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1 ;;; advice.el --- An overloading mechanism for Emacs Lisp functions -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1993-1994, 2000-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Hans Chalupsky <hans@cs.buffalo.edu>
6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
7 ;; Created: 12 Dec 1992
8 ;; Keywords: extensions, lisp, tools
9 ;; Package: emacs
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27 ;; advice|Hans Chalupsky|hans@cs.buffalo.edu|
28 ;; Overloading mechanism for Emacs Lisp functions|
29 ;; 1994/08/05 03:42:04|2.14|~/packages/advice.el.Z|
32 ;;; Commentary:
34 ;; Advice is documented in the Emacs Lisp Manual.
36 ;; @ Introduction:
37 ;; ===============
38 ;; This package implements a full-fledged Lisp-style advice mechanism
39 ;; for Emacs Lisp. Advice is a clean and efficient way to modify the
40 ;; behavior of Emacs Lisp functions without having to keep personal
41 ;; modified copies of such functions around. A great number of such
42 ;; modifications can be achieved by treating the original function as a
43 ;; black box and specifying a different execution environment for it
44 ;; with a piece of advice. Think of a piece of advice as a kind of fancy
45 ;; hook that you can attach to any function/macro/subr.
47 ;; @ Highlights:
48 ;; =============
49 ;; - Clean definition of multiple, named before/around/after advices
50 ;; for functions and macros.
51 ;; - Full control over the arguments an advised function will receive,
52 ;; the binding environment in which it will be executed, as well as the
53 ;; value it will return.
54 ;; - Allows re/definition of interactive behavior for commands.
55 ;; - Every piece of advice can have its documentation string.
56 ;; - The execution of every piece of advice can be protected against error
57 ;; and non-local exits in preceding code or advices.
58 ;; - Simple argument access either by name, or, more portable but as
59 ;; efficient, via access macros
60 ;; - Allows the specification of a different argument list for the advised
61 ;; version of a function.
62 ;; - Advised functions can be byte-compiled either at file-compile time
63 ;; (see preactivation) or activation time.
64 ;; - Separation of advice definition and activation.
65 ;; - Forward advice is possible, that is
66 ;; as yet undefined or autoload functions can be advised without having to
67 ;; preload the file in which they are defined.
68 ;; - Forward redefinition is possible because around advice can be used to
69 ;; completely redefine a function.
70 ;; - A caching mechanism for advised definition provides for cheap deactivation
71 ;; and reactivation of advised functions.
72 ;; - Preactivation allows efficient construction and compilation of advised
73 ;; definitions at file compile time without giving up the flexibility of
74 ;; the advice mechanism.
75 ;; - En/disablement mechanism allows the use of different "views" of advised
76 ;; functions depending on what pieces of advice are currently en/disabled
77 ;; - Provides manipulation mechanisms for sets of advised functions via
78 ;; regular expressions that match advice names.
80 ;; @ Overview, or how to read this file:
81 ;; =====================================
82 ;; You can use `outline-mode' to help you read this documentation (set
83 ;; `outline-regexp' to `";; @+"').
85 ;; The four major sections of this file are:
87 ;; @ This initial information ...installation, customization etc.
88 ;; @ Advice documentation: ...general documentation
89 ;; @ Foo games: An advice tutorial ...teaches about Advice by example
90 ;; @ Advice implementation: ...actual code, yeah!!
92 ;; The latter three are actual headings which you can search for
93 ;; directly in case `outline-mode' doesn't work for you.
95 ;; @ Restrictions:
96 ;; ===============
97 ;; - Advised functions/macros/subrs will only exhibit their advised behavior
98 ;; when they are invoked via their function cell. This means that advice will
99 ;; not work for the following:
100 ;; + advised subrs that are called directly from other subrs or C-code
101 ;; + advised subrs that got replaced with their byte-code during
102 ;; byte-compilation (e.g., car)
103 ;; + advised macros which were expanded during byte-compilation before
104 ;; their advice was activated.
106 ;; @ Credits:
107 ;; ==========
108 ;; This package is an extension and generalization of packages such as
109 ;; insert-hooks.el written by Noah S. Friedman, and advise.el written by
110 ;; Raul J. Acevedo. Some ideas used in here come from these packages,
111 ;; others come from the various Lisp advice mechanisms I've come across
112 ;; so far, and a few are simply mine.
114 ;; @ Safety Rules and Emergency Exits:
115 ;; ===================================
116 ;; Before we begin: CAUTION!!
117 ;; Advice provides you with a lot of rope to hang yourself on very
118 ;; easily accessible trees, so, here are a few important things you
119 ;; should know:
121 ;; If you experience any strange behavior/errors etc. that you attribute to
122 ;; Advice or to some ill-advised function do one of the following:
124 ;; - M-x ad-deactivate FUNCTION (if you have a definite suspicion what
125 ;; function gives you problems)
126 ;; - M-x ad-deactivate-all (if you don't have a clue what's going wrong)
127 ;; - M-x ad-recover-normality (for real emergencies)
128 ;; - If none of the above solves your Advice-related problem go to another
129 ;; terminal, kill your Emacs process and send me some hate mail.
131 ;; The first two measures have restarts, i.e., once you've figured out
132 ;; the problem you can reactivate advised functions with either `ad-activate',
133 ;; or `ad-activate-all'. `ad-recover-normality' unadvises
134 ;; everything so you won't be able to reactivate any advised functions, you'll
135 ;; have to stick with their standard incarnations for the rest of the session.
137 ;; RELAX: Advice is pretty safe even if you are oblivious to the above.
138 ;; I use it extensively and haven't run into any serious trouble in a long
139 ;; time. Just wanted you to be warned.
141 ;; @ Customization:
142 ;; ================
144 ;; Look at the documentation of `ad-redefinition-action' for possible values
145 ;; of this variable. Its default value is `warn' which will print a warning
146 ;; message when an already defined advised function gets redefined with a
147 ;; new original definition and de/activated.
149 ;; Look at the documentation of `ad-default-compilation-action' for possible
150 ;; values of this variable. Its default value is `maybe' which will compile
151 ;; advised definitions during activation in case the byte-compiler is already
152 ;; loaded. Otherwise, it will leave them uncompiled.
154 ;; @ Motivation:
155 ;; =============
156 ;; Before I go on explaining how advice works, here are four simple examples
157 ;; how this package can be used. The first three are very useful, the last one
158 ;; is just a joke:
160 ;;(defadvice switch-to-buffer (before existing-buffers-only activate)
161 ;; "When called interactively switch to existing buffers only, unless
162 ;;when called with a prefix argument."
163 ;; (interactive
164 ;; (list (read-buffer "Switch to buffer: " (other-buffer)
165 ;; (null current-prefix-arg)))))
167 ;;(defadvice switch-to-buffer (around confirm-non-existing-buffers activate)
168 ;; "Switch to non-existing buffers only upon confirmation."
169 ;; (interactive "BSwitch to buffer: ")
170 ;; (if (or (get-buffer (ad-get-arg 0))
171 ;; (y-or-n-p (format "`%s' does not exist, create? " (ad-get-arg 0))))
172 ;; ad-do-it))
174 ;;(defadvice find-file (before existing-files-only activate)
175 ;; "Find existing files only"
176 ;; (interactive "fFind file: "))
178 ;;(defadvice car (around interactive activate)
179 ;; "Make `car' an interactive function."
180 ;; (interactive "xCar of list: ")
181 ;; ad-do-it
182 ;; (if (called-interactively-p 'interactive)
183 ;; (message "%s" ad-return-value)))
186 ;; @ Advice documentation:
187 ;; =======================
188 ;; Below is general documentation of the various features of advice. For more
189 ;; concrete examples check the corresponding sections in the tutorial part.
191 ;; @@ Terminology:
192 ;; ===============
193 ;; - Emacs: Emacs as released by the GNU Project
194 ;; - Advice: The name of this package.
195 ;; - advices: Short for "pieces of advice".
197 ;; @@ Defining a piece of advice with `defadvice':
198 ;; ===============================================
199 ;; The main means of defining a piece of advice is the macro `defadvice',
200 ;; there is no interactive way of specifying a piece of advice. A call to
201 ;; `defadvice' has the following syntax which is similar to the syntax of
202 ;; `defun/defmacro':
204 ;; (defadvice <function> (<class> <name> [<position>] [<arglist>] {<flags>}*)
205 ;; [ [<documentation-string>] [<interactive-form>] ]
206 ;; {<body-form>}* )
208 ;; <function> is the name of the function/macro/subr to be advised.
210 ;; <class> is the class of the advice which has to be one of `before',
211 ;; `around', `after', `activation' or `deactivation' (the last two allow
212 ;; definition of special act/deactivation hooks).
214 ;; <name> is the name of the advice which has to be a non-nil symbol.
215 ;; Names uniquely identify a piece of advice in a certain advice class,
216 ;; hence, advices can be redefined by defining an advice with the same class
217 ;; and name. Advice names are global symbols, hence, the same name space
218 ;; conventions used for function names should be applied.
220 ;; An optional <position> specifies where in the current list of advices of
221 ;; the specified <class> this new advice will be placed. <position> has to
222 ;; be either `first', `last' or a number that specifies a zero-based
223 ;; position (`first' is equivalent to 0). If no position is specified
224 ;; `first' will be used as a default. If this call to `defadvice' redefines
225 ;; an already existing advice (see above) then the position argument will
226 ;; be ignored and the position of the already existing advice will be used.
228 ;; An optional <arglist> which has to be a list can be used to define the
229 ;; argument list of the advised function. This argument list should of
230 ;; course be compatible with the argument list of the original function,
231 ;; otherwise functions that call the advised function with the original
232 ;; argument list in mind will break. If more than one advice specify an
233 ;; argument list then the first one (the one with the smallest position)
234 ;; found in the list of before/around/after advices will be used.
236 ;; <flags> is a list of symbols that specify further information about the
237 ;; advice. All flags can be specified with unambiguous initial substrings.
238 ;; `activate': Specifies that the advice information of the advised
239 ;; function should be activated right after this advice has been
240 ;; defined. In forward advices `activate' will be ignored.
241 ;; `protect': Specifies that this advice should be protected against
242 ;; non-local exits and errors in preceding code/advices.
243 ;; `compile': Specifies that the advised function should be byte-compiled.
244 ;; This flag will be ignored unless `activate' is also specified.
245 ;; `disable': Specifies that the defined advice should be disabled, hence,
246 ;; it will not be used in an activation until somebody enables it.
247 ;; `preactivate': Specifies that the advised function should get preactivated
248 ;; at macro-expansion/compile time of this `defadvice'. This
249 ;; generates a compiled advised definition according to the
250 ;; current advice state which will be used during activation
251 ;; if appropriate. Only use this if the `defadvice' gets
252 ;; actually compiled.
254 ;; An optional <documentation-string> can be supplied to document the advice.
255 ;; On call of the `documentation' function it will be combined with the
256 ;; documentation strings of the original function and other advices.
258 ;; An optional <interactive-form> form can be supplied to change/add
259 ;; interactive behavior of the original function. If more than one advice
260 ;; has an `(interactive ...)' specification then the first one (the one
261 ;; with the smallest position) found in the list of before/around/after
262 ;; advices will be used.
264 ;; A possibly empty list of <body-forms> specifies the body of the advice in
265 ;; an implicit progn. The body of an advice can access/change arguments,
266 ;; the return value, the binding environment, and can have all sorts of
267 ;; other side effects.
269 ;; @@ Assembling advised definitions:
270 ;; ==================================
271 ;; Suppose a function/macro/subr/special-form has N pieces of before advice,
272 ;; M pieces of around advice and K pieces of after advice. Assuming none of
273 ;; the advices is protected, its advised definition will look like this
274 ;; (body-form indices correspond to the position of the respective advice in
275 ;; that advice class):
277 ;; ([macro] lambda <arglist>
278 ;; [ [<advised-docstring>] [(interactive ...)] ]
279 ;; (let (ad-return-value)
280 ;; {<before-0-body-form>}*
281 ;; ....
