;;; fortune.el --- Use fortune to create signatures ;; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Holger Schauer ;; Keywords: games utils mail ;; This file is part of 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, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; This utility allows you to automatically cut regions to a fortune ;; file. In case that the region stems from an article buffer (mail or ;; news), it will try to automatically determine the author of the ;; fortune. It will also allow you to compile your fortune-database ;; as well as providing a function to extract a fortune for use as your ;; signature. ;; Of course, it can simply display a fortune, too. ;; Use prefix arguments to specify different fortune databases. ;;; Installation: ;; Please check the customize settings - you will at least have to modify the ;; values of `fortune-dir' and `fortune-file'. ;; I then use this in my .gnus: ;;(message "Making new signature: %s" (fortune-to-signature "~/fortunes/")) ;; This automagically creates a new signature when starting up Gnus. ;; Note that the call to fortune-to-signature specifies a directory in which ;; several fortune-files and their databases are stored. ;; If you like to get a new signature for every message, you can also hook ;; it into message-mode: ;; (add-hook 'message-setup-hook ;; '(lambda () ;; (fortune-to-signature))) ;; This time no fortune-file is specified, so fortune-to-signature would use ;; the default-file as specified by fortune-file. ;; I have also this in my .gnus: ;;(add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook ;; '(lambda () ;; (define-key gnus-article-mode-map "i" 'fortune-from-region))) ;; which allows marking a region and then pressing "i" so that the marked ;; region will be automatically added to my favourite fortune-file. ;;; Code: ;;; ************** ;;; Customizable Settings (defgroup fortune nil "Settings for fortune." :version "21.1" :group 'games) (defgroup fortune-signature nil "Settings for use of fortune for signatures." :group 'fortune :group 'mail) (defcustom fortune-dir "~/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/" "*The directory to look in for local fortune cookies files." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-file (expand-file-name "usenet" fortune-dir) "*The file in which local fortune cookies will be stored." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-database-extension ".dat" "The extension of the corresponding fortune database. Normally you won't have a reason to change it." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-program "fortune" "Program to select a fortune cookie." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-program-options "" "Options to pass to the fortune program." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-strfile "strfile" "Program to compute a new fortune database." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-strfile-options "" "Options to pass to the strfile program." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-quiet-strfile-options "> /dev/null" "Text added to the command for running `strfile'. By default it discards the output produced by `strfile'. Set this to \"\" if you would like to see the output." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-always-compile t "*Non-nil means automatically compile fortune files. If nil, you must invoke `fortune-compile' manually to do that." :group 'fortune) (defcustom fortune-author-line-prefix " -- " "Prefix to put before the author name of a fortunate." :group 'fortune-signature) (defcustom fortune-fill-column fill-column "Fill column for fortune files." :group 'fortune-signature) (defcustom fortune-from-mail "private e-mail" "String to use to characterize that the fortune comes from an e-mail. No need to add an `in'." :type 'string :group 'fortune-signature) (defcustom fortune-sigstart "" "*Some text to insert before the fortune cookie, in a mail signature." :group 'fortune-signature) (defcustom fortune-sigend "" "*Some text to insert after the fortune cookie, in a mail signature." :group 'fortune-signature) ;; not customizable settings (defvar fortune-buffer-name "*fortune*") (defconst fortune-end-sep "\n%\n") ;;; ************** ;;; Inserting a new fortune (defun fortune-append (string &optional interactive file) "Appends STRING to the fortune FILE. If INTERACTIVE is non-nil, don't compile the fortune file afterwards." (setq file (expand-file-name (substitute-in-file-name (or file fortune-file)))) (if (file-directory-p file) (error "Cannot append fortune to directory %s" file)) (if interactive ; switch to file and return buffer (find-file-other-frame file) (find-file-noselect file)) (let ((fortune-buffer (get-file-buffer file))) (set-buffer fortune-buffer) (goto-char (point-max)) (setq fill-column fortune-fill-column) (setq auto-fill-inhibit-regexp "^%") (turn-on-auto-fill) (insert string fortune-end-sep) (unless interactive (save-buffer) (if fortune-always-compile (fortune-compile file))))) (defun fortune-ask-file () "Asks the user for a file-name." (expand-file-name (read-file-name "Fortune file to use: " fortune-dir nil nil ""))) ;;; ###autoload (defun fortune-add-fortune (string file) "Add STRING to a fortune file FILE. Interactively, if called with a prefix argument, read the file name to use. Otherwise use the value of `fortune-file'." (interactive (list (read-string "Fortune: ") (if current-prefix-arg (fortune-ask-file)))) (fortune-append string t file)) ;;; ###autoload (defun fortune-from-region (beg end file) "Append the current region to a local fortune-like data file. Interactively, if called with a prefix argument, read the file name to use. Otherwise use the value of `fortune-file'." (interactive (list (region-beginning) (region-end) (if current-prefix-arg (fortune-ask-file)))) (let ((string (buffer-substring beg end)) author newsgroup help-point) ;; try to determine author ... (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (setq help-point (search-forward-regexp "^From: \\(.*\\)$" (point-max) t)) (if help-point (setq author (buffer-substring (match-beginning 1) help-point)) (setq author "An unknown author"))) ;; ... and newsgroup (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (setq help-point (search-forward-regexp "^Newsgroups: \\(.*\\)$" (point-max) t)) (if help-point (setq newsgroup (buffer-substring (match-beginning 1) help-point)) (setq newsgroup (if (or (eql major-mode 'gnus-article-mode) (eql major-mode 'vm-mode) (eql major-mode 'rmail-mode)) fortune-from-mail "unknown")))) ;; append entry to end of fortune file, and display result (setq string (concat "\"" string "\"" "\n" fortune-author-line-prefix author " in " newsgroup)) (fortune-append string t file))) ;;; ************** ;;; Compile new database with strfile ;;; ###autoload (defun fortune-compile (&optional file) "Compile fortune file. If called with a prefix asks for the FILE to compile, otherwise uses the value of `fortune-file'. This currently cannot handle directories." (interactive (list (if current-prefix-arg (fortune-ask-file) fortune-file))) (let* ((fortune-file (expand-file-name (substitute-in-file-name file))) (fortune-dat (expand-file-name (substitute-in-file-name (concat fortune-file fortune-database-extension))))) (cond ((file-exists-p fortune-file) (if (file-exists-p fortune-dat) (cond ((file-newer-than-file-p fortune-file fortune-dat) (message "Compiling new fortune database %s" fortune-dat) (shell-command (concat fortune-strfile fortune-strfile-options " " fortune-file fortune-quiet-strfile-options)))))) (t (error "Can't compile fortune file %s" fortune-file))))) ;;; ************** ;;; Use fortune for signature ;;; ###autoload (defun fortune-to-signature (&optional file) "Create signature from output of the fortune program. If called with a prefix asks for the FILE to choose the fortune from, otherwise uses the value of `fortune-file'. If you want to have fortune choose from a set of files in a directory, call interactively with prefix and choose the directory as the fortune-file." (interactive (list (if current-prefix-arg (fortune-ask-file) fortune-file))) (save-excursion (fortune-in-buffer (interactive-p) file) (set-buffer fortune-buffer-name) (let* ((fortune (buffer-string)) (signature (concat fortune-sigstart fortune fortune-sigend))) (setq mail-signature signature) (if (boundp 'message-signature) (setq message-signature signature))))) ;;; ************** ;;; Display fortune (defun fortune-in-buffer (interactive &optional file) "Put a fortune cookie in the *fortune* buffer. When INTERACTIVE is nil, don't display it. Optional argument FILE, when supplied, specifies the file to choose the fortune from." (let ((fortune-buffer (or (get-buffer fortune-buffer-name) (generate-new-buffer fortune-buffer-name))) (fort-file (expand-file-name (substitute-in-file-name (or file fortune-file))))) (save-excursion (set-buffer fortune-buffer) (toggle-read-only 0) (erase-buffer) (if fortune-always-compile (fortune-compile fort-file)) (call-process fortune-program ;; programm to call nil fortune-buffer nil ;; INFILE BUFFER DISPLAYP (concat fortune-program-options fort-file))))) ;;; ###autoload (defun fortune (&optional file) "Display a fortune cookie. If called with a prefix asks for the FILE to choose the fortune from, otherwise uses the value of `fortune-file'. If you want to have fortune choose from a set of files in a directory, call interactively with prefix and choose the directory as the fortune-file." (interactive (list (if current-prefix-arg (fortune-ask-file) fortune-file))) (fortune-in-buffer t file) (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer fortune-buffer-name)) (toggle-read-only 1)) ;;; Provide ourselves. (provide 'fortune) ;;; fortune.el ends here