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[xemacs-hg @ 2004-12-05 08:48:12 by ben] The section on Troubleshooting (now 2.3) has been completely written and includes a lot of stuff that is not properly documented anywhere else. A fair amount of obsolete info has been deleted and I've incorporated the comments that people (mostly Stephen T) made. Former chapter 3 has been split up in two, one pertaining to basic I/O and the other to external I/O. What were formerly chapters 5 and 6 no longer exist as such; the info in them has been distributed across various other chapters. Old chapter 4 got split up, part going to the new chapter 4 on external I/O and part going to the new chapter 5 on the Internet. In this new chapter, stuff not pertaining to a specific package (e.g. VM or GNUS) was taken out of package-specific sections and a general mail section was constituted. Part of old chapter 5 remains in a new chapter 6 devoted to Emacs Lisp and other advanced stuff, and a section from old chapter 3 on basic init-file Lisp and some stuff from old chapter 5 on Info. The rest of chapter 5 was just misc and has gotten scattered to the winds (mostly in chapters 3 and 4). Old chapter 6 has also gotten quite scattered; there is no longer any section specifically devoted to Windows except one of the Installation sections (along with a section specfically devoted to Unix), and the rest has moved to join the appropriate non-Windows-specific section elsewhere. A lot of chapters had their sections rearranged and likewise for sections having entries rearranged, with the intention that the new arrangement should be more natural. In general I hope that stuff should be much easier to locate. I also rewrote the entries on the relation between XEmacs and GNU Emacs on the authors of XEmacs, including lots of info on who wrote specific subsections. However, this history is certainly not complete; I hope people will look over this and fix it up as necessary.
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;;; map-ynp.el --- General-purpose boolean question-asker.

;; Copyright (C) 1991-1995, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
;; Keywords: lisp, extensions, dumped

;; This file is part of XEmacs.

;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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;; 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
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;; Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
;; 02111-1307, USA.

;;; Synched up with: Emacs/Mule zeta.

;;; Commentary:

;; This file is dumped with XEmacs.

;; map-y-or-n-p is a general-purpose question-asking function.
;; It asks a series of y/n questions (a la y-or-n-p), and decides to
;; applies an action to each element of a list based on the answer.
;; The nice thing is that you also get some other possible answers
;; to use, reminiscent of query-replace: ! to answer y to all remaining
;; questions; ESC or q to answer n to all remaining questions; . to answer
;; y once and then n for the remainder; and you can get help with C-h.

;;; Code:

(defun map-y-or-n-p (prompter actor list &optional help action-alist
			      no-cursor-in-echo-area)
  "Ask a series of boolean questions.
Takes args PROMPTER ACTOR LIST, and optional args HELP and ACTION-ALIST.

LIST is a list of objects, or a function of no arguments to return the next
object or nil.

If PROMPTER is a string, the prompt is \(format PROMPTER OBJECT\).  If not
a string, PROMPTER is a function of one arg (an object from LIST), which
returns a string to be used as the prompt for that object.  If the return
value is not a string, it may be nil to ignore the object or non-nil to act
on the object without asking the user.

ACTOR is a function of one arg (an object from LIST),
which gets called with each object that the user answers `yes' for.

If HELP is given, it is a list (OBJECT OBJECTS ACTION),
where OBJECT is a string giving the singular noun for an elt of LIST;
OBJECTS is the plural noun for elts of LIST, and ACTION is a transitive
verb describing ACTOR.  The default is \(\"object\" \"objects\" \"act on\"\).

At the prompts, the user may enter y, Y, or SPC to act on that object;
n, N, or DEL to skip that object; ! to act on all following objects;
ESC or q to exit (skip all following objects); . (period) to act on the
current object and then exit; or \\[help-command] to get help.

If ACTION-ALIST is given, it is an alist (KEY FUNCTION HELP) of extra keys
that will be accepted.  KEY is a character; FUNCTION is a function of one
arg (an object from LIST); HELP is a string.  When the user hits KEY,
FUNCTION is called.  If it returns non-nil, the object is considered
\"acted upon\", and the next object from LIST is processed.  If it returns
nil, the prompt is repeated for the same object.

Final optional argument NO-CURSOR-IN-ECHO-AREA non-nil says not to set
`cursor-in-echo-area' while prompting.

This function uses `query-replace-map' to define the standard responses,
but not all of the responses which `query-replace' understands
are meaningful here.

