emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/shadow.el

;;; shadow.el --- Locate Emacs Lisp file shadowings.

;; Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Terry Jones <terry@santafe.edu>
;; Keywords: lisp
;; Created: 15 December 1995

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;; The functions in this file detect (`find-emacs-lisp-shadows')
;; and display (`list-load-path-shadows') potential load-path
;; problems that arise when Emacs Lisp files "shadow" each other.
;;
;; For example, a file XXX.el early in one's load-path will shadow
;; a file with the same name in a later load-path directory.  When
;; this is unintentional, it may result in problems that could have
;; been easily avoided.  This occurs often (to me) when installing a
;; new version of emacs and something in the site-lisp directory
;; has been updated and added to the emacs distribution.  The old
;; version, now outdated, shadows the new one. This is obviously
;; undesirable.
;;
;; The `list-load-path-shadows' function was run when you installed
;; this version of emacs. To run it by hand in emacs:
;;
;;     M-x load-library RET shadow RET
;;     M-x list-load-path-shadows
;;
;; or run it non-interactively via:
;;
;;     emacs -batch -l shadow.el -f list-load-path-shadows
;;
;; Thanks to Francesco Potorti` <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> for suggestions,
;; rewritings & speedups.

;;; Code:

(defun find-emacs-lisp-shadows (&optional path)
  "Return a list of Emacs Lisp files that create shadows.
This function does the work for `list-load-path-shadows'.

We traverse PATH looking for shadows, and return a \(possibly empty\)
even-length list of files.  A file in this list at position 2i shadows
the file in position 2i+1.  Emacs Lisp file suffixes \(.el and .elc\)
are stripped from the file names in the list.

See the documentation for `list-load-path-shadows' for further information."
  
  (or path (setq path load-path))

  (let (true-names			; List of dirs considered.
	shadows				; List of shadowings, to be returned.
	files				; File names ever seen, with dirs.
	dir				; The dir being currently scanned.
	curr-files			; This dir's Emacs Lisp files.
	orig-dir			; Where the file was first seen.
	files-seen-this-dir		; Files seen so far in this dir.
	file)				; The current file.

  
    (while path

      (setq dir (file-truename (or (car path) ".")))
      (if (member dir true-names)
	  ;; We have already considered this PATH redundant directory.
	  ;; Show the redundancy if we are interactiver, unless the PATH
	  ;; dir is nil or "." (these redundant directories are just a
	  ;; result of the current working directory, and are therefore
	  ;; not always redundant).
	  (or noninteractive
	      (and (car path)
		   (not (string= (car path) "."))
		   (message "Ignoring redundant directory %s" (car path))))
	
	(setq true-names (append true-names (list dir)))
	(setq dir (or (car path) "."))
	(setq curr-files (if (file-accessible-directory-p dir)
                               (directory-files dir nil ".\\.elc?$" t)))
	(and curr-files
	     (not noninteractive)
	     (message "Checking %d files in %s..." (length curr-files) dir))
	
	(setq files-seen-this-dir nil)

	(while curr-files

	  (setq file (car curr-files))
	  (setq file (substring
		      file 0 (if (string= (substring file -1) "c") -4 -3)))

	  ;; 'file' now contains the current file name, with no suffix.
	  (if (member file files-seen-this-dir)
	      nil
	  	    
	    ;; File has not been seen yet in this directory.
	    ;; This test prevents us declaring that XXX.el shadows
	    ;; XXX.elc (or vice-versa) when they are in the same directory.
	    (setq files-seen-this-dir (cons file files-seen-this-dir))
	      
	    (if (setq orig-dir (assoc file files))
		;; This file was seen before, we have a shadowing.
		(setq shadows
		      (append shadows
			      (list (concat (cdr orig-dir) "/" file)
				    (concat dir "/" file))))

	      ;; Not seen before, add it to the list of seen files.
	      (setq files (cons (cons file dir) files))))

	  (setq curr-files (cdr curr-files))))
	(setq path (cdr path)))

    ;; Return the list of shadowings.
    shadows))


;;;###autoload
(defun list-load-path-shadows ()
  
  "Display a list of Emacs Lisp files that shadow other files.

This function lists potential load-path problems.  Directories in the
`load-path' variable are searched, in order, for Emacs Lisp
files.  When a previously encountered file name is found again, a
message is displayed indicating that the later file is \"hidden\" by
the earlier.

For example, suppose `load-path' is set to

\(\"/usr/gnu/emacs/site-lisp\" \"/usr/gnu/emacs/share/emacs/19.30/lisp\"\)

and that each of these directories contains a file called XXX.el.  Then
XXX.el in the site-lisp directory is referred to by all of:
\(require 'XXX\), \(autoload .... \"XXX\"\), \(load-library \"XXX\"\) etc.

The first XXX.el file prevents emacs from seeing the second \(unless
the second is loaded explicitly via load-file\).

When not intended, such shadowings can be the source of subtle
problems.  For example, the above situation may have arisen because the
XXX package was not distributed with versions of emacs prior to
19.30.  An emacs maintainer downloaded XXX from elsewhere and installed
it.  Later, XXX was updated and included in the emacs distribution.
Unless the emacs maintainer checks for this, the new version of XXX
will be hidden behind the old \(which may no longer work with the new
emacs version\).

This function performs these checks and flags all possible
shadowings.  Because a .el file may exist without a corresponding .elc
\(or vice-versa\), these suffixes are essentially ignored.  A file
XXX.elc in an early directory \(that does not contain XXX.el\) is
considered to shadow a later file XXX.el, and vice-versa.

When run interactively, the shadowings \(if any\) are displayed in a
buffer called `*Shadows*'.  Shadowings are located by calling the
\(non-interactive\) companion function, `find-emacs-lisp-shadows'."
  
  (interactive)
  (let* ((shadows (find-emacs-lisp-shadows))
	 (n (/ (length shadows) 2))
	 (msg (format "%s Emacs Lisp load-path shadowing%s found"
		      (if (zerop n) "No" (concat "\n" (number-to-string n)))
		      (if (= n 1) " was" "s were"))))
    (if (interactive-p)
	(save-excursion
	  ;; We are interactive.
	  ;; Create the *Shadows* buffer and display shadowings there.
	  (let ((output-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Shadows*")))
	    (display-buffer output-buffer)
	    (set-buffer output-buffer)
	    (erase-buffer)
	    (while shadows
	      (insert (format "%s hides %s\n" (car shadows)
			      (car (cdr shadows))))
	      (setq shadows (cdr (cdr shadows))))
	    (insert msg "\n")))
      ;; We are non-interactive, print shadows via message.
      (while shadows
	(message "%s hides %s" (car shadows) (car (cdr shadows)))
	(setq shadows (cdr (cdr shadows))))
      (message "%s" msg))))

(provide 'shadow)

;;; shadow.el ends here