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;;; reporter.el --- customizable bug reporting of lisp programs

;; Author: 1993 Barry A. Warsaw, Century Computing Inc. <[e-mail]>
;; Maintainer:      [e-mail]
;; Created:         19-Apr-1993
;; Version:         2.12
;; Last Modified:   1994/07/06 14:55:39
;; Keywords: bug reports lisp

;; Copyright (C) 1993 1994 Barry A. Warsaw
;; Copyright (C) 1993 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; 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:
;;
;; Introduction
;; ============
;; This program is for lisp package authors and can be used to ease
;; reporting of bugs.  When invoked, reporter-submit-bug-report will
;; set up a mail buffer with the appropriate bug report address,
;; including a lisp expression the maintainer of the package can eval
;; to completely reproduce the environment in which the bug was
;; observed (e.g. by using eval-last-sexp). This package proved especially
;; useful during my development of cc-mode.el, which is highly dependent
;; on its configuration variables.
;;
;; Do a "C-h f reporter-submit-bug-report" for more information.
;; Here's an example usage:
;;
;;(defconst mypkg-version "9.801")
;;(defconst mypkg-maintainer-address "[e-mail]")
;;(defun mypkg-submit-bug-report ()
;;  "Submit via mail a bug report on mypkg"
;;  (interactive)
;;  (require 'reporter)
;;  (reporter-submit-bug-report
;;   mypkg-maintainer-address
;;   (concat "mypkg.el " mypkg-version)
;;   (list 'mypkg-variable-1
;;         'mypkg-variable-2
;;         ;; ...
;;         'mypkg-variable-last)))

;; Major differences since version 1:
;; ==================================
;; * More robust in the face of void variables
;; * New interface controlling variable reporter-prompt-for-summary-p
;; * pretty-printing of lists!


;; Mailing List
;; ============
;; I've set up a mailing list to report bugs or suggest enhancements,
;; etc. This list's intended audience is elisp package authors who are
;; using reporter and want to stay current with releases. Here are the
;; relevent addresses:
;;
;; Administrivia: [e-mail]
;; Submissions:   [e-mail]

;; LCD Archive Entry:
;; reporter|Barry A. Warsaw|[e-mail]|
;; Customizable bug reporting of lisp programs.|
;; 1994/07/06 14:55:39|2.12|~/misc/reporter.el.Z|

;;; Code:


;; vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
;; user defined variables

(defvar reporter-mailer '(vm-mail mail)
  "*Mail package to use to generate bug report buffer.
This can either be a function symbol or a list of function symbols.
If a list, it tries to use each specified mailer in order until an
existing one is found.")

(defvar reporter-prompt-for-summary-p nil
  "Interface variable controlling prompting for problem summary.
When non-nil, `reporter-submit-bug-report' prompts the user for a
brief summary of the problem, and puts this summary on the Subject:
line.

Default behavior is to not prompt (i.e. nil). If you want reporter to
prompt, you should `let' bind this variable to t before calling
`reporter-submit-bug-report'.  Note that this variable is not
buffer-local so you should never just `setq' it.")


;; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
;; end of user defined variables

(defvar reporter-eval-buffer nil
  "Buffer to retrieve variable's value from.
This is necessary to properly support the printing of buffer-local
variables.  Current buffer will always be the mail buffer being
composed.")

(defconst reporter-version "2.12"
  "Reporter version number.")

(defvar reporter-initial-text nil
  "The automatically created initial text of a bug report.")
(make-variable-buffer-local 'reporter-initial-text)



