lisp/talk.el

   1 ;;; talk.el --- allow several users to talk to each other through Emacs
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
   4 ;;   2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5
   6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   7 ;; Keywords: comm, frames
   8
   9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  10
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  15
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  20
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  23
  24 ;;; Commentary:
  25
  26 ;; This is a multi-user talk package that runs in Emacs.
  27 ;; Use talk-connect to bring a new person into the conversation.
  28
  29 ;;; Code:
  30
  31 (defvar talk-display-alist nil
  32   "Alist of displays on which Emacs talk is now running.
  33 Each element has the form (DISPLAY FRAME BUFFER).")
  34
  35 ;;;###autoload
  36 (defun talk-connect (display)
  37   "Connect to display DISPLAY for the Emacs talk group."
  38   (interactive "sTalk to display: ")
  39   ;; Make sure we have an entry for the current display.
  40   (let ((mydisp (cdr (assq 'display (frame-parameters (selected-frame))))))
  41     (talk-add-display mydisp))
  42   ;; Make sure we have an entry for the specified display.
  43   (talk-add-display display)
  44   ;; Add the new buffers to all talk frames.
  45   (talk-update-buffers))
  46
  47 ;;;###autoload
  48 (defun talk ()
  49   "Connect to the Emacs talk group from the current X display or tty frame."
  50   (interactive)
  51   (let ((type (frame-live-p (selected-frame)))
  52         (display (frame-terminal (selected-frame))))
  53     (if (or (eq type t) (eq type 'x))
  54         (talk-add-display
  55          (terminal-name (frame-terminal (selected-frame))))
  56       (error "Unknown frame type")))
  57   (talk-update-buffers))
  58
  59 (defun talk-add-display (display)
  60   (let* ((elt (assoc display talk-display-alist))
  61          (name (concat "*talk-" display "*"))
  62          frame buffer)
  63     (if (and elt (frame-live-p (nth 1 elt)))
  64         (setq frame (nth 1 elt))
  65       (setq frame (make-frame-on-display display (list (cons 'name name)))))
  66     (if (not (and elt (buffer-name (get-buffer (setq buffer (nth 2 elt))))))
  67         (setq buffer (get-buffer-create name)))
  68     (add-to-list 'delete-frame-functions 'talk-handle-delete-frame)
  69     (setq talk-display-alist
  70           (cons (list display frame buffer) (delq elt talk-display-alist)))))
  71
  72 (defun talk-handle-delete-frame (frame)
  73   (dolist (d talk-display-alist)
  74     (when (eq (nth 1 d) frame)
  75       (setq talk-display-alist (delq d talk-display-alist))
  76       (talk-update-buffers))))
  77
  78 (defun talk-disconnect ()
  79   "Disconnect this display from the Emacs talk group."
  80   (interactive)
  81   (let* ((mydisp (cdr (assq 'display (frame-parameters (selected-frame)))))
  82          (elt (assoc mydisp talk-display-alist)))
  83     (delete-frame (nth 1 elt))
  84     (kill-buffer (nth 2 elt))
  85     (setq talk-display-alist (delq elt talk-display-alist))
  86     (talk-update-buffers)))
  87
  88 (defun talk-update-buffers ()
  89   "Update all the talk frames so that each shows all the talk buffers."
  90   (let ((tail talk-display-alist))
  91     (while tail
  92       (let ((frame (nth 1 (car tail)))
  93             (this-buffer (nth 2 (car tail)))
  94             (buffers
  95              (mapcar (function (lambda (elt) (nth 2 elt)))
  96                      talk-display-alist)))
  97         ;; Put this display's own talk buffer
  98         ;; at the front of the list.
  99         (setq buffers (cons this-buffer (delq this-buffer buffers)))
 100         (talk-split-up-frame frame buffers))
 101       (setq tail (cdr tail)))))
 102
 103 (defun talk-split-up-frame (frame buffers)
 104   "Split FRAME into equal-sized windows displaying the buffers in BUFFERS.
 105 Select the first of these windows, displaying the first of the buffers."
 106   (let ((lines-per-buffer (/ (frame-height frame) (length buffers)))
 107         (old-frame (selected-frame)))
 108     (unwind-protect
 109         (progn
 110           (select-frame frame)
 111           (select-window (frame-first-window frame))
 112           (delete-other-windows)
 113           (while (progn
 114                    (switch-to-buffer (car buffers))
 115                    (setq buffers (cdr buffers)))
 116             (split-window-vertically lines-per-buffer)
 117             (other-window 1))
 118           (select-window (frame-first-window frame)))
 119       (select-frame old-frame))))
 120
 121 (provide 'talk)
 122
 123 ;;; talk.el ends here