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Some time-handling patches from Paul Eggert: * editfns.c (Fcurrent_time_zone): Take an optional argument specifying what (absolute) time should be used to determine the current time zone. Yield just offset and name of time zone, including DST correction. Yield time zone offset in seconds, not minutes. (lisp_time_argument, difftm): New functions. (Fcurrent_time_string): Use lisp_time_argument. * systime.h (EMACS_CURRENT_TIME_ZONE, EMACS_GET_TZ_OFFSET, EMACS_GET_TZ_NAMES): Remove. * config.h.in: Add HAVE_TM_ZONE.

;;; help-macro.el --- Makes command line help such as help-for-help

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

;; Author: Lynn Slater <[e-mail]>
;; 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.

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;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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;; 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-char)))
	       (if (or (= char ??) (= char help-char))
		   (save-window-excursion
		     (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-char))))))
	       (let ((defn (cdr (assq (downcase char) (, helped-map)))))
		 (if defn
		     (if (keymapp defn)
			 (error "sorry, this command cannot be run from the help screen. Start over.")
		       (call-interactively defn))
		   (ding))))))
     ))

;;; help-macro.el