;;; erc-truncate.el --- Functions for truncating ERC buffers -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2006-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Andreas Fuchs ;; Maintainer: Amin Bandali , F. Jason Park ;; URL: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErcTruncation ;; Keywords: IRC, chat, client, Internet, logging ;; 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 3 of the License, 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. If not, see . ;;; Commentary: ;; This implements buffer truncation (and optional log file writing ;; support for the Emacs IRC client. Use `erc-truncate-mode' to switch ;; on. Use `erc-enable-logging' to enable logging of the stuff which ;; is getting truncated. ;;; Code: (require 'erc) (defgroup erc-truncate nil "Truncate buffers when they reach a certain size." :group 'erc) (defcustom erc-max-buffer-size 30000 "Maximum size in chars of each ERC buffer. Used only when auto-truncation is enabled. \(see `erc-truncate-buffer' and `erc-insert-post-hook')." :type 'integer) ;;;###autoload(autoload 'erc-truncate-mode "erc-truncate" nil t) (define-erc-module truncate nil "Truncate a query buffer if it gets too large. This prevents the query buffer from getting too large, which can bring any grown Emacs to its knees after a few days worth of tracking heavy-traffic channels." ;;enable ((add-hook 'erc-insert-post-hook #'erc-truncate-buffer)) ;; disable ((remove-hook 'erc-insert-post-hook #'erc-truncate-buffer))) ;;;###autoload (defun erc-truncate-buffer-to-size (size &optional buffer) "Truncates the buffer to the size SIZE. If BUFFER is not provided, the current buffer is assumed. The deleted region is logged if `erc-logging-enabled' returns non-nil." ;; If buffer is non-nil, but get-buffer does not return anything, ;; then this is a bug. If buffer is a buffer name, get the buffer ;; object. If buffer is nil, use the current buffer. (if (not buffer) (setq buffer (current-buffer)) (unless (get-buffer buffer) (error "erc-truncate-buffer-to-size: %S is not a buffer" buffer))) (when (> (buffer-size buffer) (+ size 512)) (with-current-buffer buffer ;; Note that when erc-insert-post-hook runs, the buffer is ;; narrowed to the new message. So do this delicate widening. ;; I am not sure, I think this was not recommended behavior in ;; Emacs 20. (save-restriction (widen) (let ((end (- erc-insert-marker size))) ;; truncate at line boundaries (goto-char end) (beginning-of-line) (setq end (point)) ;; try to save the current buffer using ;; `erc-save-buffer-in-logs'. We use this, in case the ;; user has both `erc-save-buffer-in-logs' and ;; `erc-truncate-buffer' in `erc-insert-post-hook'. If ;; this is the case, only the non-saved part of the current ;; buffer should be saved. Rather than appending the ;; deleted part of the buffer to the log file. ;; ;; Alternatively this could be made conditional on: ;; (not (memq 'erc-save-buffer-in-logs ;; erc-insert-post-hook)) ;; Comments? (when (and (boundp 'erc-enable-logging) erc-enable-logging (erc-logging-enabled buffer)) (erc-save-buffer-in-logs)) ;; disable undoing for the truncating (buffer-disable-undo) (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (delete-region (point-min) end))) (buffer-enable-undo))))) ;;;###autoload (defun erc-truncate-buffer () "Truncates the current buffer to `erc-max-buffer-size'. Meant to be used in hooks, like `erc-insert-post-hook'." (interactive) (erc-truncate-buffer-to-size erc-max-buffer-size)) (provide 'erc-truncate) ;;; erc-truncate.el ends here ;; ;; Local Variables: ;; generated-autoload-file: "erc-loaddefs.el" ;; End: