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- ;;; map-ynp.el --- General-purpose boolean question-asker.
-
- ;;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- ;;; Written by Roland McGrath.
- ;;;
- ;;; 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 1, 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.
- ;;;
- ;;; 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.
-
- (defun map-y-or-n-p-help (object objects action)
- (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;
- or . (period) to %s the current %s and exit."
- action object object action objects action object))
-
- ;;;###autoload
- (defun map-y-or-n-p (prompter actor list &optional help)
- "Ask a series of boolean questions.
- Takes args PROMPTER ACTOR LIST, and optional arg HELP.
-
- 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.
-
- Returns the number of actions taken."
- (let* ((old-help-form help-form)
- (help-form (cons 'map-y-or-n-p-help
- (or help '("object" "objects" "act on"))))
- (actions 0)
- prompt
- char
- elt
- (next (if (or (symbolp list)
- (subrp list)
- (compiled-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))))))
- (if (stringp prompter)
- (setq prompter (` (lambda (object)
- (format (, prompter) object)))))
- (while (funcall next)
- (setq prompt (funcall prompter elt))
- (if (stringp prompt)
- (progn
- ;; Prompt the user about this object.
- (let ((cursor-in-echo-area t))
- (message "%s(y, n, ! ., q, or %s)"
- prompt (key-description (char-to-string help-char)))
- (setq char (read-char)))
- (cond ((or (= ?q char)
- (= ?\e char))
- (setq next (function (lambda () nil))))
- ((or (= ?y char)
- (= ?Y char)
- (= ? char))
- ;; Act on the object.
- (let ((help-form old-help-form))
- (funcall actor elt))
- (setq actions (1+ actions)))
- ((or (= ?n char)
- (= ?N char)
- (= ?\^? char))
- ;; Skip the object.
- )
- ((= ?. char)
- ;; Act on the object and then exit.
- (funcall actor elt)
- (setq actions (1+ actions)
- next (function (lambda () nil))))
- ((= ?! char)
- ;; 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))))))
- ((= ?? char)
- (setq unread-command-char help-char)
- (setq next (` (lambda ()
- (setq next '(, next))
- '(, elt)))))
- (t
- ;; Random char.
- (message "Type %s for help."
- (key-description (char-to-string help-char)))
- (beep)
- (sit-for 1)
- (setq next (` (lambda ()
- (setq next '(, next))
- '(, elt)))))))
- (if (eval prompt)
- (progn
- (funcall actor elt)
- (setq actions (1+ actions))))))
- ;; Clear the last prompt from the minibuffer.
- (message "")
- ;; Return the number of actions that were taken.
- actions))
-
- ;;; map-ynp.el ends here
-