;;; options.el --- edit Options command for Emacs ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org ;; Obsolete-since: 22.1 ;; 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: ;; This code provides functions to list and edit the values of all global ;; option variables known to loaded Emacs Lisp code. There are two entry ;; points, `list-options' and `edit' options'. The latter enters a major ;; mode specifically for editing option values. Do `M-x describe-mode' in ;; that context for more details. ;; The customization buffer feature is intended to make this obsolete. ;;; Code: ;;;###autoload (defun list-options () "Display a list of Emacs user options, with values and documentation. It is now better to use Customize instead." (interactive) (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*List Options*" (let (vars) (princ "This facility is obsolete; we recommend using M-x customize instead.") (mapatoms (function (lambda (sym) (if (custom-variable-p sym) (setq vars (cons sym vars)))))) (setq vars (sort vars 'string-lessp)) (while vars (let ((sym (car vars))) (when (boundp sym) (princ ";; ") (prin1 sym) (princ ":\n\t") (prin1 (symbol-value sym)) (terpri) (princ (substitute-command-keys (documentation-property sym 'variable-documentation))) (princ "\n;;\n")) (setq vars (cdr vars)))) (with-current-buffer "*List Options*" (Edit-options-mode) (setq buffer-read-only t))))) ;;;###autoload (defun edit-options () "Edit a list of Emacs user option values. Selects a buffer containing such a list, in which there are commands to set the option values. Type \\[describe-mode] in that buffer for a list of commands. The Custom feature is intended to make this obsolete." (interactive) (list-options) (pop-to-buffer "*List Options*")) (defvar Edit-options-mode-map (let ((map (make-keymap))) (define-key map "s" 'Edit-options-set) (define-key map "x" 'Edit-options-toggle) (define-key map "1" 'Edit-options-t) (define-key map "0" 'Edit-options-nil) (define-key map "p" 'backward-paragraph) (define-key map " " 'forward-paragraph) (define-key map "n" 'forward-paragraph) map) "") ;; Edit Options mode is suitable only for specially formatted data. (put 'Edit-options-mode 'mode-class 'special) (define-derived-mode Edit-options-mode emacs-lisp-mode "Options" "\\\ Major mode for editing Emacs user option settings. Special commands are: \\[Edit-options-set] -- set variable point points at. New value read using minibuffer. \\[Edit-options-toggle] -- toggle variable, t -> nil, nil -> t. \\[Edit-options-t] -- set variable to t. \\[Edit-options-nil] -- set variable to nil. Changed values made by these commands take effect immediately. Each variable description is a paragraph. For convenience, the characters \\[backward-paragraph] and \\[forward-paragraph] move back and forward by paragraphs." (setq-local paragraph-separate "[^\^@-\^?]") (setq-local paragraph-start "\t") (setq-local truncate-lines t)) (defun Edit-options-set () (interactive) (Edit-options-modify (lambda (var) (eval-minibuffer (concat "New " (symbol-name var) ": "))))) (defun Edit-options-toggle () (interactive) (Edit-options-modify (lambda (var) (not (symbol-value var))))) (defun Edit-options-t () (interactive) (Edit-options-modify (lambda (var) t))) (defun Edit-options-nil () (interactive) (Edit-options-modify (lambda (var) nil))) (defun Edit-options-modify (modfun) (save-excursion (let ((buffer-read-only nil) var pos) (re-search-backward "^;; \\|\\`") (forward-char 3) (setq pos (point)) (save-restriction (narrow-to-region pos (progn (end-of-line) (1- (point)))) (goto-char pos) (setq var (read (current-buffer)))) (goto-char pos) (forward-line 1) (forward-char 1) (save-excursion (set var (funcall modfun var))) (kill-sexp 1) (prin1 (symbol-value var) (current-buffer))))) (provide 'options) ;;; options.el ends here