282 ;; {<before-N-1-body-form>}*
283 ;; {<around-0-body-form>}*
284 ;; {<around-1-body-form>}*
285 ;; ....
286 ;; {<around-M-1-body-form>}*
287 ;; (setq ad-return-value
288 ;; <apply original definition to <arglist>>)
289 ;; {<other-around-M-1-body-form>}*
290 ;; ....
291 ;; {<other-around-1-body-form>}*
292 ;; {<other-around-0-body-form>}*
293 ;; {<after-0-body-form>}*
294 ;; ....
295 ;; {<after-K-1-body-form>}*
296 ;; ad-return-value))
298 ;; Macros are redefined as macros, hence the optional [macro] in the
299 ;; beginning of the definition.
301 ;; <arglist> is either the argument list of the original function or the
302 ;; first argument list defined in the list of before/around/after advices.
303 ;; The values of <arglist> variables can be accessed/changed in the body of
304 ;; an advice by simply referring to them by their original name, however,
305 ;; more portable argument access macros are also provided (see below).
307 ;; <advised-docstring> is an optional, special documentation string which will
308 ;; be expanded into a proper documentation string upon call of `documentation'.
310 ;; (interactive ...) is an optional interactive form either taken from the
311 ;; original function or from a before/around/after advice. For advised
312 ;; interactive subrs that do not have an interactive form specified in any
313 ;; advice we have to use (interactive) and then call the subr interactively
314 ;; if the advised function was called interactively, because the
315 ;; interactive specification of subrs is not accessible. This is the only
316 ;; case where changing the values of arguments will not have an affect
317 ;; because they will be reset by the interactive specification of the subr.
318 ;; If this is a problem one can always specify an interactive form in a
319 ;; before/around/after advice to gain control over argument values that
320 ;; were supplied interactively.
322 ;; Then the body forms of the various advices in the various classes of advice
323 ;; are assembled in order. The forms of around advice L are normally part of
324 ;; one of the forms of around advice L-1. An around advice can specify where
325 ;; the forms of the wrapped or surrounded forms should go with the special
326 ;; keyword `ad-do-it', which will run the forms of the surrounded code.
328 ;; The innermost part of the around advice onion is
329 ;; <apply original definition to <arglist>>
330 ;; whose form depends on the type of the original function. The variable
331 ;; `ad-return-value' will be set to its result. This variable is visible to
332 ;; all pieces of advice which can access and modify it before it gets returned.
334 ;; The semantic structure of advised functions that contain protected pieces
335 ;; of advice is the same. The only difference is that `unwind-protect' forms
336 ;; make sure that the protected advice gets executed even if some previous
337 ;; piece of advice had an error or a non-local exit. If any around advice is
338 ;; protected then the whole around advice onion will be protected.
340 ;; @@ Argument access in advised functions:
341 ;; ========================================
342 ;; As already mentioned, the simplest way to access the arguments of an
343 ;; advised function in the body of an advice is to refer to them by name.
344 ;; To do that, the advice programmer needs to know either the names of the
345 ;; argument variables of the original function, or the names used in the
346 ;; argument list redefinition given in a piece of advice. While this simple
347 ;; method might be sufficient in many cases, it has the disadvantage that it
348 ;; is not very portable because it hardcodes the argument names into the
349 ;; advice. If the definition of the original function changes the advice
350 ;; might break even though the code might still be correct. Situations like
351 ;; that arise, for example, if one advises a subr like `eval-region' which
352 ;; gets redefined in a non-advice style into a function by the edebug
353 ;; package. If the advice assumes `eval-region' to be a subr it might break
354 ;; once edebug is loaded. Similar situations arise when one wants to use the
355 ;; same piece of advice across different versions of Emacs.
357 ;; As a solution to that advice provides argument list access macros that get
358 ;; translated into the proper access forms at activation time, i.e., when the
359 ;; advised definition gets constructed. Access macros access actual arguments
360 ;; by position regardless of how these actual argument get distributed onto
361 ;; the argument variables of a function. The rational behind this is that in
362 ;; Emacs Lisp the semantics of an argument is strictly determined by its
363 ;; position (there are no keyword arguments).
365 ;; Suppose the function `foo' is defined as
367 ;; (defun foo (x y &optional z &rest r) ....)
369 ;; and is then called with
371 ;; (foo 0 1 2 3 4 5 6)
373 ;; which means that X=0, Y=1, Z=2 and R=(3 4 5 6). The assumption is that
374 ;; the semantics of an actual argument is determined by its position. It is
375 ;; this semantics that has to be known by the advice programmer. Then s/he
376 ;; can access these arguments in a piece of advice with some of the
377 ;; following macros (the arrows indicate what value they will return):
379 ;; (ad-get-arg 0) -> 0
380 ;; (ad-get-arg 1) -> 1
381 ;; (ad-get-arg 2) -> 2
382 ;; (ad-get-arg 3) -> 3
383 ;; (ad-get-args 2) -> (2 3 4 5 6)
384 ;; (ad-get-args 4) -> (4 5 6)
386 ;; `(ad-get-arg <position>)' will return the actual argument that was supplied
387 ;; at <position>, `(ad-get-args <position>)' will return the list of actual
388 ;; arguments supplied starting at <position>. Note that these macros can be
389 ;; used without any knowledge about the form of the actual argument list of
390 ;; the original function.
392 ;; Similarly, `(ad-set-arg <position> <value-form>)' can be used to set the
393 ;; value of the actual argument at <position> to <value-form>. For example,
395 ;; (ad-set-arg 5 "five")
397 ;; will have the effect that R=(3 4 "five" 6) once the original function is
398 ;; called. `(ad-set-args <position> <value-list-form>)' can be used to set
399 ;; the list of actual arguments starting at <position> to <value-list-form>.
400 ;; For example,
402 ;; (ad-set-args 0 '(5 4 3 2 1 0))
404 ;; will have the effect that X=5, Y=4, Z=3 and R=(2 1 0) once the original
405 ;; function is called.
407 ;; All these access macros are text macros rather than real Lisp macros. When
408 ;; the advised definition gets constructed they get replaced with actual access
409 ;; forms depending on the argument list of the advised function, i.e., after
410 ;; that argument access is in most cases as efficient as using the argument
411 ;; variable names directly.
413 ;; @@@ Accessing argument bindings of arbitrary functions:
414 ;; =======================================================
415 ;; Some functions (such as `trace-function' defined in trace.el) need a
416 ;; method of accessing the names and bindings of the arguments of an
417 ;; arbitrary advised function. To do that within an advice one can use the
418 ;; special keyword `ad-arg-bindings' which is a text macro that will be
419 ;; substituted with a form that will evaluate to a list of binding
420 ;; specifications, one for every argument variable. These binding
421 ;; specifications can then be examined in the body of the advice. For
422 ;; example, somewhere in an advice we could do this:
424 ;; (let* ((bindings ad-arg-bindings)
425 ;; (firstarg (car bindings))
426 ;; (secondarg (car (cdr bindings))))
427 ;; ;; Print info about first argument
428 ;; (print (format "%s=%s (%s)"
429 ;; (ad-arg-binding-field firstarg 'name)
430 ;; (ad-arg-binding-field firstarg 'value)
431 ;; (ad-arg-binding-field firstarg 'type)))
432 ;; ....)
434 ;; The `type' of an argument is either `required', `optional' or `rest'.
435 ;; Wherever `ad-arg-bindings' appears a form will be inserted that evaluates
436 ;; to the list of bindings, hence, in order to avoid multiple unnecessary
437 ;; evaluations one should always bind it to some variable.
439 ;; @@@ Argument list mapping:
440 ;; ==========================
441 ;; Because `defadvice' allows the specification of the argument list
442 ;; of the advised function we need a mapping mechanism that maps this
443 ;; argument list onto that of the original function. Hence SYM and
444 ;; NEWDEF have to be properly mapped onto the &rest variable when the
445 ;; original definition is called. Advice automatically takes care of
446 ;; that mapping, hence, the advice programmer can specify an argument
447 ;; list without having to know about the exact structure of the
448 ;; original argument list as long as the new argument list takes a
449 ;; compatible number/magnitude of actual arguments.
451 ;; @@ Activation and deactivation:
452 ;; ===============================
453 ;; The definition of an advised function does not change until all its advice
454 ;; gets actually activated. Activation can either happen with the `activate'
455 ;; flag specified in the `defadvice', with an explicit call or interactive
456 ;; invocation of `ad-activate', or at the time an already advised function
457 ;; gets defined.
459 ;; When a function gets first activated its original definition gets saved,
460 ;; all defined and enabled pieces of advice will get combined with the
461 ;; original definition, the resulting definition might get compiled depending
462 ;; on some conditions described below, and then the function will get
463 ;; redefined with the advised definition. This also means that undefined
464 ;; functions cannot get activated even though they might be already advised.
466 ;; The advised definition will get compiled either if `ad-activate' was called
467 ;; interactively with a prefix argument, or called explicitly with its second
468 ;; argument as t, or, if `ad-default-compilation-action' justifies it according
469 ;; to the current system state. If the advised definition was
470 ;; constructed during "preactivation" (see below) then that definition will
471 ;; be already compiled because it was constructed during byte-compilation of
472 ;; the file that contained the `defadvice' with the `preactivate' flag.
474 ;; `ad-deactivate' can be used to back-define an advised function to its
475 ;; original definition. It can be called interactively or directly. Because
476 ;; `ad-activate' caches the advised definition the function can be
477 ;; reactivated via `ad-activate' with only minor overhead (it is checked
478 ;; whether the current advice state is consistent with the cached
479 ;; definition, see the section on caching below).
481 ;; `ad-activate-regexp' and `ad-deactivate-regexp' can be used to de/activate
482 ;; all currently advised function that have a piece of advice with a name that
483 ;; contains a match for a regular expression. These functions can be used to
484 ;; de/activate sets of functions depending on certain advice naming
485 ;; conventions.
487 ;; Finally, `ad-activate-all' and `ad-deactivate-all' can be used to
488 ;; de/activate all currently advised functions. These are useful to
489 ;; (temporarily) return to an un/advised state.
491 ;; @@@ Reasons for the separation of advice definition and activation:
492 ;; ===================================================================
493 ;; As already mentioned, advising happens in two stages:
495 ;; 1) definition of various pieces of advice
496 ;; 2) activation of all advice currently defined and enabled
498 ;; The advantage of this is that various pieces of advice can be defined
499 ;; before they get combined into an advised definition which avoids
500 ;; unnecessary constructions of intermediate advised definitions. The more
501 ;; important advantage is that it allows the implementation of forward advice.
502 ;; Advice information for a certain function accumulates as the value of the
503 ;; `advice-info' property of the function symbol. This accumulation is
504 ;; completely independent of the fact that that function might not yet be
505 ;; defined. The macros `defun' and `defmacro' check whether the
506 ;; function/macro they defined had advice information
507 ;; associated with it. If so and forward advice is enabled, the original
508 ;; definition will be saved, and then the advice will be activated.
510 ;; @@ Enabling/disabling pieces or sets of advice:
511 ;; ===============================================
512 ;; A major motivation for the development of this advice package was to bring
513 ;; a little bit more structure into the function overloading chaos in Emacs
514 ;; Lisp. Many packages achieve some of their functionality by adding a little
515 ;; bit (or a lot) to the standard functionality of some Emacs Lisp function.
516 ;; ange-ftp is a very popular package that used to achieve its magic by
517 ;; overloading most Emacs Lisp functions that deal with files. A popular
518 ;; function that's overloaded by many packages is `expand-file-name'.
519 ;; The situation that one function is multiply overloaded can arise easily.
