
(setq actions (1+ actions))))))
((eq def 'help)
(with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*"
(princ
(let ((object (if help (nth 0 help) "object"))
(objects (if help (nth 1 help) "objects"))
(action (if help (nth 2 help) "act on")))
(concat
(format "Type SPC or `y' to %s the current %s;
DEL or `n' to skip the current %s;
! to %s all remaining %s;
ESC or `q' to exit;\n"
action object object action objects)
(mapconcat (function
(lambda (elt)
(format "%c to %s"
(nth 0 elt)
(nth 2 elt))))
action-alist
";\n")
(if action-alist ";\n")
(format "or . (period) to %s \
the current %s and exit."
action object)))))
(setq next (` (lambda ()
(setq next '(, next))
'(, elt)))))
((vectorp def)
;; A user-defined key.
(if (funcall (aref def 0) elt) ;Call its function.
;; The function has eaten this object.
(setq actions (1+ actions))
;; Regurgitated; try again.
(setq next (` (lambda ()
(setq next '(, next))
'(, elt))))))
((and (consp char)
(eq (car char) 'switch-frame))
;; switch-frame event. Put it off until we're done.
(setq delayed-switch-frame char)
(setq next (` (lambda ()
(setq next '(, next))
'(, elt)))))
(t
;; Random char.
(message "Type %s for help."
(key-description (vector help-char)))
(beep)
(sit-for 1)
(setq next (` (lambda ()
(setq next '(, next))
'(, elt)))))))
(if (eval prompt)
(progn
(funcall actor elt)
(setq actions (1+ actions)))))))
(if delayed-switch-frame
(setq unread-command-events
(cons delayed-switch-frame unread-command-events))))
;; Clear the last prompt from the minibuffer.
(message "")
;; Return the number of actions that were taken.
actions))
;;; map-ynp.el ends here