emacs/lisp/xdg.el

;;; xdg.el --- XDG specification and standard support -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
;; Created: 27 January 2017
;; Keywords: files, data

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;; Library providing some convenience functions for the following XDG
;; standards and specifications
;;
;; - XDG Base Directory Specification
;; - Thumbnail Managing Standard
;; - xdg-user-dirs configuration

;;; Code:


;; XDG Base Directory Specification
;; https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

(defmacro xdg--dir-home (environ default-path)
  (declare (debug (stringp stringp)))
  (let ((env (make-symbol "env")))
    `(let ((,env (getenv ,environ)))
       (if (or (null ,env) (not (file-name-absolute-p ,env)))
           (expand-file-name ,default-path)
         ,env))))

(defun xdg-config-home ()
  "Return the base directory for user specific configuration files."
  (xdg--dir-home "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" "~/.config"))

(defun xdg-cache-home ()
  "Return the base directory for user specific cache files."
  (xdg--dir-home "XDG_CACHE_HOME" "~/.cache"))

(defun xdg-data-home ()
  "Return the base directory for user specific data files."
  (xdg--dir-home "XDG_DATA_HOME" "~/.local/share"))

(defun xdg-runtime-dir ()
  "Return the value of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR."
  (getenv "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"))

(defun xdg-config-dirs ()
  "Return the config directory search path as a list."
  (let ((env (getenv "XDG_CONFIG_DIRS")))
    (if (or (null env) (string= env ""))
        '("/etc/xdg")
      (parse-colon-path env))))

(defun xdg-data-dirs ()
  "Return the data directory search path as a list."
  (let ((env (getenv "XDG_DATA_DIRS")))
    (if (or (null env) (string= env ""))
        '("/usr/local/share/" "/usr/share/")
      (parse-colon-path env))))


;; Thumbnail Managing Standard
;; https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-latest.html

(defun xdg-thumb-uri (filename)
  "Return the canonical URI for FILENAME.
If FILENAME has absolute path /foo/bar.jpg, its canonical URI is
file:///foo/bar.jpg"
  (concat "file://" (expand-file-name filename)))

(defun xdg-thumb-name (filename)
  "Return the appropriate thumbnail filename for FILENAME."
  (concat (md5 (xdg-thumb-uri filename)) ".png"))

(defun xdg-thumb-mtime (filename)
  "Return modification time of FILENAME as integral seconds from the epoch."
  (floor (float-time (nth 5 (file-attributes filename)))))


;; XDG User Directories
;; https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/

(defconst xdg-line-regexp
  (eval-when-compile
    (rx "XDG_"
        (group-n 1 (or "DESKTOP" "DOWNLOAD" "TEMPLATES" "PUBLICSHARE"
                       "DOCUMENTS" "MUSIC" "PICTURES" "VIDEOS"))
        "_DIR=\""
        (group-n 2 (or "/" "$HOME/") (*? (or (not (any "\"")) "\\\"")))
        "\""))
  "Regexp matching non-comment lines in xdg-user-dirs config files.")

(defvar xdg-user-dirs nil
  "Alist of directory keys and values.")

(defun xdg--user-dirs-parse-line ()
  "Return pair of user-dirs key to directory value in LINE, otherwise nil.
This should be called at the beginning of a line."
  (skip-chars-forward "[:blank:]")
  (when (and (/= (following-char) ?#)
             (looking-at xdg-line-regexp))
    (let ((k (match-string 1))
          (v (match-string 2)))
      (when (and k v) (cons k v)))))

(defun xdg--user-dirs-parse-file (filename)
  "Return alist of xdg-user-dirs from FILENAME."
  (let (elt res)
    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert-file-contents filename)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (not (eobp))
        (setq elt (xdg--user-dirs-parse-line))
        (when (consp elt) (push elt res))
        (forward-line)))
    res))

(defun xdg-user-dir (name)
  "Return the path of user directory referred to by NAME."
  (when (null xdg-user-dirs)
    (setq xdg-user-dirs
          (xdg--user-dirs-parse-file
           (expand-file-name "user-dirs.dirs" (xdg-config-home)))))
  (cdr (assoc name xdg-user-dirs)))

(provide 'xdg)

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