;;; minibuf-eldef.el --- Only show defaults in prompts when applicable ;; ;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, ;; 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; ;; Author: Miles Bader ;; Keywords: convenience ;; 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: ;; ;; Defines the mode `minibuffer-electric-default-mode'. ;; ;; When active, minibuffer prompts that show a default value only show ;; the default when it's applicable -- that is, when hitting RET would ;; yield the default value. If the user modifies the input such that ;; hitting RET would enter a non-default value, the prompt is modified ;; to remove the default indication (which is restored if the input is ;; ever restore to the match the initial input). ;;; Code: (defvar minibuffer-default-in-prompt-regexps '(("\\( (default\\>.*)\\):? \\'" . 1) ("\\( \\[.*\\]\\):? *\\'" . 1)) "*A list of regexps matching the parts of minibuffer prompts showing defaults. When `minibuffer-electric-default-mode' is active, these regexps are used to identify the portions of prompts to elide. Each entry is either a string, which should be a regexp matching the default portion of the prompt, or a cons cell, who's car is a regexp matching the default part of the prompt, and who's cdr indicates the regexp subexpression that matched.") ;;; Internal variables ;; A list of minibuffers to which we've added a post-command-hook. (defvar minibuf-eldef-frobbed-minibufs nil) ;;; The following are all local variables in the minibuffer ;; Input pre-inserted into the minibuffer before the user can edit it. (defvar minibuf-eldef-initial-input) (make-variable-buffer-local 'minibuf-eldef-initial-input) ;; and the length of the buffer with it inserted. (defvar minibuf-eldef-initial-buffer-length) (make-variable-buffer-local 'minibuf-eldef-initial-buffer-length) ;; True if the current minibuffer prompt contains the default spec. (defvar minibuf-eldef-showing-default-in-prompt) (make-variable-buffer-local 'minibuf-eldef-showing-default-in-prompt) ;; An overlay covering the default portion of the prompt (defvar minibuf-eldef-overlay) (make-variable-buffer-local 'minibuf-eldef-overlay) ;;; Hook functions ;; This function goes on minibuffer-setup-hook (defun minibuf-eldef-setup-minibuffer () "Set up a minibuffer for `minibuffer-electric-default-mode'. The prompt and initial input should already have been inserted." (let ((regexps minibuffer-default-in-prompt-regexps) (match nil) (inhibit-point-motion-hooks t)) (save-excursion (save-restriction ;; Narrow to only the prompt (goto-char (point-min)) (narrow-to-region (point) (minibuffer-prompt-end)) ;; See the prompt contains a default input indicator (while regexps (setq match (pop regexps)) (if (re-search-forward (if (stringp match) match (car match)) nil t) (setq regexps nil) (setq match nil))))) (if (not match) ;; Nope, so just make sure our post-command-hook isn't left around. (remove-hook 'post-command-hook #'minibuf-eldef-update-minibuffer t) ;; Yup; set things up so we can frob the prompt as the state of ;; the input string changes. (setq match (if (consp match) (cdr match) 0)) (setq minibuf-eldef-overlay (make-overlay (match-beginning match) (match-end match))) (setq minibuf-eldef-showing-default-in-prompt t) (setq minibuf-eldef-initial-input (minibuffer-contents-no-properties)) (setq minibuf-eldef-initial-buffer-length (point-max)) (add-to-list 'minibuf-eldef-frobbed-minibufs (current-buffer)) (add-hook 'post-command-hook #'minibuf-eldef-update-minibuffer nil t)))) ;; post-command-hook to swap prompts when necessary (defun minibuf-eldef-update-minibuffer () "Update a minibuffer's prompt to include a default only when applicable. This is intended to be used as a minibuffer post-command-hook for `minibuffer-electric-default-mode'; the minibuffer should have already been set up by `minibuf-eldef-setup-minibuffer'." (unless (eq minibuf-eldef-showing-default-in-prompt (and (= (point-max) minibuf-eldef-initial-buffer-length) (string-equal (minibuffer-contents-no-properties) minibuf-eldef-initial-input))) ;; swap state (setq minibuf-eldef-showing-default-in-prompt (not minibuf-eldef-showing-default-in-prompt)) (cond (minibuf-eldef-showing-default-in-prompt (overlay-put minibuf-eldef-overlay 'invisible nil) (overlay-put minibuf-eldef-overlay 'intangible nil)) (t (overlay-put minibuf-eldef-overlay 'invisible t) (overlay-put minibuf-eldef-overlay 'intangible t))))) ;;; Note this definition must be at the end of the file, because ;;; `define-minor-mode' actually calls the mode-function if the ;;; associated variable is non-nil, which requires that all needed ;;; functions be already defined. [This is arguably a bug in d-m-m] ;;;###autoload (define-minor-mode minibuffer-electric-default-mode "Toggle Minibuffer Electric Default mode. When active, minibuffer prompts that show a default value only show the default when it's applicable -- that is, when hitting RET would yield the default value. If the user modifies the input such that hitting RET would enter a non-default value, the prompt is modified to remove the default indication. With prefix argument ARG, turn on if positive, otherwise off. Returns non-nil if the new state is enabled." :global t :group 'minibuffer (if minibuffer-electric-default-mode ;; Enable the mode (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'minibuf-eldef-setup-minibuffer) ;; Disable the mode (remove-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'minibuf-eldef-setup-minibuffer) ;; Remove our entry from any post-command-hook variable's it's still in (dolist (minibuf minibuf-eldef-frobbed-minibufs) (with-current-buffer minibuf (remove-hook 'post-command-hook #'minibuf-eldef-update-minibuffer t))) (setq minibuf-eldef-frobbed-minibufs nil))) (provide 'minibuf-eldef) ;; arch-tag: 7e421fae-c275-4729-b0da-7836af377d3d ;;; minibuf-eldef.el ends here