521 ;; Once in a while it would be desirable to be able to disable some/all
522 ;; overloads of a particular package while keeping all the rest. Ideally -
523 ;; at least in my opinion - these overloads would all be done with advice,
524 ;; I know I am dreaming right now... In that ideal case the enable/disable
525 ;; mechanism of advice could be used to achieve just that.
527 ;; Every piece of advice is associated with an enablement flag. When the
528 ;; advised definition of a particular function gets constructed (e.g., during
529 ;; activation) only the currently enabled pieces of advice will be considered.
530 ;; This mechanism allows one to have different "views" of an advised function
531 ;; dependent on what pieces of advice are currently enabled.
533 ;; Another motivation for this mechanism is that it allows one to define a
534 ;; piece of advice for some function yet keep it dormant until a certain
535 ;; condition is met. Until then activation of the function will not make use
536 ;; of that piece of advice. Once the condition is met the advice can be
537 ;; enabled and a reactivation of the function will add its functionality as
538 ;; part of the new advised definition. Hence, if somebody
539 ;; else advised these functions too and activates them the advices defined
540 ;; by advice will get used only if they are intended to be used.
542 ;; The main interface to this mechanism are the interactive functions
543 ;; `ad-enable-advice' and `ad-disable-advice'. For example, the following
544 ;; would disable a particular advice of the function `foo':
546 ;; (ad-disable-advice 'foo 'before 'my-advice)
548 ;; This call by itself only changes the flag, to get the proper effect in
549 ;; the advised definition too one has to activate `foo' with
551 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
553 ;; or interactively. To disable whole sets of advices one can use a regular
554 ;; expression mechanism. For example, let us assume that ange-ftp actually
555 ;; used advice to overload all its functions, and that it used the
556 ;; "ange-ftp-" prefix for all its advice names, then we could temporarily
557 ;; disable all its advices with
559 ;; (ad-disable-regexp "\\`ange-ftp-")
561 ;; and the following call would put that actually into effect:
563 ;; (ad-activate-regexp "\\`ange-ftp-")
565 ;; A safer way would have been to use
567 ;; (ad-update-regexp "\\`ange-ftp-")
569 ;; instead which would have only reactivated currently actively advised
570 ;; functions, but not functions that were currently inactive. All these
571 ;; functions can also be called interactively.
573 ;; A certain piece of advice is considered a match if its name contains a
574 ;; match for the regular expression. To enable ange-ftp again we would use
575 ;; `ad-enable-regexp' and then activate or update again.
577 ;; @@ Forward advice, automatic advice activation:
578 ;; ===============================================
579 ;; Because most Emacs Lisp packages are loaded on demand via an autoload
580 ;; mechanism it is essential to be able to "forward advise" functions.
581 ;; Otherwise, proper advice definition and activation would make it necessary
582 ;; to preload every file that defines a certain function before it can be
583 ;; advised, which would partly defeat the purpose of the advice mechanism.
585 ;; In the following, "forward advice" always implies its automatic activation
586 ;; once a function gets defined, and not just the accumulation of advice
587 ;; information for a possibly undefined function.
589 ;; Advice implements forward advice mainly via the following: 1) Separation
590 ;; of advice definition and activation that makes it possible to accumulate
591 ;; advice information without having the original function already defined,
592 ;; 2) Use of the `defalias-fset-function' symbol property which lets
593 ;; us advise the function when it gets defined.
595 ;; Automatic advice activation means, that whenever a function gets defined
596 ;; with either `defun', `defmacro', `defalias' or by loading a byte-compiled
597 ;; file, and the function has some advice-info stored with it then that
598 ;; advice will get activated right away.
600 ;; @@ Caching of advised definitions:
601 ;; ==================================
602 ;; After an advised definition got constructed it gets cached as part of the
603 ;; advised function's advice-info so it can be reused, for example, after an
604 ;; intermediate deactivation. Because the advice-info of a function might
605 ;; change between the time of caching and reuse a cached definition gets
606 ;; a cache-id associated with it so it can be verified whether the cached
607 ;; definition is still valid (the main application of this is preactivation
608 ;; - see below).
610 ;; When an advised function gets activated and a verifiable cached definition
611 ;; is available, then that definition will be used instead of creating a new
612 ;; advised definition from scratch. If you want to make sure that a new
613 ;; definition gets constructed then you should use `ad-clear-cache' before you
614 ;; activate the advised function.
616 ;; @@ Preactivation:
617 ;; =================
618 ;; Constructing an advised definition is moderately expensive. In a situation
619 ;; where one package defines a lot of advised functions it might be
620 ;; prohibitively expensive to do all the advised definition construction at
621 ;; runtime. Preactivation is a mechanism that allows compile-time construction
622 ;; of compiled advised definitions that can be activated cheaply during
623 ;; runtime. Preactivation uses the caching mechanism to do that. Here's how
624 ;; it works:
626 ;; When the byte-compiler compiles a `defadvice' that has the `preactivate'
627 ;; flag specified, it uses the current original definition of the advised
628 ;; function plus the advice specified in this `defadvice' (even if it is
629 ;; specified as disabled) and all other currently enabled pieces of advice to
630 ;; construct an advised definition and an identifying cache-id and makes them
631 ;; part of the `defadvice' expansion which will then be compiled by the
632 ;; byte-compiler.
633 ;; When the file with the compiled, preactivating `defadvice' gets loaded the
634 ;; precompiled advised definition will be cached on the advised function's
635 ;; advice-info. When it gets activated (can be immediately on execution of the
636 ;; `defadvice' or any time later) the cache-id gets checked against the
637 ;; current state of advice and if it is verified the precompiled definition
638 ;; will be used directly (the verification is pretty cheap). If it couldn't
639 ;; get verified a new advised definition for that function will be built from
640 ;; scratch, hence, the efficiency added by the preactivation mechanism does not
641 ;; at all impair the flexibility of the advice mechanism.
643 ;; MORAL: In order get all the efficiency out of preactivation the advice
644 ;; state of an advised function at the time the file with the
645 ;; preactivating `defadvice' gets byte-compiled should be exactly
646 ;; the same as it will be when the advice of that function gets
647 ;; actually activated. If it is not there is a high chance that the
648 ;; cache-id will not match and hence a new advised definition will
649 ;; have to be constructed at runtime.
651 ;; Preactivation and forward advice do not contradict each other. It is
652 ;; perfectly ok to load a file with a preactivating `defadvice' before the
653 ;; original definition of the advised function is available. The constructed
654 ;; advised definition will be used once the original function gets defined and
655 ;; its advice gets activated. The only constraint is that at the time the
656 ;; file with the preactivating `defadvice' got compiled the original function
657 ;; definition was available.
659 ;; TIPS: Here are some indications that a preactivation did not work the way
660 ;; you intended it to work:
661 ;; - Activation of the advised function takes longer than usual/expected
662 ;; - The byte-compiler gets loaded while an advised function gets
663 ;; activated
664 ;; - `byte-compile' is part of the `features' variable even though you
665 ;; did not use the byte-compiler
666 ;; Right now advice does not provide an elegant way to find out whether
667 ;; and why a preactivation failed. What you can do is to trace the
668 ;; function `ad-cache-id-verification-code' (with the function
669 ;; `trace-function-background' defined in my trace.el package) before
670 ;; any of your advised functions get activated. After they got
671 ;; activated check whether all calls to `ad-cache-id-verification-code'
672 ;; returned `verified' as a result. Other values indicate why the
673 ;; verification failed which should give you enough information to
674 ;; fix your preactivation/compile/load/activation sequence.
676 ;; IMPORTANT: There is one case (that I am aware of) that can make
677 ;; preactivation fail, i.e., a preconstructed advised definition that does
678 ;; NOT match the current state of advice gets used nevertheless. That case
679 ;; arises if one package defines a certain piece of advice which gets used
680 ;; during preactivation, and another package incompatibly redefines that
681 ;; very advice (i.e., same function/class/name), and it is the second advice
682 ;; that is available when the preconstructed definition gets activated, and
683 ;; that was the only definition of that advice so far (`ad-add-advice'
684 ;; catches advice redefinitions and clears the cache in such a case).
685 ;; Catching that would make the cache verification too expensive.
687 ;; MORAL-II: Redefining somebody else's advice is BAAAAD (to speak with
688 ;; George Walker Bush), and why would you redefine your own advice anyway?
689 ;; Advice is a mechanism to facilitate function redefinition, not advice
690 ;; redefinition (wait until I write Meta-Advice :-). If you really have
691 ;; to undo somebody else's advice, try to write a "neutralizing" advice.
693 ;; @@ Advising macros and other dangerous things:
694 ;; ==============================================
695 ;; Look at the corresponding tutorial sections for more information on
696 ;; these topics. Here it suffices to point out that the special treatment
697 ;; of macros can lead to problems when they get advised. Macros can create
698 ;; problems because they get expanded at compile or load time, hence, they
699 ;; might not have all the necessary runtime support and such advice cannot be
700 ;; de/activated or changed as it is possible for functions.
702 ;; Special forms cannot be advised.
704 ;; MORAL: - Only advise macros when you are absolutely sure what you are doing.
706 ;; @@ Adding a piece of advice with `ad-add-advice':
707 ;; =================================================
708 ;; The non-interactive function `ad-add-advice' can be used to add a piece of
709 ;; advice to some function without using `defadvice'. This is useful if advice
710 ;; has to be added somewhere by a function (also look at `ad-make-advice').
712 ;; @@ Activation/deactivation advices, file load hooks:
713 ;; ====================================================
714 ;; There are two special classes of advice called `activation' and
715 ;; `deactivation'. The body forms of these advices are not included into the
716 ;; advised definition of a function, rather they are assembled into a hook
717 ;; form which will be evaluated whenever the advice-info of the advised
718 ;; function gets activated or deactivated. One application of this mechanism
719 ;; is to define file load hooks for files that do not provide such hooks.
720 ;; For example, suppose you want to print a message whenever `file-x' gets
721 ;; loaded, and suppose the last function defined in `file-x' is
722 ;; `file-x-last-fn'. Then we can define the following advice:
724 ;; (defadvice file-x-last-fn (activation file-x-load-hook)
725 ;; "Executed whenever file-x is loaded"
726 ;; (if load-in-progress (message "Loaded file-x")))
728 ;; This will constitute a forward advice for function `file-x-last-fn' which
729 ;; will get activated when `file-x' is loaded (only if forward advice is
730 ;; enabled of course). Because there are no "real" pieces of advice
731 ;; available for it, its definition will not be changed, but the activation
732 ;; advice will be run during its activation which is equivalent to having a
733 ;; file load hook for `file-x'.
735 ;; @@ Summary of main advice concepts:
736 ;; ===================================
737 ;; - Definition:
738 ;; A piece of advice gets defined with `defadvice' and added to the
739 ;; `advice-info' property of a function.
740 ;; - Enablement:
741 ;; Every piece of advice has an enablement flag associated with it. Only
742 ;; enabled advices are considered during construction of an advised
743 ;; definition.
744 ;; - Activation:
745 ;; Redefine an advised function with its advised definition. Constructs
746 ;; an advised definition from scratch if no verifiable cached advised
747 ;; definition is available and caches it.
748 ;; - Deactivation:
749 ;; Back-define an advised function to its original definition.
750 ;; - Update:
751 ;; Reactivate an advised function but only if its advice is currently
752 ;; active. This can be used to bring all currently advised function up
753 ;; to date with the current state of advice without also activating
754 ;; currently inactive functions.
755 ;; - Caching:
756 ;; Is the saving of an advised definition and an identifying cache-id so
757 ;; it can be reused, for example, for activation after deactivation.
758 ;; - Preactivation:
759 ;; Is the construction of an advised definition according to the current
760 ;; state of advice during byte-compilation of a file with a preactivating
761 ;; `defadvice'. That advised definition can then rather cheaply be used
762 ;; during activation without having to construct an advised definition
763 ;; from scratch at runtime.
