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- ;;; symbols.el --- functions for working with symbols and symbol values
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1996 Ben Wing.
-
- ;; This file is part of XEmacs.
-
- ;; XEmacs 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.
-
- ;; XEmacs 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 XEmacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
- ;; Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ;;; Synched up with: Not in FSF.
-
- ;;; Not yet dumped into XEmacs.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; The idea behind magic variables is that you can specify arbitrary
- ;; behavior to happen when setting or retrieving a variable's value. The
- ;; purpose of this is to make it possible to cleanly provide support for
- ;; obsolete variables (e.g. unread-command-event, which is obsolete for
- ;; unread-command-events) and variable compatibility
- ;; (e.g. suggest-key-bindings, the FSF equivalent of
- ;; teach-extended-commands-p and teach-extended-commands-timeout).
- ;;
- ;; There are a large number of functions pertaining to a variable's
- ;; value:
- ;;
- ;; boundp
- ;; globally-boundp
- ;; makunbound
- ;; symbol-value
- ;; set / setq
- ;; default-boundp
- ;; default-value
- ;; set-default / setq-default
- ;; make-variable-buffer-local
- ;; make-local-variable
- ;; kill-local-variable
- ;; kill-console-local-variable
- ;; symbol-value-in-buffer
- ;; symbol-value-in-console
- ;; local-variable-p / local-variable-if-set-p
- ;;
- ;; Plus some "meta-functions":
- ;;
- ;; defvaralias
- ;; variable-alias
- ;; indirect-variable
- ;;
- ;; I wanted an implementation that:
- ;;
- ;; -- would work with all the above functions, but (a) didn't require
- ;; a separate handler for every function, and (b) would work OK
- ;; even if more functions are added (e.g. `set-symbol-value-in-buffer'
- ;; or `makunbound-default') or if more arguments are added to a
- ;; function.
- ;; -- avoided consing if at all possible.
- ;; -- didn't slow down operations on non-magic variables (therefore,
- ;; storing the magic information using `put' is ruled out).
- ;;
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- ;; perhaps this should check whether the functions are bound, so that
- ;; some handlers can be unspecified. That requires that all functions
- ;; are defined before `define-magic-variable-handlers' is called,
- ;; though.
-
- ;; perhaps there should be something that combines
- ;; `define-magic-variable-handlers' with `defvaralias'.
-
- (defun define-magic-variable-handlers (variable handler-class harg)
- "Set the magic variable handles for VARIABLE to those in HANDLER-CLASS.
- HANDLER-CLASS should be a symbol. The handlers are constructed by adding
- the handler type to HANDLER-CLASS. HARG is passed as the HARG value for
- each of the handlers."
- (mapcar
- #'(lambda (htype)
- (set-magic-variable-handler variable htype
- (intern (concat (symbol-value handler-class)
- "-"
- (symbol-value htype)))
- harg))
- '(get-value set-value other-predicate other-action)))
-
- ;; unread-command-event
-
- (defun mvh-first-of-list-get-value (sym fun args harg)
- (car (apply fun harg args)))
-
- (defun mvh-first-of-list-set-value (sym value setfun getfun args harg)
- (apply setfun harg (cons value (apply getfun harg args)) args))
-
- (defun mvh-first-of-list-other-predicate (sym fun args harg)
- (apply fun harg args))
-
- (defun mvh-first-of-list-other-action (sym fun args harg)
- (apply fun harg args))
-
- (define-magic-variable-handlers 'unread-command-event
- 'mvh-first-of-list
- 'unread-command-events)
-
- ;; last-command-char, last-input-char, unread-command-char
-
- (defun mvh-char-to-event-get-value (sym fun args harg)
- (event-to-character (apply fun harg args)))
-
- (defun mvh-char-to-event-set-value (sym value setfun getfun args harg)
- (let ((event (apply getfun harg args)))
- (if (event-live-p event)
- nil
- (setq event (allocate-event))
- (apply setfun harg event args))
- (character-to-event value event)))
-
- (defun mvh-char-to-event-other-predicate (sym fun args harg)
- (apply fun harg args))
-
- (defun mvh-char-to-event-other-action (sym fun args harg)
- (apply fun harg args))
-
- (define-magic-variable-handlers 'last-command-char
- 'mvh-char-to-event
- 'last-command-event)
-
- (define-magic-variable-handlers 'last-input-char
- 'mvh-char-to-event
- 'last-input-event)
-
- (define-magic-variable-handlers 'unread-command-char
- 'mvh-char-to-event
- 'unread-command-event)
-
- ;; suggest-key-bindings
-
- (set-magic-variable-handler
- 'suggest-key-bindings 'get-value
- #'(lambda (sym fun args harg)
- (and (apply fun 'teach-extended-commands-p args)
- (apply fun 'teach-extended-commands-timeout args))))
-
- (set-magic-variable-handler
- 'suggest-key-bindings 'set-value
- #'(lambda (sym value setfun getfun args harg)
- (apply setfun 'teach-extended-commands-p (not (null value)) args)
- (if value
- (apply 'teach-extended-commands-timeout
- (if (numberp value) value 2) args))))
-
- (set-magic-variable-handler
- 'suggest-key-bindings 'other-action
- #'(lambda (sym fun args harg)
- (apply fun 'teach-extended-commands-p args)
- (apply fun 'teach-extended-commands-timeout args)))
-
- (set-magic-variable-handler
- 'suggest-key-bindings 'other-predicate
- #'(lambda (sym fun args harg)
- (and (apply fun 'teach-extended-commands-p args)
- (apply fun 'teach-extended-commands-timeout args))))
-