(defun reporter-dump-variable (varsym mailbuf)
  ;; Pretty-print the value of the variable in symbol VARSYM.  MAILBUF
  ;; is the mail buffer being composed
  (condition-case nil
      (let ((val (save-excursion
		   (set-buffer reporter-eval-buffer)
		   (symbol-value varsym)))
	    (sym (symbol-name varsym))
	    (print-escape-newlines t)
	    (here (point)))
	(insert "     " sym " "
		(cond
		 ((memq val '(t nil)) "")
		 ((listp val) "'")
		 ((symbolp val) "'")
		 (t ""))
		(prin1-to-string val))
	;; clean up lists, but only if the line as printed was long
	;; enough to wrap
	(if (and (listp val)
		 (< (window-width) (current-column)))
	    (save-excursion
	      (goto-char here)
	      ;; skip past the symbol name
	      (down-list 1)
	      (condition-case nil	; actual loop exit
		  (while t
		    (forward-sexp 1)
		    (insert "\n")
		    ;; if the sexp is longer than a single line then
		    ;; fill it to fill-column
		    (if (< (window-width)
			   (save-excursion
			     (forward-char -1)
			     (current-column)))
			(let (stop)
			  (unwind-protect
			      (setq stop (point-marker))
			      (forward-line -1)
			      (fill-region (point) (progn (end-of-line)
							  (point)))
			      ;; consume extra newline left by fill-region
			      (delete-char 1)
			      (goto-char stop))
			  (set-marker stop nil)))
		    (lisp-indent-line))
		(error nil))))
	(insert "\n"))
    (void-variable
     (save-excursion
       (set-buffer mailbuf)
       (mail-position-on-field "X-Reporter-Void-Vars-Found")
       (end-of-line)
       (insert (symbol-name varsym) " ")))
    (error (error))))

(defun reporter-dump-state (pkgname varlist pre-hooks post-hooks)
  ;; Dump the state of the mode specific variables.
  ;; PKGNAME contains the name of the mode as it will appear in the bug
  ;; report (you must explicitly concat any version numbers).

  ;; VARLIST is the list of variables to dump.  Each element in
  ;; VARLIST can be a variable symbol, or a cons cell.  If a symbol,
  ;; this will be passed to `reporter-dump-variable' for insertion
  ;; into the mail buffer.  If a cons cell, the car must be a variable
  ;; symbol and the cdr must be a function which will be `funcall'd
  ;; with arguments the symbol and the mail buffer being composed. Use
  ;; this to write your own custom variable value printers for
  ;; specific variables.

  ;; Note that the global variable `reporter-eval-buffer' will be bound to
  ;; the buffer in which `reporter-submit-bug-report' was invoked.  If you
  ;; want to print the value of a buffer local variable, you should wrap
  ;; the `eval' call in your custom printer inside a `set-buffer' (and
  ;; probably a `save-excursion'). `reporter-dump-variable' handles this
  ;; properly.

  ;; PRE-HOOKS is run after the emacs-version and PKGNAME are inserted, but
  ;; before the VARLIST is dumped.  POST-HOOKS is run after the VARLIST is
  ;; dumped.
  (let ((buffer (current-buffer)))
    (set-buffer buffer)
    (insert "Emacs  : " (emacs-version) "\n")
    (and pkgname
	 (insert "Package: " pkgname "\n"))
    (run-hooks 'pre-hooks)
    (if (not varlist)
	nil
      (insert "\ncurrent state:\n==============\n")
      ;; create an emacs-lisp-mode buffer to contain the output, which
      ;; we'll later insert into the mail buffer
      (condition-case fault
	  (let ((mailbuf (current-buffer))
		(elbuf (get-buffer-create " *tmp-reporter-buffer*")))
	    (save-excursion
	      (set-buffer elbuf)
	      (emacs-lisp-mode)
	      (erase-buffer)
	      (insert "(setq\n")
	      (lisp-indent-line)
	      (mapcar
	       (function
		(lambda (varsym-or-cons-cell)
		  (let ((varsym (or (car-safe varsym-or-cons-cell)
				    varsym-or-cons-cell))
			(printer (or (cdr-safe varsym-or-cons-cell)
				     'reporter-dump-variable)))
		    (funcall printer varsym mailbuf)
		    )))
	       varlist)
	      (insert ")\n")
	      (beginning-of-defun)
	      (indent-sexp))
	    (insert-buffer elbuf))
	(error
	 (insert "State could not be dumped due to the following error:\n\n"
		 (format "%s" fault)
		 "\n\nYou should still send this bug report."))))
    (run-hooks 'post-hooks)
    ))


(defun reporter-calculate-separator ()
  ;; returns the string regexp matching the mail separator
  (save-excursion
    (re-search-forward
     (concat
      "^\\("				;beginning of line
      (mapconcat
       'identity
       (list "[\t ]*"			;simple SMTP form
	     "-+"			;mh-e form
	     (regexp-quote 
	      mail-header-separator))	;sendmail.el form
       "\\|")				;or them together
      "\\)$")				;end of line
     nil
     'move)				;search for and move
    (buffer-substring (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))))

;;;###autoload
(defun reporter-submit-bug-report
  (address pkgname varlist &optional pre-hooks post-hooks salutation)
  ;; Submit a bug report via mail.