765 ;; @@ Summary of interactive advice manipulation functions:
766 ;; ========================================================
767 ;; The following interactive functions can be used to manipulate the state
768 ;; of advised functions (all of them support completion on function names,
769 ;; advice classes and advice names):
771 ;; - ad-activate to activate the advice of a FUNCTION
772 ;; - ad-deactivate to deactivate the advice of a FUNCTION
773 ;; - ad-update to activate the advice of a FUNCTION unless it was not
774 ;; yet activated or is currently inactive.
775 ;; - ad-unadvise deactivates a FUNCTION and removes all of its advice
776 ;; information, hence, it cannot be activated again
777 ;; - ad-recover tries to redefine a FUNCTION to its original definition and
778 ;; discards all advice information (a low-level `ad-unadvise').
779 ;; Use only in emergencies.
781 ;; - ad-remove-advice removes a particular piece of advice of a FUNCTION.
782 ;; You still have to do call `ad-activate' or `ad-update' to
783 ;; activate the new state of advice.
784 ;; - ad-enable-advice enables a particular piece of advice of a FUNCTION.
785 ;; - ad-disable-advice disables a particular piece of advice of a FUNCTION.
786 ;; - ad-enable-regexp maps over all currently advised functions and enables
787 ;; every advice whose name contains a match for a regular
788 ;; expression.
789 ;; - ad-disable-regexp disables matching advices.
791 ;; - ad-activate-regexp activates all advised function with a matching advice
792 ;; - ad-deactivate-regexp deactivates all advised function with matching advice
793 ;; - ad-update-regexp updates all advised function with a matching advice
794 ;; - ad-activate-all activates all advised functions
795 ;; - ad-deactivate-all deactivates all advised functions
796 ;; - ad-update-all updates all advised functions
797 ;; - ad-unadvise-all unadvises all advised functions
798 ;; - ad-recover-all recovers all advised functions
800 ;; - ad-compile byte-compiles a function/macro if it is compilable.
802 ;; @@ Summary of forms with special meanings when used within an advice:
803 ;; =====================================================================
804 ;; ad-return-value name of the return value variable (get/settable)
805 ;; (ad-get-arg <pos>), (ad-get-args <pos>),
806 ;; (ad-set-arg <pos> <value>), (ad-set-args <pos> <value-list>)
807 ;; argument access text macros to get/set the values of
808 ;; actual arguments at a certain position
809 ;; ad-arg-bindings text macro that returns the actual names, values
810 ;; and types of the arguments as a list of bindings. The
811 ;; order of the bindings corresponds to the order of the
812 ;; arguments. The individual fields of every binding (name,
813 ;; value and type) can be accessed with the function
814 ;; `ad-arg-binding-field' (see example above).
815 ;; ad-do-it text macro that identifies the place where the original
816 ;; or wrapped definition should go in an around advice
819 ;; @ Foo games: An advice tutorial
820 ;; ===============================
821 ;; The following tutorial was created in Emacs 18.59. Left-justified
822 ;; s-expressions are input forms followed by one or more result forms.
824 ;; We start by defining an innocent looking function `foo' that simply
825 ;; adds 1 to its argument X:
827 ;; (defun foo (x)
828 ;; "Add 1 to X."
829 ;; (1+ x))
830 ;; foo
832 ;; (foo 3)
833 ;; 4
835 ;; @@ Defining a simple piece of advice:
836 ;; =====================================
837 ;; Now let's define the first piece of advice for `foo'. To do that we
838 ;; use the macro `defadvice' which takes a function name, a list of advice
839 ;; specifiers and a list of body forms as arguments. The first element of
840 ;; the advice specifiers is the class of the advice, the second is its name,
841 ;; the third its position and the rest are some flags. The class of our
842 ;; first advice is `before', its name is `fg-add2', its position among the
843 ;; currently defined before advices (none so far) is `first', and the advice
844 ;; will be `activate'ed immediately. Advice names are global symbols, hence,
845 ;; the name space conventions used for function names should be applied. All
846 ;; advice names in this tutorial will be prefixed with `fg' for `Foo Games'
847 ;; (because everybody has the right to be inconsistent all the function names
848 ;; used in this tutorial do NOT follow this convention).
850 ;; In the body of an advice we can refer to the argument variables of the
851 ;; original function by name. Here we add 1 to X so the effect of calling
852 ;; `foo' will be to actually add 2. All of the advice definitions below only
853 ;; have one body form for simplicity, but there is no restriction to that
854 ;; extent. Every piece of advice can have a documentation string which will
855 ;; be combined with the documentation of the original function.
857 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-add2 first activate)
858 ;; "Add 2 to X."
859 ;; (setq x (1+ x)))
860 ;; foo
862 ;; (foo 3)
863 ;; 5
865 ;; @@ Specifying the position of an advice:
866 ;; ========================================
867 ;; Now we define the second before advice which will cancel the effect of
868 ;; the previous advice. This time we specify the position as 0 which is
869 ;; equivalent to `first'. A number can be used to specify the zero-based
870 ;; position of an advice among the list of advices in the same class. This
871 ;; time we already have one before advice hence the position specification
872 ;; actually has an effect. So, after the following definition the position
873 ;; of the previous advice will be 1 even though we specified it with `first'
874 ;; above, the reason for this is that the position argument is relative to
875 ;; the currently defined pieces of advice which by now has changed.
877 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-cancel-add2 0 activate)
878 ;; "Again only add 1 to X."
879 ;; (setq x (1- x)))
880 ;; foo
882 ;; (foo 3)
883 ;; 4
885 ;; @@ Redefining a piece of advice:
886 ;; ================================
887 ;; Now we define an advice with the same class and same name but with a
888 ;; different position. Defining an advice in a class in which an advice with
889 ;; that name already exists is interpreted as a redefinition of that
890 ;; particular advice, in which case the position argument will be ignored
891 ;; and the previous position of the redefined piece of advice is used.
892 ;; Advice flags can be specified with non-ambiguous initial substrings, hence,
893 ;; from now on we'll use `act' instead of the verbose `activate'.
895 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-cancel-add2 last act)
896 ;; "Again only add 1 to X."
897 ;; (setq x (1- x)))
898 ;; foo
900 ;; @@ Assembly of advised documentation:
901 ;; =====================================
902 ;; The documentation strings of the various pieces of advice are assembled
903 ;; in order which shows that advice `fg-cancel-add2' is still the first
904 ;; `before' advice even though we specified position `last' above:
906 ;; (documentation 'foo)
907 ;; "Add 1 to X.
909 ;; This function is advised with the following advice(s):
911 ;; fg-cancel-add2 (before):
912 ;; Again only add 1 to X.
914 ;; fg-add2 (before):
915 ;; Add 2 to X."
917 ;; @@ Advising interactive behavior:
918 ;; =================================
919 ;; We can make a function interactive (or change its interactive behavior)
920 ;; by specifying an interactive form in one of the before or around
921 ;; advices (there could also be body forms in this advice). The particular
922 ;; definition always assigns 5 as an argument to X which gives us 6 as a
923 ;; result when we call foo interactively:
925 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-inter last act)
926 ;; "Use 5 as argument when called interactively."
927 ;; (interactive (list 5)))
928 ;; foo
930 ;; (call-interactively 'foo)
931 ;; 6
933 ;; If more than one advice have an interactive declaration, then the one of
934 ;; the advice with the smallest position will be used (before advices go
935 ;; before around and after advices), hence, the declaration below does
936 ;; not have any effect:
938 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-inter2 last act)
939 ;; (interactive (list 6)))
940 ;; foo
942 ;; (call-interactively 'foo)
943 ;; 6
945 ;; @@ Around advices:
946 ;; ==================
947 ;; Now we'll try some `around' advices. An around advice is a wrapper around
948 ;; the original definition. It can shadow or establish bindings for the
949 ;; original definition, and it can look at and manipulate the value returned
950 ;; by the original function. The position of the special keyword `ad-do-it'
951 ;; specifies where the code of the original function will be executed. The
952 ;; keyword can appear multiple times which will result in multiple calls of
953 ;; the original function in the resulting advised code. Note, that if we don't
954 ;; specify a position argument (i.e., `first', `last' or a number), then
955 ;; `first' (or 0) is the default):
957 ;; (defadvice foo (around fg-times-2 act)
958 ;; "First double X."
959 ;; (let ((x (* x 2)))
960 ;; ad-do-it))
961 ;; foo
963 ;; (foo 3)
964 ;; 7
966 ;; Around advices are assembled like onion skins where the around advice
967 ;; with position 0 is the outermost skin and the advice at the last position
968 ;; is the innermost skin which is directly wrapped around the call of the
969 ;; original definition of the function. Hence, after the next `defadvice' we
970 ;; will first multiply X by 2 then add 1 and then call the original
971 ;; definition (i.e., add 1 again):
973 ;; (defadvice foo (around fg-add-1 last act)
974 ;; "Add 1 to X."
975 ;; (let ((x (1+ x)))
976 ;; ad-do-it))
977 ;; foo
979 ;; (foo 3)
980 ;; 8
982 ;; @@ Controlling advice activation:
983 ;; =================================
984 ;; In every `defadvice' so far we have used the flag `activate' to activate
985 ;; the advice immediately after its definition, and that's what we want in
986 ;; most cases. However, if we define multiple pieces of advice for a single
987 ;; function then activating every advice immediately is inefficient. A
988 ;; better way to do this is to only activate the last defined advice.
989 ;; For example:
991 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-times-x)
992 ;; "Multiply the result with X."
993 ;; (setq ad-return-value (* ad-return-value x)))
994 ;; foo
996 ;; This still yields the same result as before:
997 ;; (foo 3)
998 ;; 8
1000 ;; Now we define another advice and activate which will also activate the
1001 ;; previous advice `fg-times-x'. Note the use of the special variable
1002 ;; `ad-return-value' in the body of the advice which is set to the result of
1003 ;; the original function. If we change its value then the value returned by
1004 ;; the advised function will be changed accordingly:
1006 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-times-x-again act)
1007 ;; "Again multiply the result with X."
1008 ;; (setq ad-return-value (* ad-return-value x)))
1009 ;; foo
1011 ;; Now the advices have an effect:
1013 ;; (foo 3)
1014 ;; 72
1016 ;; @@ Protecting advice execution:
1017 ;; ===============================
1018 ;; Once in a while we define an advice to perform some cleanup action,
1019 ;; for example:
1021 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-cleanup last act)
1022 ;; "Do some cleanup."
1023 ;; (print "Let's clean up now!"))
1024 ;; foo
1026 ;; However, in case of an error the cleanup won't be performed:
1028 ;; (condition-case error
1029 ;; (foo t)
1030 ;; (error 'error-in-foo))
1031 ;; error-in-foo
1033 ;; To make sure a certain piece of advice gets executed even if some error or
1034 ;; non-local exit occurred in any preceding code, we can protect it by using
1035 ;; the `protect' keyword. (if any of the around advices is protected then the
1036 ;; whole around advice onion will be protected):
1038 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-cleanup prot act)
1039 ;; "Do some protected cleanup."
1040 ;; (print "Let's clean up now!"))
1041 ;; foo
1043 ;; Now the cleanup form will be executed even in case of an error:
1045 ;; (condition-case error
1046 ;; (foo t)
1047 ;; (error 'error-in-foo))
1048 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1049 ;; error-in-foo
1051 ;; @@ Compilation of advised definitions:
1052 ;; ======================================
1053 ;; Finally, we can specify the `compile' keyword in a `defadvice' to say
1054 ;; that we want the resulting advised function to be byte-compiled
1055 ;; (`compile' will be ignored unless we also specified `activate'):
1057 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-cleanup prot act comp)
1058 ;; "Do some protected cleanup."
1059 ;; (print "Let's clean up now!"))