Returns the number of actions taken."
  (let* ((actions 0)
	 user-keys mouse-event map prompt char elt def
	 ;; Non-nil means we should use mouse menus to ask.
	 ;; use-menus
	 ;;delayed-switch-frame
	 (next (if (or (and list (symbolp list))
		       (subrp list)
		       (compiled-function-p list)
		       (and (consp list)
			    (eq (car list) 'lambda)))
		   #'(lambda () (setq elt (funcall list)))
		 #'(lambda ()
		     (if list
			 (progn
			   (setq elt (car list)
				 list (cdr list))
			   t)
		       nil)))))
    (if (should-use-dialog-box-p)
	;; Make a list describing a dialog box.
	(let (;; (object (capitalize (or (nth 0 help) "object")))
 	      ;; (objects (capitalize (or (nth 1 help) "objects")))
	      ;; (action (capitalize (or (nth 2 help) "act on")))
	      )
	  (setq map `(("%_Yes" . act) ("%_No" . skip)
; bogus crap.  --ben
;			((, (if help
;				(capitalize
;				 (or (nth 3 help)
;				     (concat action " All " objects)))
;			      "Do All")) . automatic)
;			((, (if help
;				(capitalize
;				 (or (nth 4 help)
;				     (concat action " " object " And Quit")))
;			      "Do it and Quit")) . act-and-exit)
;			((, (capitalize
;			     (or (and help (nth 5 help)) "Quit")))
;			 . exit)
			("Yes %_All" . automatic)
			("No A%_ll" . exit)
			("%_Cancel" . quit)
			,@(mapcar #'(lambda (elt)
				      (cons (capitalize (nth 2 elt))
					    (vector (nth 1 elt))))
				  action-alist))
		mouse-event last-command-event))
      (setq user-keys (if action-alist
			  (concat (mapconcat #'(lambda (elt)
						 (key-description
						  (if (characterp (car elt))
						      ;; XEmacs
						      (char-to-string (car elt))
						    (car elt))))
					     action-alist ", ")
				  " ")
			"")
	    ;; Make a map that defines each user key as a vector containing
	    ;; its definition.
	    ;; XEmacs
	    map (let ((foomap (make-sparse-keymap)))
		  (mapcar #'(lambda (elt)
			      (define-key
				foomap
				(if (characterp (car elt))
				    (char-to-string (car elt))
				  (car elt))
				(vector (nth 1 elt))))
			  action-alist)
		  (set-keymap-parents foomap (list query-replace-map))
		  foomap)))
    (unwind-protect
	(progn
	  (if (stringp prompter)
	      (setq prompter `(lambda (object)
				(format ,prompter object))))
	  (while (funcall next)
	    (setq prompt (funcall prompter elt))
	    (cond ((stringp prompt)
		   ;; Prompt the user about this object.
		   (setq quit-flag nil)
		   (if mouse-event ; XEmacs
		       (setq def (or (get-dialog-box-response
				      mouse-event
				      (cons prompt map))
				     'quit))
		     ;; Prompt in the echo area.
		     (let ((cursor-in-echo-area (not no-cursor-in-echo-area)))
		       (display-message
			'prompt
			(format "%s(y, n, !, ., q, %sor %s) "
				prompt user-keys
				(key-description (vector help-char))))
		       (setq char (next-command-event))
		       ;; Show the answer to the question.
		       (display-message
			'prompt
			(format
			 "%s(y, n, !, ., q, %sor %s) %s"
			 prompt user-keys
			 (key-description (vector help-char))
			 (single-key-description char))))
		     (setq def (lookup-key map (vector char))))
		   (cond ((eq def 'exit)
			  (setq next #'(lambda () nil)))
			 ((eq def 'act)
			  ;; Act on the object.
			  (funcall actor elt)
			  (setq actions (1+ actions)))
			 ((eq def 'skip)
			  ;; Skip the object.
			  )
			 ((eq def 'act-and-exit)
			  ;; Act on the object and then exit.
			  (funcall actor elt)
			  (setq actions (1+ actions)
				next (function (lambda () nil))))
			 ((or (eq def 'quit) (eq def 'exit-prefix))
			  (setq quit-flag t)
			  (setq next `(lambda ()
					(setq next ',next)
					  ',elt)))
			 ((eq def 'automatic)
			  ;; Act on this and all following objects.
			  ;; (if (funcall prompter elt) ; Emacs
			  (if (eval (funcall prompter elt))
			      (progn
				(funcall actor elt)
				(setq actions (1+ actions))))
			  (while (funcall next)
			    ;; (funcall prompter elt) ; Emacs
			    (if (eval (funcall prompter elt))
				(progn
				  (funcall actor elt)
				  (setq actions (1+ actions))))))
			 ((eq def 'help)
			  (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*"
			    (princ
			     (let ((object (if help (nth 0 help) "object"))
				   (objects (if help (nth 1 help) "objects"))
				   (action (if help (nth 2 help) "act on")))
			       (concat
				(format "Type SPC or `y' to %s the current %s;
DEL or `n' to skip the current %s;
! to %s all remaining %s;
ESC or `q' to exit;\n"
					action object object action objects)
				(mapconcat (function
					    (lambda (elt)
					      (format "%c to %s"
						      (nth 0 elt)
						      (normalize-menu-item-name
						       (nth 2 elt)))))
					   action-alist
					   ";\n")
				(if action-alist ";\n")
				(format "or . (period) to %s \
the current %s and exit."
					action object))))
			    (save-excursion
			      (set-buffer standard-output)
			      (help-mode)))

			  (setq next `(lambda ()
					(setq next ',next)
					',elt)))
			 ((vectorp def)
			  ;; A user-defined key.
			  (if (funcall (aref def 0) elt) ;Call its function.
			      ;; The function has eaten this object.
			      (setq actions (1+ actions))
			    ;; Regurgitated; try again.
			    (setq next `(lambda ()
					  (setq next ',next)
					  ',elt))))
			 ;((and (consp char) ; Emacs
			 ;	(eq (car char) 'switch-frame))
			 ; ;; switch-frame event.  Put it off until we're done.
			 ; (setq delayed-switch-frame char)
			 ; (setq next `(lambda ()
			 ;		 (setq next ',next)
			 ;		 ',elt)))
			 (t
			  ;; Random char.
			  (message "Type %s for help."
				   (key-description (vector help-char)))
			  (beep)
			  (sit-for 1)
			  (setq next `(lambda ()
					(setq next ',next)
					',elt)))))
		  ((eval prompt)
		   (progn
		     (funcall actor elt)
		     (setq actions (1+ actions)))))))
      ;;(if delayed-switch-frame
      ;;	   (setq unread-command-events
      ;;		 (cons delayed-switch-frame unread-command-events))))
      ;;		   ((eval prompt)
      ;;		    (progn
      ;;		      (funcall actor elt)
      ;;		      (setq actions (1+ actions)))))
      )
    ;; Clear the last prompt from the minibuffer.
    (clear-message 'prompt)
    ;; Return the number of actions that were taken.
    actions))

;;; map-ynp.el ends here