;;; master.el --- make a buffer the master over another buffer ;; Copyright (C) 1999-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Alex Schroeder ;; Old-Version: 1.0.2 ;; Keywords: comm ;; 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: ;; master-mode is a minor mode which enables you to scroll another ;; buffer (the slave) without leaving your current buffer (the master). ;; It can be used by sql.el, for example: The SQL buffer is the master ;; and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi ;; buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the ;; commands. ;; ;; This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: The variable ;; sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the ;; SQL buffer. ;; ;; (add-hook 'sql-mode-hook ;; (lambda () ;; (master-mode t) ;; (master-set-slave sql-buffer))) ;; (add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook ;; (lambda () ;; (master-set-slave sql-buffer))) ;;; Thanks to all the people who helped me out: ;; ;; Rob Riepel ;;; History: ;; ;;; Code: ;; Unused. ;;; (defgroup master nil ;;; "Support for master/slave relationships between buffers." ;;; :version "22.1" ;;; :group 'convenience) ;; Variables that don't need initialization. (defvar master-of nil "Slave buffer of the current buffer. See `master-mode'. You can set this variable using `master-set-slave'.") (defvar master-set-slave-hook nil "Hook run after the slave is changed using \\[master-set-slave].") ;;; Define master mode. ;;;###autoload (define-minor-mode master-mode "Toggle Master mode. When Master mode is enabled, you can scroll the slave buffer using the following commands: \\{master-mode-map} The slave buffer is stored in the buffer-local variable `master-of'. You can set this variable using `master-set-slave'. You can show yourself the value of `master-of' by calling `master-show-slave'." ;; Not global, so no effect. ;;; :group 'master :keymap '(("\C-c\C-n" . master-says-scroll-up) ("\C-c\C-p" . master-says-scroll-down) ("\C-c<" . master-says-beginning-of-buffer) ("\C-c>" . master-says-end-of-buffer) ("\C-c\C-l" . master-says-recenter))) ;; Initialize Master mode by setting a slave buffer. (defun master-set-slave (buffer) "Makes BUFFER the slave of the current buffer. Use \\[master-mode] to toggle control of the slave buffer." (interactive "bSlave: ") (setq-local master-of buffer) (run-hooks 'master-set-slave-hook)) (defun master-show-slave () "Displays a message with the name of the slave buffer." (interactive) (message "This buffer is the master of %s. Master-mode is %S." (or master-of "none") master-mode)) ;;; Functions that the master buffer can call for the slave buffer. (defun master-says-scroll-up (&optional arg) "Display and scroll the slave buffer up. See `scroll-up'." (interactive) (master-says 'scroll-up arg)) (defun master-says-scroll-down (&optional arg) "Display and scroll the slave buffer down. See `scroll-down'." (interactive) (master-says 'scroll-down arg)) (defun master-says-beginning-of-buffer (&optional arg) "Display and move to the beginning of the slave buffer. See `beginning-of-buffer'." (interactive) (master-says 'beginning-of-buffer arg)) (defun master-says-end-of-buffer (&optional arg) "Display and move to the end of the slave buffer. See `end-of-buffer'." (interactive) (master-says 'end-of-buffer arg)) (defun master-says-recenter (&optional arg) "Recenter the slave buffer. See `recenter'." (interactive) (master-says 'recenter arg)) ;; The master function doing the stuff. (defun master-says (&optional command arg) "Display slave buffer and execute COMMAND with ARG in its window." (interactive) (if (null (buffer-live-p (get-buffer master-of))) (error "Slave buffer has disappeared") (let ((window (selected-window))) (if (not (eq (window-buffer window) (get-buffer master-of))) (switch-to-buffer-other-window master-of)) (if command (condition-case nil (apply command arg) (error nil))) (select-window window)))) (provide 'master) ;;; master.el ends here