1060 ;; foo
1062 ;; Now `foo's advice is byte-compiled:
1064 ;; (byte-code-function-p 'ad-Advice-foo)
1065 ;; t
1067 ;; (foo 3)
1068 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1069 ;; 72
1071 ;; @@ Enabling and disabling pieces of advice:
1072 ;; ===========================================
1073 ;; Once in a while it is desirable to temporarily disable a piece of advice
1074 ;; so that it won't be considered during activation, for example, if two
1075 ;; different packages advise the same function and one wants to temporarily
1076 ;; neutralize the effect of the advice of one of the packages.
1078 ;; The following disables the after advice `fg-times-x' in the function `foo'.
1079 ;; All that does is to change a flag for this particular advice. All the
1080 ;; other information defining it will be left unchanged (e.g., its relative
1081 ;; position in this advice class, etc.).
1083 ;; (ad-disable-advice 'foo 'after 'fg-times-x)
1084 ;; nil
1086 ;; For this to have an effect we have to activate `foo':
1088 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
1089 ;; foo
1091 ;; (foo 3)
1092 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1093 ;; 24
1095 ;; If we want to disable all multiplication advices in `foo' we can use a
1096 ;; regular expression that matches the names of such advices. Actually, any
1097 ;; advice name that contains a match for the regular expression will be
1098 ;; called a match. A special advice class `any' can be used to consider
1099 ;; all advice classes:
1101 ;; (ad-disable-advice 'foo 'any "^fg-.*times")
1102 ;; nil
1104 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
1105 ;; foo
1107 ;; (foo 3)
1108 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1109 ;; 5
1111 ;; To enable the disabled advice we could use either `ad-enable-advice'
1112 ;; similar to `ad-disable-advice', or as an alternative `ad-enable-regexp'
1113 ;; which will enable matching advices in ALL currently advised functions.
1114 ;; Hence, this can be used to dis/enable advices made by a particular
1115 ;; package to a set of functions as long as that package obeys standard
1116 ;; advice name conventions. We prefixed all advice names with `fg-', hence
1117 ;; the following will do the trick (`ad-enable-regexp' returns the number
1118 ;; of matched advices):
1120 ;; (ad-enable-regexp "^fg-")
1121 ;; 9
1123 ;; The following will activate all currently active advised functions that
1124 ;; contain some advice matched by the regular expression. This is a save
1125 ;; way to update the activation of advised functions whose advice changed
1126 ;; in some way or other without accidentally also activating currently
1127 ;; inactive functions:
1129 ;; (ad-update-regexp "^fg-")
1130 ;; nil
1132 ;; (foo 3)
1133 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1134 ;; 72
1136 ;; Another use for the dis/enablement mechanism is to define a piece of advice
1137 ;; and keep it "dormant" until a particular condition is satisfied, i.e., until
1138 ;; then the advice will not be used during activation. The `disable' flag lets
1139 ;; one do that with `defadvice':
1141 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-1-more dis)
1142 ;; "Add yet 1 more."
1143 ;; (setq x (1+ x)))
1144 ;; foo
1146 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
1147 ;; foo
1149 ;; (foo 3)
1150 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1151 ;; 72
1153 ;; (ad-enable-advice 'foo 'before 'fg-1-more)
1154 ;; nil
1156 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
1157 ;; foo
1159 ;; (foo 3)
1160 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1161 ;; 160
1163 ;; @@ Caching:
1164 ;; ===========
1165 ;; Advised definitions get cached to allow efficient activation/deactivation
1166 ;; without having to reconstruct them if nothing in the advice-info of a
1167 ;; function has changed. The following idiom can be used to temporarily
1168 ;; deactivate functions that have a piece of advice defined by a certain
1169 ;; package (we save the old definition to check out caching):
1171 ;; (setq old-definition (symbol-function 'ad-Advice-foo))
1172 ;; (lambda (x) ....)
1174 ;; (ad-deactivate-regexp "^fg-")
1175 ;; nil
1177 ;; (foo 3)
1178 ;; 4
1180 ;; (ad-activate-regexp "^fg-")
1181 ;; nil
1183 ;; (eq old-definition (symbol-function 'ad-Advice-foo))
1184 ;; t
1186 ;; (foo 3)
1187 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1188 ;; 160
1190 ;; @@ Forward advice:
1191 ;; ==================
1193 ;; Let's define a piece of advice for an undefined function:
1195 ;; (defadvice bar (before fg-sub-1-more act)
1196 ;; "Subtract one more from X."
1197 ;; (setq x (1- x)))
1198 ;; bar
1200 ;; `bar' is not yet defined:
1201 ;; (fboundp 'bar)
1202 ;; nil
1204 ;; Now we define it and the forward advice will get activated:
1206 ;; (defun bar (x)
1207 ;; "Subtract 1 from X."
1208 ;; (1- x))
1209 ;; bar
1211 ;; (bar 4)
1212 ;; 2
1214 ;; Redefinition will activate any available advice if the value of
1215 ;; `ad-redefinition-action' is either `warn', `accept' or `discard':
1217 ;; (defun bar (x)
1218 ;; "Subtract 2 from X."
1219 ;; (- x 2))
1220 ;; bar
1222 ;; (bar 4)
1223 ;; 1
1225 ;; @@ Preactivation:
1226 ;; =================
1227 ;; Constructing advised definitions is moderately expensive, hence, it is
1228 ;; desirable to have a way to construct them at byte-compile time.
1229 ;; Preactivation is a mechanism that allows one to do that.
1231 ;; (defun fie (x)
1232 ;; "Multiply X by 2."
1233 ;; (* x 2))
1234 ;; fie
1236 ;; (defadvice fie (before fg-times-4 preact)
1237 ;; "Multiply X by 4."
1238 ;; (setq x (* x 2)))
1239 ;; fie
1241 ;; This advice did not affect `fie'...
1243 ;; (fie 2)
1244 ;; 4
1246 ;; ...but it constructed a cached definition that will be used once `fie' gets
1247 ;; activated as long as its current advice state is the same as it was during
1248 ;; preactivation:
1250 ;; (setq cached-definition (ad-get-cache-definition 'fie))
1251 ;; (lambda (x) ....)
1253 ;; (ad-activate 'fie)
1254 ;; fie
1256 ;; (eq cached-definition (symbol-function 'ad-Advice-fie))
1257 ;; t
1259 ;; (fie 2)
1260 ;; 8
1262 ;; If you put a preactivating `defadvice' into a Lisp file that gets byte-
1263 ;; compiled then the constructed advised definition will get compiled by
1264 ;; the byte-compiler. For that to occur in a v18 Emacs you had to put the
1265 ;; `defadvice' inside a `defun' because the v18 compiler did not compile
1266 ;; top-level forms other than `defun' or `defmacro', for example,
1268 ;; (defun fg-defadvice-fum ()
1269 ;; (defadvice fum (before fg-times-4 preact act)
1270 ;; "Multiply X by 4."
1271 ;; (setq x (* x 2))))
1272 ;; fg-defadvice-fum
1274 ;; So far, no `defadvice' for `fum' got executed, but when we compile
1275 ;; `fg-defadvice-fum' the `defadvice' will be expanded by the byte compiler.
1276 ;; In order for preactivation to be effective we have to have a proper
1277 ;; definition of `fum' around at preactivation time, hence, we define it now:
1279 ;; (defun fum (x)
1280 ;; "Multiply X by 2."
1281 ;; (* x 2))
1282 ;; fum
1284 ;; Now we compile the defining function which will construct an advised
1285 ;; definition during expansion of the `defadvice', compile it and store it
1286 ;; as part of the compiled `fg-defadvice-fum':
1288 ;; (ad-compile-function 'fg-defadvice-fum)
1289 ;; (lambda nil (byte-code ...))
1291 ;; `fum' is still completely unaffected:
1293 ;; (fum 2)
1294 ;; 4
1296 ;; (ad-get-advice-info 'fum)
1297 ;; nil
1299 ;; (fg-defadvice-fum)
1300 ;; fum
1302 ;; Now the advised version of `fum' is compiled because the compiled definition
1303 ;; constructed during preactivation was used, even though we did not specify
1304 ;; the `compile' flag:
1306 ;; (byte-code-function-p 'ad-Advice-fum)
1307 ;; t
1309 ;; (fum 2)
1310 ;; 8
1312 ;; A preactivated definition will only be used if it matches the current
1313 ;; function definition and advice information. If it does not match it
1314 ;; will simply be discarded and a new advised definition will be constructed
1315 ;; from scratch. For example, let's first remove all advice-info for `fum':
1317 ;; (ad-unadvise 'fum)
1318 ;; (("fie") ("bar") ("foo") ...)
1320 ;; And now define a new piece of advice:
1322 ;; (defadvice fum (before fg-interactive act)
1323 ;; "Make fum interactive."
1324 ;; (interactive "nEnter x: "))
1325 ;; fum
1327 ;; When we now try to use a preactivation it will not be used because the
1328 ;; current advice state is different from the one at preactivation time. This
1329 ;; is no tragedy, everything will work as expected just not as efficient,
1330 ;; because a new advised definition has to be constructed from scratch:
1332 ;; (fg-defadvice-fum)
1333 ;; fum
1335 ;; A new uncompiled advised definition got constructed:
1337 ;; (byte-code-function-p 'ad-Advice-fum)
1338 ;; nil
1340 ;; (fum 2)
1341 ;; 8
1343 ;; MORAL: To get all the efficiency out of preactivation the function
1344 ;; definition and advice state at preactivation time must be the same as the
1345 ;; state at activation time. Preactivation does work with forward advice, all
1346 ;; that's necessary is that the definition of the forward advised function is
1347 ;; available when the `defadvice' with the preactivation gets compiled.
1349 ;; @@ Portable argument access:
1350 ;; ============================
1351 ;; So far, we always used the actual argument variable names to access an
1352 ;; argument in a piece of advice. For many advice applications this is
1353 ;; perfectly ok and keeps advices simple. However, it decreases portability
1354 ;; of advices because it assumes specific argument variable names. For example,
1355 ;; if one advises a subr such as `eval-region' which then gets redefined by
1356 ;; some package (e.g., edebug) into a function with different argument names,
1357 ;; then a piece of advice written for `eval-region' that was written with
1358 ;; the subr arguments in mind will break.
1360 ;; Argument access text macros allow one to access arguments of an advised
1361 ;; function in a portable way without having to worry about all these
1362 ;; possibilities. These macros will be translated into the proper access forms
1363 ;; at activation time, hence, argument access will be as efficient as if
1364 ;; the arguments had been used directly in the definition of the advice.
1366 ;; (defun fuu (x y z)
1367 ;; "Add 3 numbers."
1368 ;; (+ x y z))
1369 ;; fuu
1371 ;; (fuu 1 1 1)
1372 ;; 3
1374 ;; Argument access macros specify actual arguments at a certain position.
1375 ;; Position 0 access the first actual argument, position 1 the second etc.
1376 ;; For example, the following advice adds 1 to each of the 3 arguments:
1378 ;; (defadvice fuu (before fg-add-1-to-all act)
1379 ;; "Adds 1 to all arguments."
1380 ;; (ad-set-arg 0 (1+ (ad-get-arg 0)))
1381 ;; (ad-set-arg 1 (1+ (ad-get-arg 1)))
1382 ;; (ad-set-arg 2 (1+ (ad-get-arg 2))))
1383 ;; fuu
1385 ;; (fuu 1 1 1)
1386 ;; 6
1388 ;; Now suppose somebody redefines `fuu' with a rest argument. Our advice
1389 ;; will still work because we used access macros (note, that automatic
1390 ;; advice activation is still in effect, hence, the redefinition of `fuu'
1391 ;; will automatically activate all its advice):
1393 ;; (defun fuu (&rest numbers)
1394 ;; "Add NUMBERS."
