annotate lisp/map-ynp.el @ 6002:7507f44b1e5e

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;;; map-ynp.el --- General-purpose boolean question-asker.

;;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Roland McGrath <[e-mail]>
;; Keywords: lisp, extensions

;;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;;; any later version.
;;;
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;;; 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