;;; dirtrack.el --- Directory Tracking by watching the prompt ;; Copyright (C) 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, ;; 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Peter Breton ;; Created: Sun Nov 17 1996 ;; Keywords: processes ;; 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 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; Shell directory tracking by watching the prompt. ;; ;; This is yet another attempt at a directory-tracking package for ;; Emacs shell-mode. However, this package makes one strong assumption: ;; that you can customize your shell's prompt to contain the ;; current working directory. Most shells do support this, including ;; almost every type of Bourne and C shell on Unix, the native shells on ;; Windows95 (COMMAND.COM) and Windows NT (CMD.EXE), and most 3rd party ;; Windows shells. If you cannot do this, or do not wish to, this package ;; will be useless to you. ;; ;; Installation: ;; ;; 1) Set your shell's prompt to contain the current working directory. ;; You may need to consult your shell's documentation to find out how to ;; do this. ;; ;; Note that directory tracking is done by matching regular expressions, ;; therefore it is *VERY IMPORTANT* for your prompt to be easily ;; distinguishable from other output. If your prompt regexp is too general, ;; you will see error messages from the dirtrack filter as it attempts to cd ;; to non-existent directories. ;; ;; 2) Set the variable `dirtrack-list' to an appropriate value. This ;; should be a list of two elements: the first is a regular expression ;; which matches your prompt up to and including the pathname part. ;; The second is a number which tells which regular expression group to ;; match to extract only the pathname. If you use a multi-line prompt, ;; add 't' as a third element. Note that some of the functions in ;; 'comint.el' assume a single-line prompt (eg, comint-bol). ;; ;; Determining this information may take some experimentation. Setting ;; the variable `dirtrack-debug' may help; it causes the directory-tracking ;; filter to log messages to the buffer `dirtrack-debug-buffer'. You can easily ;; toggle this setting with the `dirtrack-debug-toggle' function. ;; ;; 3) Add a hook to shell-mode to enable the directory tracking: ;; ;; (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook ;; (lambda () (add-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions 'dirtrack nil t))) ;; ;; You may wish to turn ordinary shell tracking off by calling ;; `shell-dirtrack-toggle' or setting `shell-dirtrackp'. ;; ;; Examples: ;; ;; 1) On Windows NT, my prompt is set to emacs$S$P$G. ;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1) ;; ;; 2) On Solaris running bash, my prompt is set like this: ;; PS1="\w\012emacs@\h(\!) [\t]% " ;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^\\([/~].*\\)\nemacs@[^%]+% *" 1 t) ;; ;; I'd appreciate other examples from people who use this package. ;; ;; Here's one from Stephen Eglen: ;; ;; Running under tcsh: ;; (setq-default dirtrack-list '("^%E \\([^ ]+\\)" 1)) ;; ;; It might be worth mentioning in your file that emacs sources start up ;; files of the form: ~/.emacs_ where is the name of the ;; shell. So for example, I have the following in ~/.emacs_tcsh: ;; ;; set prompt = "%%E %~ %h% " ;; ;; This produces a prompt of the form: ;; %E /var/spool 10% ;; ;; This saves me from having to use the %E prefix in other non-emacs ;; shells. ;; ;; A final note: ;; ;; I run LOTS of shell buffers through Emacs, sometimes as different users ;; (eg, when logged in as myself, I'll run a root shell in the same Emacs). ;; If you do this, and the shell prompt contains a ~, Emacs will interpret ;; this relative to the user which owns the Emacs process, not the user ;; who owns the shell buffer. This may cause dirtrack to behave strangely ;; (typically it reports that it is unable to cd to a directory ;; with a ~ in it). ;; ;; The same behavior can occur if you use dirtrack with remote filesystems ;; (using telnet, rlogin, etc) as Emacs will be checking the local ;; filesystem, not the remote one. This problem is not specific to dirtrack, ;; but also affects file completion, etc. ;;; Code: (eval-when-compile (require 'comint) (require 'shell)) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Customization Variables ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defgroup dirtrack nil "Directory tracking by watching the prompt." :prefix "dirtrack-" :group 'shell) (defcustom dirtrack-list (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1) "List for directory tracking. First item is a regexp that describes where to find the path in a prompt. Second is a number, the regexp group to match. Optional third item is whether the prompt is multi-line. If nil or omitted, prompt is assumed to be on a single line." :group 'dirtrack :type '(sexp (regexp :tag "Prompt Expression") (integer :tag "Regexp Group") (boolean :tag "Multiline Prompt"))) (make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrack-list) (defcustom dirtrack-debug nil "If non-nil, the function `dirtrack' will report debugging info." :group 'dirtrack :type 'boolean) (defcustom dirtrack-debug-buffer "*Directory Tracking Log*" "Buffer to write directory tracking debug information." :group 'dirtrack :type 'string) (defcustom dirtrackp t "If non-nil, directory tracking via `dirtrack' is enabled." :group 'dirtrack :type 'boolean) (make-variable-buffer-local 'dirtrackp) (defcustom dirtrack-directory-function (if (memq system-type (list 'ms-dos 'windows-nt 'cygwin)) 'dirtrack-windows-directory-function 'file-name-as-directory) "Function to apply to the prompt directory for comparison purposes." :group 'dirtrack :type 'function) (defcustom dirtrack-canonicalize-function (if (memq system-type (list 'ms-dos 'windows-nt 'cygwin)) 'downcase 'identity) "Function to apply to the default directory for comparison purposes." :group 'dirtrack :type 'function) (defcustom dirtrack-directory-change-hook nil "Hook that is called when a directory change is made." :group 'dirtrack :type 'hook) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Functions ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defun dirtrack-windows-directory-function (dir) "Return a canonical directory for comparison purposes. Such a directory is all lowercase, has forward-slashes as delimiters, and ends with a forward slash." (file-name-as-directory (downcase (subst-char-in-string ?\\ ?/ dir)))) (defun dirtrack-cygwin-directory-function (dir) "Return a canonical directory taken from a Cygwin path for comparison purposes." (if (string-match "/cygdrive/\\([A-Z]\\)\\(.*\\)" dir) (concat (match-string 1 dir) ":" (match-string 2 dir)) dir)) ;; Copied from shell.el (defun dirtrack-toggle () "Enable or disable Dirtrack directory tracking in a shell buffer." (interactive) (if (setq dirtrackp (not dirtrackp)) (add-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions 'dirtrack nil t) (remove-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions 'dirtrack t)) (message "Directory tracking %s" (if dirtrackp "ON" "OFF"))) (defun dirtrack-debug-toggle () "Enable or disable Dirtrack debugging." (interactive) (setq dirtrack-debug (not dirtrack-debug)) (message "Directory debugging %s" (if dirtrack-debug "ON" "OFF")) (and dirtrack-debug (display-buffer (get-buffer-create dirtrack-debug-buffer)))) (defun dirtrack-debug-message (string) (let ((buf (current-buffer)) (debug-buf (get-buffer-create dirtrack-debug-buffer)) ) (set-buffer debug-buf) (goto-char (point-max)) (insert (concat string "\n")) (set-buffer buf) )) ;;;###autoload (defun dirtrack (input) "Determine the current directory by scanning the process output for a prompt. The prompt to look for is the first item in `dirtrack-list'. You can toggle directory tracking by using the function `dirtrack-toggle'. If directory tracking does not seem to be working, you can use the function `dirtrack-debug-toggle' to turn on debugging output. You can enable directory tracking by adding this function to `comint-output-filter-functions'." (if (or (null dirtrackp) ;; No output? (eq (point) (point-min))) nil (let (prompt-path (current-dir default-directory) (dirtrack-regexp (nth 0 dirtrack-list)) (match-num (nth 1 dirtrack-list)) ;; Currently unimplemented, it seems. --Stef (multi-line (nth 2 dirtrack-list))) (save-excursion ;; No match (if (null (string-match dirtrack-regexp input)) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message (format "Input `%s' failed to match `dirtrack-regexp'" input))) (setq prompt-path (match-string match-num input)) ;; Empty string (if (not (> (length prompt-path) 0)) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message "Match is empty string")) ;; Transform prompts into canonical forms (setq prompt-path (funcall dirtrack-directory-function prompt-path)) (setq current-dir (funcall dirtrack-canonicalize-function current-dir)) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message (format "Prompt is %s\nCurrent directory is %s" prompt-path current-dir))) ;; Compare them (if (or (string= current-dir prompt-path) (string= current-dir (abbreviate-file-name prompt-path))) (and dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message (format "Not changing directory"))) ;; It's possible that Emacs will think the directory ;; won't exist (eg, rlogin buffers) (if (file-accessible-directory-p prompt-path) ;; Change directory (and (shell-process-cd prompt-path) (run-hooks 'dirtrack-directory-change-hook) dirtrack-debug (dirtrack-debug-message (format "Changing directory to %s" prompt-path))) (error "Directory %s does not exist" prompt-path))) ))))) input) (provide 'dirtrack) ;; arch-tag: 168de071-be88-4937-aff6-2aba9f328d5a ;;; dirtrack.el ends here