1395 ;; (apply '+ numbers))
1396 ;; fuu
1398 ;; (fuu 1 1 1)
1399 ;; 6
1401 ;; (fuu 1 1 1 1 1 1)
1402 ;; 9
1404 ;; What's important to notice is that argument access macros access actual
1405 ;; arguments regardless of how they got distributed onto argument variables.
1406 ;; In Emacs Lisp the semantics of an actual argument is determined purely
1407 ;; by position, hence, as long as nobody changes the semantics of what a
1408 ;; certain actual argument at a certain position means the access macros
1409 ;; will do the right thing.
1411 ;; Because of &rest arguments we need a second kind of access macro that
1412 ;; can access all actual arguments starting from a certain position:
1414 ;; (defadvice fuu (before fg-print-args act)
1415 ;; "Print all arguments."
1416 ;; (print (ad-get-args 0)))
1417 ;; fuu
1419 ;; (fuu 1 2 3 4 5)
1420 ;; (1 2 3 4 5)
1421 ;; 18
1423 ;; (defadvice fuu (before fg-set-args act)
1424 ;; "Swaps 2nd and 3rd arg and discards all the rest."
1425 ;; (ad-set-args 1 (list (ad-get-arg 2) (ad-get-arg 1))))
1426 ;; fuu
1428 ;; (fuu 1 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4)
1429 ;; (1 3 2)
1430 ;; 9
1432 ;; (defun fuu (x y z)
1433 ;; "Add 3 numbers."
1434 ;; (+ x y z))
1436 ;; (fuu 1 2 3)
1437 ;; (1 3 2)
1438 ;; 9
1440 ;; @@ Defining the argument list of an advised function:
1441 ;; =====================================================
1442 ;; Once in a while it might be desirable to advise a function and additionally
1443 ;; give it an extra argument that controls the advised code, for example, one
1444 ;; might want to make an interactive function sensitive to a prefix argument.
1445 ;; For such cases `defadvice' allows the specification of an argument list
1446 ;; for the advised function. Similar to the redefinition of interactive
1447 ;; behavior, the first argument list specification found in the list of before/
1448 ;; around/after advices will be used. Of course, the specified argument list
1449 ;; should be downward compatible with the original argument list, otherwise
1450 ;; functions that call the advised function with the original argument list
1451 ;; in mind will break.
1453 ;; (defun fii (x)
1454 ;; "Add 1 to X."
1455 ;; (1+ x))
1456 ;; fii
1458 ;; Now we advise `fii' to use an optional second argument that controls the
1459 ;; amount of incrementing. A list following the (optional) position
1460 ;; argument of the advice will be interpreted as an argument list
1461 ;; specification. This means you cannot specify an empty argument list, and
1462 ;; why would you want to anyway?
1464 ;; (defadvice fii (before fg-inc-x (x &optional incr) act)
1465 ;; "Increment X by INCR (default is 1)."
1466 ;; (setq x (+ x (1- (or incr 1)))))
1467 ;; fii
1469 ;; (fii 3)
1470 ;; 4
1472 ;; (fii 3 2)
1473 ;; 5
1475 ;; @@ Advising interactive subrs:
1476 ;; ==============================
1477 ;; For the most part there is no difference between advising functions and
1478 ;; advising subrs. There is one situation though where one might have to write
1479 ;; slightly different advice code for subrs than for functions. This case
1480 ;; arises when one wants to access subr arguments in a before/around advice
1481 ;; when the arguments were determined by an interactive call to the subr.
1482 ;; Advice cannot determine what `interactive' form determines the interactive
1483 ;; behavior of the subr, hence, when it calls the original definition in an
1484 ;; interactive subr invocation it has to use `call-interactively' to generate
1485 ;; the proper interactive behavior. Thus up to that call the arguments of the
1486 ;; interactive subr will be nil. For example, the following advice for
1487 ;; `kill-buffer' will not work in an interactive invocation...
1489 ;; (defadvice kill-buffer (before fg-kill-buffer-hook first act preact comp)
1490 ;; (my-before-kill-buffer-hook (ad-get-arg 0)))
1491 ;; kill-buffer
1493 ;; ...because the buffer argument will be nil in that case. The way out of
1494 ;; this dilemma is to provide an `interactive' specification that mirrors
1495 ;; the interactive behavior of the unadvised subr, for example, the following
1496 ;; will do the right thing even when `kill-buffer' is called interactively:
1498 ;; (defadvice kill-buffer (before fg-kill-buffer-hook first act preact comp)
1499 ;; (interactive "bKill buffer: ")
1500 ;; (my-before-kill-buffer-hook (ad-get-arg 0)))
1501 ;; kill-buffer
1503 ;; @@ Advising macros:
1504 ;; ===================
1505 ;; Advising macros is slightly different because there are two significant
1506 ;; time points in the invocation of a macro: Expansion and evaluation time.
1507 ;; For an advised macro instead of evaluating the original definition we
1508 ;; use `macroexpand', that is, changing argument values and binding
1509 ;; environments by pieces of advice has an affect during macro expansion
1510 ;; but not necessarily during evaluation. In particular, any side effects
1511 ;; of pieces of advice will occur during macro expansion. To also affect
1512 ;; the behavior during evaluation time one has to change the value of
1513 ;; `ad-return-value' in a piece of after advice. For example:
1515 ;; (defmacro foom (x)
1516 ;; (` (list (, x))))
1517 ;; foom
1519 ;; (foom '(a))
1520 ;; ((a))
1522 ;; (defadvice foom (before fg-print-x act)
1523 ;; "Print the value of X."
1524 ;; (print x))
1525 ;; foom
1527 ;; The following works as expected because evaluation immediately follows
1528 ;; macro expansion:
1530 ;; (foom '(a))
1531 ;; (quote (a))
1532 ;; ((a))
1534 ;; However, the printing happens during expansion (or byte-compile) time:
1536 ;; (macroexpand '(foom '(a)))
1537 ;; (quote (a))
1538 ;; (list (quote (a)))
1540 ;; If we want it to happen during evaluation time we have to do the
1541 ;; following (first remove the old advice):
1543 ;; (ad-remove-advice 'foom 'before 'fg-print-x)
1544 ;; nil
1546 ;; (defadvice foom (after fg-print-x act)
1547 ;; "Print the value of X."
1548 ;; (setq ad-return-value
1549 ;; (` (progn (print (, x))
1550 ;; (, ad-return-value)))))
1551 ;; foom
1553 ;; (macroexpand '(foom '(a)))
1554 ;; (progn (print (quote (a))) (list (quote (a))))
1556 ;; (foom '(a))
1557 ;; (a)
1558 ;; ((a))
1560 ;; While this method might seem somewhat cumbersome, it is very general
1561 ;; because it allows one to influence macro expansion as well as evaluation.
1562 ;; In general, advising macros should be a rather rare activity anyway, in
1563 ;; particular, because compile-time macro expansion takes away a lot of the
1564 ;; flexibility and effectiveness of the advice mechanism. Macros that were
1565 ;; compile-time expanded before the advice was activated will of course never
1566 ;; exhibit the advised behavior.
1568 ;;; Code:
1570 ;; @ Advice implementation:
1571 ;; ========================
1573 ;; @@ Compilation idiosyncrasies:
1574 ;; ==============================
1576 (require 'macroexp)
1577 ;; At run-time also, since ad-do-advised-functions returns code that uses it.
1578 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl-lib))
1580 ;; @@ Variable definitions:
1581 ;; ========================
1583 (defgroup advice nil
1584 "An overloading mechanism for Emacs Lisp functions."
1585 :prefix "ad-"
1586 :link '(custom-manual "(elisp)Advising Functions")
1587 :group 'lisp)
1589 (defconst ad-version "2.14")
1591 ;;;###autoload
1592 (defcustom ad-redefinition-action 'warn
1593 "Defines what to do with redefinitions during Advice de/activation.
1594 Redefinition occurs if a previously activated function that already has an
1595 original definition associated with it gets redefined and then de/activated.
1596 In such a case we can either accept the current definition as the new
1597 original definition, discard the current definition and replace it with the
1598 old original, or keep it and raise an error. The values `accept', `discard',
1599 `error' or `warn' govern what will be done. `warn' is just like `accept' but
1600 it additionally prints a warning message. All other values will be
1601 interpreted as `error'."
1602 :type '(choice (const accept) (const discard) (const warn)
1603 (other :tag "error" error))
1604 :group 'advice)
1606 ;;;###autoload
1607 (defcustom ad-default-compilation-action 'maybe
1608 "Defines whether to compile advised definitions during activation.
1609 A value of `always' will result in unconditional compilation, `never' will
1610 always avoid compilation, `maybe' will compile if the byte-compiler is already
1611 loaded, and `like-original' will compile if the original definition of the
1612 advised function is compiled or a built-in function. Every other value will
1613 be interpreted as `maybe'. This variable will only be considered if the
1614 COMPILE argument of `ad-activate' was supplied as nil."
1615 :type '(choice (const always) (const never) (const like-original)
1616 (other :tag "maybe" maybe))
1617 :group 'advice)
1621 ;; @@ Some utilities:
1622 ;; ==================
1624 ;; We don't want the local arguments to interfere with anything
1625 ;; referenced in the supplied functions => the cryptic casing:
1626 (defun ad-substitute-tree (sUbTrEe-TeSt fUnCtIoN tReE)
1627 "Substitute qualifying subTREEs with result of FUNCTION(subTREE).
1628 Only proper subtrees are considered, for example, if TREE is (1 (2 (3)) 4)
1629 then the subtrees will be 1 (2 (3)) 2 (3) 3 4, dotted structures are
1630 allowed too. Once a qualifying subtree has been found its subtrees will
1631 not be considered anymore. (ad-substitute-tree 'atom 'identity tree)
1632 generates a copy of TREE."
1633 (cond ((consp tReE)
1634 (cons (if (funcall sUbTrEe-TeSt (car tReE))
1635 (funcall fUnCtIoN (car tReE))
1636 (if (consp (car tReE))
1637 (ad-substitute-tree sUbTrEe-TeSt fUnCtIoN (car tReE))
1638 (car tReE)))
1639 (ad-substitute-tree sUbTrEe-TeSt fUnCtIoN (cdr tReE))))
1640 ((funcall sUbTrEe-TeSt tReE)
1641 (funcall fUnCtIoN tReE))
1642 (t tReE)))
1644 ;; @@ Advice info access fns:
1645 ;; ==========================
1647 ;; Advice information for a particular function is stored on the
1648 ;; advice-info property of the function symbol. It is stored as an
1649 ;; alist of the following format:
1651 ;; ((active . t/nil)
1652 ;; (before adv1 adv2 ...)
1653 ;; (around adv1 adv2 ...)
1654 ;; (after adv1 adv2 ...)
1655 ;; (activation adv1 adv2 ...)
1656 ;; (deactivation adv1 adv2 ...)
1657 ;; (advicefunname . <symbol fbound to assembled advice function>)
1658 ;; (cache . (<advised-definition> . <id>)))
1660 ;; List of currently advised though not necessarily activated functions
1661 ;; (this list is maintained as a completion table):
1662 (defvar ad-advised-functions nil)
1664 (defmacro ad-pushnew-advised-function (function)
1665 "Add FUNCTION to `ad-advised-functions' unless its already there."
1666 `(if (not (assoc (symbol-name ,function) ad-advised-functions))
1667 (setq ad-advised-functions
1668 (cons (list (symbol-name ,function))
1669 ad-advised-functions))))
1671 (defmacro ad-pop-advised-function (function)
1672 "Remove FUNCTION from `ad-advised-functions'."
1673 `(setq ad-advised-functions
1674 (delq (assoc (symbol-name ,function) ad-advised-functions)
1675 ad-advised-functions)))
1677 (defmacro ad-do-advised-functions (varform &rest body)
1678 "`dolist'-style iterator that maps over advised functions.
1679 \(ad-do-advised-functions (VAR)
1680 BODY-FORM...)
1681 On each iteration VAR will be bound to the name of an advised function
1682 \(a symbol)."
