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- ;;; help-macro.el --- Makes command line help such as help-for-help
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Author: Lynn Slater <lrs@indetech.com>
- ;; Created: : Mon Oct 1 11:42:39 1990
- ;; Adapted-By: ESR
- ;; Last Modified By: Lynn Slater x2048
- ;; Last Modified On: Mon Sep 23 14:40:19 1991
-
- ;; 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, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
- ;;
- ;; This file supplies the macro make-help-screen which constructs
- ;; single character dispatching with browsable help such as that provided
- ;; by help-for-help. This can be used to make many modes easier to use; for
- ;; example, the Gnu Emacs Empire Tool uses this for every "nested" mode map
- ;; called from the main mode map.
-
- ;; The name of this package was changed from help-screen.el to
- ;; help-macro.el in order to fit in a 14-character limit.
-
- ;;-> *********************** Example of use *********************************
-
- ;;->(make-help-screen help-for-empire-redistribute-map
- ;;-> "c:civ m:mil p:population f:food ?"
- ;;-> "You have discovered the GEET redistribution commands
- ;;-> From here, you can use the following options:
- ;;->
- ;;->c Redistribute civs from overfull sectors into connected underfull ones
- ;;-> The functions typically named by empire-ideal-civ-fcn control
- ;;-> based in part on empire-sector-civ-threshold
- ;;->m Redistribute military using levels given by empire-ideal-mil-fcn
- ;;->p Redistribute excess population to highways for max pop growth
- ;;-> Excess is any sector so full babies will not be born.
- ;;->f Even out food on highways to highway min and leave levels
- ;;-> This is good to pump max food to all warehouses/dist pts
- ;;->
- ;;->
- ;;->Use \\[help-for-empire-redistribute-map] for help on redistribution.
- ;;->Use \\[help-for-empire-extract-map] for help on data extraction.
- ;;->Please use \\[describe-key] to find out more about any of the other keys."
- ;;-> empire-shell-redistribute-map)
-
- ;;-> (define-key c-mp "\C-h" 'help-for-empire-redistribute-map)
- ;;-> (define-key c-mp help-character 'help-for-empire-redistribute-map)
-
- ;;; Change Log:
- ;;
- ;; 22-Jan-1991 Lynn Slater x2048
- ;; Last Modified: Mon Oct 1 11:43:52 1990 #3 (Lynn Slater)
- ;; documented better
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- (provide 'help-macro)
- (require 'backquote)
-
- (defmacro make-help-screen (fname help-line help-text helped-map)
- "Constructs function FNAME that when invoked shows HELP-LINE and if a help
- character is requested, shows HELP-TEXT. The user is prompted for a character
- from the HELPED-MAP and the corresponding interactive function is executed."
- (` (defun (, fname) ()
- (, help-text)
- (interactive)
- (let ((line-prompt
- (substitute-command-keys (, help-line))))
- (message line-prompt)
- (let ((char (read-event))
- config)
- (unwind-protect
- (progn
- (if (or (eq char ??) (eq char help-char))
- (progn
- (setq config (current-window-configuration))
- (switch-to-buffer-other-window "*Help*")
- (erase-buffer)
- (insert (documentation (quote (, fname))))
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (while (memq char (cons help-char '(?? ?\C-v ?\ ?\177 ?\M-v)))
- (if (memq char '(?\C-v ?\ ))
- (scroll-up))
- (if (memq char '(?\177 ?\M-v))
- (scroll-down))
- (message "%s%s: "
- line-prompt
- (if (pos-visible-in-window-p (point-max))
- "" " or Space to scroll"))
- (let ((cursor-in-echo-area t))
- (setq char (read-event))))))
-
- (let ((defn (cdr (assq (if (integerp char) (downcase char) char) (, helped-map)))))
- (if defn
- (if (keymapp defn)
- (error "sorry, this command cannot be run from the help screen. Start over.")
- (if config
- (progn
- (set-window-configuration config)
- (setq config nil)))
- (call-interactively defn))
- (if (listp char)
- (setq unread-command-events
- (cons char unread-command-events)
- config nil)
- (ding)))))
- (if config
- (set-window-configuration config))))))
- ))
-
- ;;; help-macro.el
-
-