  ;; ADDRESS is the email address for the package's maintainer. PKGNAME is
  ;; the name of the mode (you must explicitly concat any version numbers).
  ;; VARLIST is the list of variables to dump (see `reporter-dump-state'
  ;; for details). Optional PRE-HOOKS and POST-HOOKS are passed to
  ;; `reporter-dump-state'. Optional SALUTATION is inserted at the top of the
  ;; mail buffer, and point is left after the salutation.

  ;; This function will prompt for a summary if
  ;; reporter-prompt-for-summary-p is non-nil.

  ;; The mailer used is described in the variable `reporter-mailer'.
  (let ((reporter-eval-buffer (current-buffer))
	final-resting-place
	after-sep-pos
	(problem (and reporter-prompt-for-summary-p
		      (read-string "(Very) brief summary of problem: ")))
	(mailbuf
	 (progn
	   (call-interactively
	    (if (nlistp reporter-mailer)
		reporter-mailer
	      (let ((mlist reporter-mailer)
		    (mailer nil))
		(while mlist
		  (if (commandp (car mlist))
		      (setq mailer (car mlist)
			    mlist nil)
		    (setq mlist (cdr mlist))))
		(if (not mailer)
		    (error
		     "variable `%s' does not contain a command for mailing."
		     "reporter-mailer"))
		mailer)))
	   (current-buffer))))
    (require 'sendmail)
    (pop-to-buffer reporter-eval-buffer)
    (pop-to-buffer mailbuf)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    ;; different mailers use different separators, some may not even
    ;; use m-h-s, but sendmail.el stuff must have m-h-s bound.
    (let ((mail-header-separator (reporter-calculate-separator)))
      (mail-position-on-field "to")
      (insert address)
      ;; insert problem summary if available
      (if (and reporter-prompt-for-summary-p problem pkgname)
	  (progn
	    (mail-position-on-field "subject")
	    (insert pkgname "; " problem)))
      (re-search-forward mail-header-separator (point-max) 'move)
      (forward-line 1)
      (setq after-sep-pos (point))
      (and salutation (insert "\n" salutation "\n\n"))
      (unwind-protect
	  (progn
	    (setq final-resting-place (point-marker))
	    (insert "\n\n")
	    (reporter-dump-state pkgname varlist pre-hooks post-hooks)
	    (goto-char final-resting-place))
	(set-marker final-resting-place nil)))

    ;; save initial text and set up the `no-empty-submission' hook.
    ;; This only works for mailers that support mail-send-hook,
    ;; e.g. sendmail.el
    (if (fboundp 'add-hook)
	(progn
	  (save-excursion
	    (goto-char (point-max))
	    (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
	    (setq reporter-initial-text
		  (buffer-substring after-sep-pos (point))))
	  (make-variable-buffer-local 'mail-send-hook)
	  (add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'reporter-bug-hook)))

    ;; minibuf message
    ;; C-c C-c can't be generalized because they don't always run
    ;; mail-send-and-exit. E.g. vm-mail-send-and-exit.  I don't want
    ;; to hard code these.
    (let* ((sendkey "C-c C-c")
	   (killkey-whereis (where-is-internal 'kill-buffer nil t))
	   (killkey (if killkey-whereis
			(key-description killkey-whereis)
		      "M-x kill-buffer")))
      (message "Please type in your report. Hit %s to send, %s to abort."
	       sendkey killkey))
    ))

(defun reporter-bug-hook ()
  ;; prohibit sending mail if empty bug report
  (let ((after-sep-pos
	 (save-excursion
	   (beginning-of-buffer)
	   (re-search-forward (reporter-calculate-separator) (point-max) 'move)
	   (forward-line 1)
	   (point))))
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
      (if (and (= (- (point) after-sep-pos)
		  (length reporter-initial-text))
	       (string= (buffer-substring after-sep-pos (point))
			reporter-initial-text))
	  (error "Empty bug report cannot be sent."))
      )))


(provide 'reporter)

;;; reporter.el ends here