1683 (declare (indent 1))
1684 `(dolist (,(car varform) ad-advised-functions)
1685 (setq ,(car varform) (intern (car ,(car varform))))
1686 ,@body))
1688 (defun ad-get-advice-info (function)
1689 (get function 'ad-advice-info))
1691 (defmacro ad-get-advice-info-macro (function)
1692 `(get ,function 'ad-advice-info))
1694 (defsubst ad-set-advice-info (function advice-info)
1695 (cond
1696 (advice-info
1697 (add-function :around (get function 'defalias-fset-function)
1698 #'ad--defalias-fset))
1699 ((get function 'defalias-fset-function)
1700 (remove-function (get function 'defalias-fset-function)
1701 #'ad--defalias-fset)))
1702 (put function 'ad-advice-info advice-info))
1704 (defmacro ad-copy-advice-info (function)
1705 `(copy-tree (get ,function 'ad-advice-info)))
1707 (defmacro ad-is-advised (function)
1708 "Return non-nil if FUNCTION has any advice info associated with it.
1709 This does not mean that the advice is also active."
1710 `(ad-get-advice-info-macro ,function))
1712 (defun ad-initialize-advice-info (function)
1713 "Initialize the advice info for FUNCTION.
1714 Assumes that FUNCTION has not yet been advised."
1715 (ad-pushnew-advised-function function)
1716 (ad-set-advice-info function (list (cons 'active nil))))
1718 (defmacro ad-get-advice-info-field (function field)
1719 "Retrieve the value of the advice info FIELD of FUNCTION."
1720 `(cdr (assq ,field (ad-get-advice-info-macro ,function))))
1722 (defun ad-set-advice-info-field (function field value)
1723 "Destructively modify VALUE of the advice info FIELD of FUNCTION."
1724 (and (ad-is-advised function)
1725 (cond ((assq field (ad-get-advice-info-macro function))
1726 ;; A field with that name is already present:
1727 (rplacd (assq field (ad-get-advice-info-macro function)) value))
1728 (t;; otherwise, create a new field with that name:
1729 (nconc (ad-get-advice-info-macro function)
1730 (list (cons field value)))))))
1732 ;; Don't make this a macro so we can use it as a predicate:
1733 (defun ad-is-active (function)
1734 "Return non-nil if FUNCTION is advised and activated."
1735 (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'active))
1738 ;; @@ Access fns for single pieces of advice and related predicates:
1739 ;; =================================================================
1741 (defun ad-make-advice (name protect enable definition)
1742 "Constructs single piece of advice to be stored in some advice-info.
1743 NAME should be a non-nil symbol, PROTECT and ENABLE should each be
1744 either t or nil, and DEFINITION should be a list of the form
1745 `(advice lambda ARGLIST [DOCSTRING] [INTERACTIVE-FORM] BODY...)'."
1746 (list name protect enable definition))
1748 ;; ad-find-advice uses the alist structure directly ->
1749 ;; change if this data structure changes!!
1750 (defsubst ad-advice-name (advice) (car advice))
1751 (defsubst ad-advice-protected (advice) (nth 1 advice))
1752 (defsubst ad-advice-enabled (advice) (nth 2 advice))
1753 (defsubst ad-advice-definition (advice) (nth 3 advice))
1755 (defun ad-advice-set-enabled (advice flag)
1756 (rplaca (cdr (cdr advice)) flag))
1758 (defvar ad-advice-classes '(before around after activation deactivation)
1759 "List of defined advice classes.")
1761 (defun ad-class-p (thing)
1762 (memq thing ad-advice-classes))
1763 (defun ad-name-p (thing)
1764 (and thing (symbolp thing)))
1765 (defun ad-position-p (thing)
1766 (or (natnump thing)
1767 (memq thing '(first last))))
1770 ;; @@ Advice access functions:
1771 ;; ===========================
1773 (defun ad-has-enabled-advice (function class)
1774 "True if at least one of FUNCTION's advices in CLASS is enabled."
1775 (cl-dolist (advice (ad-get-advice-info-field function class))
1776 (if (ad-advice-enabled advice) (cl-return t))))
1778 (defun ad-has-redefining-advice (function)
1779 "True if FUNCTION's advice info defines at least 1 redefining advice.
1780 Redefining advices affect the construction of an advised definition."
1781 (and (ad-is-advised function)
1782 (or (ad-has-enabled-advice function 'before)
1783 (ad-has-enabled-advice function 'around)
1784 (ad-has-enabled-advice function 'after))))
1786 (defun ad-has-any-advice (function)
1787 "True if the advice info of FUNCTION defines at least one advice."
1788 (and (ad-is-advised function)
1789 (cl-dolist (class ad-advice-classes)
1790 (if (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)
1791 (cl-return t)))))
1793 (defun ad-get-enabled-advices (function class)
1794 "Return the list of enabled advices of FUNCTION in CLASS."
1795 (let (enabled-advices)
1796 (dolist (advice (ad-get-advice-info-field function class))
1797 (if (ad-advice-enabled advice)
1798 (push advice enabled-advices)))
1799 (reverse enabled-advices)))
1802 ;; @@ Dealing with automatic advice activation via `fset/defalias':
1803 ;; ================================================================
1805 ;; Automatic activation happens when a function gets defined via `defalias',
1806 ;; which calls the `defalias-fset-function' (which we set to
1807 ;; `ad--defalias-fset') instead of `fset', if non-nil.
1809 ;; Whether advised definitions created by automatic activations will be
1810 ;; compiled depends on the value of `ad-default-compilation-action'.
1812 (defalias 'ad-activate-internal 'ad-activate)
1814 (defun ad-make-advicefunname (function)
1815 "Make name to be used to call the assembled advice function."
1816 (intern (format "ad-Advice-%s" function)))
1818 (defun ad-get-orig-definition (function) ;FIXME: Rename to "-unadvised-".
1819 (if (symbolp function)
1820 (setq function (if (fboundp function)
1821 (advice--strip-macro (symbol-function function)))))
1822 (while (advice--p function) (setq function (advice--cdr function)))
1823 function)
1825 (defun ad-clear-advicefunname-definition (function)
1826 (let ((advicefunname (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'advicefunname)))
1827 (advice-remove function advicefunname)
1828 (fmakunbound advicefunname)))
1831 ;; @@ Interactive input functions:
1832 ;; ===============================
1834 (declare-function 'function-called-at-point "help")
1836 (defun ad-read-advised-function (&optional prompt predicate default)
1837 "Read name of advised function with completion from the minibuffer.
1838 An optional PROMPT will be used to prompt for the function. PREDICATE
1839 plays the same role as for `try-completion' (which see). DEFAULT will
1840 be returned on empty input (defaults to the first advised function or
1841 function at point for which PREDICATE returns non-nil)."
1842 (if (null ad-advised-functions)
1843 (error "ad-read-advised-function: There are no advised functions"))
1844 (setq default
1845 (or default
1846 ;; Prefer func name at point, if it's an advised function etc.
1847 (let ((function (progn
1848 (require 'help)
1849 (function-called-at-point))))
1850 (and function
1851 (assoc (symbol-name function) ad-advised-functions)
1852 (or (null predicate)
1853 (funcall predicate function))
1854 function))
1855 (cl-block nil
1856 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
1857 (if (or (null predicate)
1858 (funcall predicate function))
1859 (cl-return function))))
1860 (error "ad-read-advised-function: %s"
1861 "There are no qualifying advised functions")))
1862 (let* ((function
1863 (completing-read
1864 (format "%s (default %s): " (or prompt "Function") default)
1865 ad-advised-functions
1866 (if predicate
1867 (lambda (function)
1868 (funcall predicate (intern (car function)))))
1869 t)))
1870 (if (equal function "")
1871 (if (ad-is-advised default)
1872 default
1873 (error "ad-read-advised-function: `%s' is not advised" default))
1874 (intern function))))
1876 (defvar ad-advice-class-completion-table
1877 (mapcar (lambda (class) (list (symbol-name class)))
1878 ad-advice-classes))
1880 (defun ad-read-advice-class (function &optional prompt default)
1881 "Read a valid advice class with completion from the minibuffer.
1882 An optional PROMPT will be used to prompt for the class. DEFAULT will
1883 be returned on empty input (defaults to the first non-empty advice
1884 class of FUNCTION)."
1885 (setq default
1886 (or default
1887 (cl-dolist (class ad-advice-classes)
1888 (if (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)
1889 (cl-return class)))
1890 (error "ad-read-advice-class: `%s' has no advices" function)))
1891 (let ((class (completing-read
1892 (format "%s (default %s): " (or prompt "Class") default)
1893 ad-advice-class-completion-table nil t)))
1894 (if (equal class "")
1895 default
1896 (intern class))))
1898 (defun ad-read-advice-name (function class &optional prompt)
1899 "Read name of existing advice of CLASS for FUNCTION with completion.
1900 An optional PROMPT is used to prompt for the name."
1901 (let* ((name-completion-table
1902 (mapcar (function (lambda (advice)
1903 (list (symbol-name (ad-advice-name advice)))))
1904 (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)))
1905 (default
1906 (if (null name-completion-table)
1907 (error "ad-read-advice-name: `%s' has no %s advice"
1908 function class)
1909 (car (car name-completion-table))))
1910 (prompt (format "%s (default %s): " (or prompt "Name") default))
1911 (name (completing-read prompt name-completion-table nil t)))
1912 (if (equal name "")
1913 (intern default)
1914 (intern name))))
1916 (defun ad-read-advice-specification (&optional prompt)
1917 "Read a complete function/class/name specification from minibuffer.
1918 The list of read symbols will be returned. The optional PROMPT will
1919 be used to prompt for the function."
1920 (let* ((function (ad-read-advised-function prompt))
1921 (class (ad-read-advice-class function))
1922 (name (ad-read-advice-name function class)))
1923 (list function class name)))
1925 ;; Use previous regexp as a default:
1926 (defvar ad-last-regexp "")
1928 (defun ad-read-regexp (&optional prompt)
1929 "Read a regular expression from the minibuffer."
1930 (let ((regexp (read-from-minibuffer
1931 (concat (or prompt "Regular expression")
1932 (if (equal ad-last-regexp "") ": "
1933 (format " (default %s): " ad-last-regexp))))))
1934 (setq ad-last-regexp
1935 (if (equal regexp "") ad-last-regexp regexp))))
1938 ;; @@ Finding, enabling, adding and removing pieces of advice:
1939 ;; ===========================================================
1941 (defmacro ad-find-advice (function class name)
1942 "Find the first advice of FUNCTION in CLASS with NAME."
1943 `(assq ,name (ad-get-advice-info-field ,function ,class)))
1945 (defun ad-advice-position (function class name)
1946 "Return position of first advice of FUNCTION in CLASS with NAME."
1947 (let* ((found-advice (ad-find-advice function class name))
1948 (advices (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)))
1949 (if found-advice
1950 (- (length advices) (length (memq found-advice advices))))))
1952 (defun ad-find-some-advice (function class name)
1953 "Find the first of FUNCTION's advices in CLASS matching NAME.
1954 NAME can be a symbol or a regular expression matching part of an advice name.
1955 If CLASS is `any' all valid advice classes will be checked."
1956 (if (ad-is-advised function)
1957 (let (found-advice)
1958 (cl-dolist (advice-class ad-advice-classes)
1959 (if (or (eq class 'any) (eq advice-class class))
1960 (setq found-advice
1961 (cl-dolist (advice (ad-get-advice-info-field
1962 function advice-class))
1963 (if (or (and (stringp name)
1964 (string-match
1965 name (symbol-name
1966 (ad-advice-name advice))))
1967 (eq name (ad-advice-name advice)))
1968 (cl-return advice)))))
1969 (if found-advice (cl-return found-advice))))))
1971 (defun ad-enable-advice-internal (function class name flag)
1972 "Set enable FLAG of FUNCTION's advices in CLASS matching NAME.
1973 If NAME is a string rather than a symbol then it's interpreted as a regular
1974 expression and all advices whose name contain a match for it will be
1975 affected. If CLASS is `any' advices in all valid advice classes will be
1976 considered. The number of changed advices will be returned (or nil if
1977 FUNCTION was not advised)."
1978 (if (ad-is-advised function)
1979 (let ((matched-advices 0))
1980 (dolist (advice-class ad-advice-classes)
1981 (if (or (eq class 'any) (eq advice-class class))
1982 (dolist (advice (ad-get-advice-info-field
1983 function advice-class))
1984 (cond ((or (and (stringp name)
1985 (string-match
1986 name (symbol-name (ad-advice-name advice))))
1987 (eq name (ad-advice-name advice)))
1988 (setq matched-advices (1+ matched-advices))
1989 (ad-advice-set-enabled advice flag))))))
1990 matched-advices)))
1992 ;;;###autoload
1993 (defun ad-enable-advice (function class name)
1994 "Enables the advice of FUNCTION with CLASS and NAME."
1995 (interactive (ad-read-advice-specification "Enable advice of"))
1996 (if (ad-is-advised function)
1997 (if (eq (ad-enable-advice-internal function class name t) 0)
1998 (error "ad-enable-advice: `%s' has no %s advice matching `%s'"
1999 function class name))
2000 (error "ad-enable-advice: `%s' is not advised" function)))
2002 ;;;###autoload
2003 (defun ad-disable-advice (function class name)
2004 "Disable the advice of FUNCTION with CLASS and NAME."
2005 (interactive (ad-read-advice-specification "Disable advice of"))
2006 (if (ad-is-advised function)
2007 (if (eq (ad-enable-advice-internal function class name nil) 0)
2008 (error "ad-disable-advice: `%s' has no %s advice matching `%s'"
2009 function class name))
2010 (error "ad-disable-advice: `%s' is not advised" function)))
2012 (defun ad-enable-regexp-internal (regexp class flag)
2013 "Set enable FLAGs of all CLASS advices whose name contains a REGEXP match.
2014 If CLASS is `any' all valid advice classes are considered. The number of
2015 affected advices will be returned."
2016 (let ((matched-advices 0))
2017 (ad-do-advised-functions (advised-function)
2018 (setq matched-advices
2019 (+ matched-advices
2020 (or (ad-enable-advice-internal
2021 advised-function class regexp flag)
2022 0))))
2023 matched-advices))
2025 (defun ad-enable-regexp (regexp)
2026 "Enables all advices with names that contain a match for REGEXP.
2027 All currently advised functions will be considered."
2028 (interactive
2029 (list (ad-read-regexp "Enable advices via regexp")))
2030 (let ((matched-advices (ad-enable-regexp-internal regexp 'any t)))
2031 (if (called-interactively-p 'interactive)
2032 (message "%d matching advices enabled" matched-advices))
2033 matched-advices))
2035 (defun ad-disable-regexp (regexp)
2036 "Disable all advices with names that contain a match for REGEXP.
2037 All currently advised functions will be considered."
2038 (interactive
2039 (list (ad-read-regexp "Disable advices via regexp")))
2040 (let ((matched-advices (ad-enable-regexp-internal regexp 'any nil)))
2041 (if (called-interactively-p 'interactive)
2042 (message "%d matching advices disabled" matched-advices))
2043 matched-advices))
2045 (defun ad-remove-advice (function class name)
2046 "Remove FUNCTION's advice with NAME from its advices in CLASS.
2047 If such an advice was found it will be removed from the list of advices
2048 in that CLASS."
2049 (interactive (ad-read-advice-specification "Remove advice of"))
2050 (if (ad-is-advised function)
2051 (let ((advice-to-remove (ad-find-advice function class name)))
2052 (if advice-to-remove
2053 (ad-set-advice-info-field
2054 function class
2055 (delq advice-to-remove (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)))
2056 (error "ad-remove-advice: `%s' has no %s advice `%s'"
2057 function class name)))
2058 (error "ad-remove-advice: `%s' is not advised" function)))
2060 ;;;###autoload
2061 (defun ad-add-advice (function advice class position)
2062 "Add a piece of ADVICE to FUNCTION's list of advices in CLASS.
2064 ADVICE has the form (NAME PROTECTED ENABLED DEFINITION), where
2065 NAME is the advice name; PROTECTED is a flag specifying whether
2066 to protect against non-local exits; ENABLED is a flag specifying
2067 whether to initially enable the advice; and DEFINITION has the
2068 form (advice . LAMBDA), where LAMBDA is a lambda expression.
2070 If FUNCTION already has a piece of advice with the same name,
2071 then POSITION is ignored, and the old advice is overwritten with
2072 the new one.
2074 If FUNCTION already has one or more pieces of advice of the
2075 specified CLASS, then POSITION determines where the new piece
2076 goes. POSITION can either be `first', `last' or a number (where
2077 0 corresponds to `first', and numbers outside the valid range are
2078 mapped to the closest extremal position).
2080 If FUNCTION was not advised already, its advice info will be
2081 initialized. Redefining a piece of advice whose name is part of
2082 the cache-id will clear the cache.
2084 See Info node `(elisp)Computed Advice' for detailed documentation."
2085 (cond ((not (ad-is-advised function))
2086 (ad-initialize-advice-info function)
2087 (ad-set-advice-info-field
2088 function 'advicefunname (ad-make-advicefunname function))))
2089 (let* ((previous-position
2090 (ad-advice-position function class (ad-advice-name advice)))
2091 (advices (ad-get-advice-info-field function class))
2092 ;; Determine a numerical position for the new advice:
2093 (position (cond (previous-position)
2094 ((eq position 'first) 0)
2095 ((eq position 'last) (length advices))
2096 ((numberp position)
2097 (max 0 (min position (length advices))))
2098 (t 0))))
2099 ;; Check whether we have to clear the cache:
2100 (if (memq (ad-advice-name advice) (ad-get-cache-class-id function class))
2101 (ad-clear-cache function))
2102 (if previous-position
2103 (setcar (nthcdr position advices) advice)
2104 (if (= position 0)
2105 (ad-set-advice-info-field function class (cons advice advices))
2106 (setcdr (nthcdr (1- position) advices)
2107 (cons advice (nthcdr position advices)))))))
2110 ;; @@ Accessing and manipulating function definitions:
2111 ;; ===================================================
2113 (defmacro ad-macrofy (definition)
2114 "Take a lambda function DEFINITION and make a macro out of it."
2115 `(cons 'macro ,definition))
2117 (defmacro ad-lambdafy (definition)
2118 "Take a macro function DEFINITION and make a lambda out of it."
2119 `(cdr ,definition))
2121 (defmacro ad-lambda-p (definition)
2122 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION is a lambda expression."
2123 `(eq (car-safe ,definition) 'lambda))
2125 ;; see ad-make-advice for the format of advice definitions:
2126 (defmacro ad-advice-p (definition)
2127 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION is a piece of advice."
2128 `(eq (car-safe ,definition) 'advice))
2130 (defmacro ad-compiled-p (definition)
2131 "Return non-nil if DEFINITION is a compiled byte-code object."
2132 `(or (byte-code-function-p ,definition)
2133 (and (macrop ,definition)
2134 (byte-code-function-p (ad-lambdafy ,definition)))))
2136 (defmacro ad-compiled-code (compiled-definition)
2137 "Return the byte-code object of a COMPILED-DEFINITION."
2138 `(if (macrop ,compiled-definition)
2139 (ad-lambdafy ,compiled-definition)
2140 ,compiled-definition))
2142 (defun ad-lambda-expression (definition)
2143 "Return the lambda expression of a function/macro/advice DEFINITION."
2144 (cond ((ad-lambda-p definition)
2145 definition)
2146 ((macrop definition)
2147 (ad-lambdafy definition))
2148 ((ad-advice-p definition)
2149 (cdr definition))
2150 (t nil)))
2152 (defun ad-arglist (definition)
2153 "Return the argument list of DEFINITION."
2154 (require 'help-fns)
2155 (help-function-arglist
2156 (if (or (macrop definition) (ad-advice-p definition))
2157 (cdr definition)
2158 definition)
2159 'preserve-names))
2161 (defun ad-docstring (definition)
2162 "Return the unexpanded docstring of DEFINITION."
2163 (let ((docstring
2164 (if (ad-compiled-p definition)
2165 (documentation definition t)
2166 (car (cdr (cdr (ad-lambda-expression definition)))))))
2167 (if (or (stringp docstring)
2168 (natnump docstring))
2169 docstring)))
2171 (defun ad-interactive-form (definition)
2172 "Return the interactive form of DEFINITION.
2173 Like `interactive-form', but also works on pieces of advice."
2174 (interactive-form
2175 (if (ad-advice-p definition)
2176 (ad-lambda-expression definition)
2177 definition)))
2179 (defun ad-body-forms (definition)
2180 "Return the list of body forms of DEFINITION."
2181 (cond ((ad-compiled-p definition)
2182 nil)
2183 ((consp definition)
2184 (nthcdr (+ (if (ad-docstring definition) 1 0)
2185 (if (ad-interactive-form definition) 1 0))
2186 (cdr (cdr (ad-lambda-expression definition)))))))
2188 (defun ad-make-advised-definition-docstring (_function)
2189 "Make an identifying docstring for the advised definition of FUNCTION.
2190 Put function name into the documentation string so we can infer
2191 the name of the advised function from the docstring. This is needed
2192 to generate a proper advised docstring even if we are just given a
2193 definition (see the code for `documentation')."
2194 (eval-when-compile
2195 (propertize "Advice function assembled by advice.el."
2196 'dynamic-docstring-function
2197 #'ad--make-advised-docstring)))
2199 (defun ad-advised-definition-p (definition)
2200 "Return non-nil if DEFINITION was generated from advice information."
2201 (if (or (ad-lambda-p definition)
2202 (macrop definition)
2203 (ad-compiled-p definition))
2204 (let ((docstring (ad-docstring definition)))
2205 (and (stringp docstring)
2206 (get-text-property 0 'dynamic-docstring-function docstring)))))
2208 (defun ad-definition-type (definition)
2209 "Return symbol that describes the type of DEFINITION."
2210 ;; These symbols are only ever used to check a cache entry's validity.
2211 ;; The suffix `2' reflects the fact that we're using version 2 of advice
2212 ;; representations, so cache entries preactivated with version
2213 ;; 1 can't be used.
2214 (cond
2215 ((macrop definition) 'macro2)
2216 ((subrp definition) 'subr2)
2217 ((or (ad-lambda-p definition) (ad-compiled-p definition)) 'fun2)
2218 ((ad-advice-p definition) 'advice2))) ;; FIXME: Can this ever happen?
2220 (defun ad-has-proper-definition (function)
2221 "True if FUNCTION is a symbol with a proper definition.
2222 For that it has to be fbound with a non-autoload definition."
2223 (and (symbolp function)
2224 (fboundp function)
2225 (not (autoloadp (symbol-function function)))))
2227 ;; The following two are necessary for the sake of packages such as
2228 ;; ange-ftp which redefine functions via fcell indirection:
2229 (defun ad-real-definition (function)
2230 "Find FUNCTION's definition at the end of function cell indirection."
2231 (if (ad-has-proper-definition function)
2232 (let ((definition (symbol-function function)))
2233 (if (symbolp definition)
2234 (ad-real-definition definition)
2235 definition))))
2237 (defun ad-real-orig-definition (function)
2238 (let* ((fun1 (ad-get-orig-definition function))
2239 (fun2 (indirect-function fun1)))
2240 (unless (autoloadp fun2) fun2)))
2242 (defun ad-is-compilable (function)
2243 "True if FUNCTION has an interpreted definition that can be compiled."
2244 (and (ad-has-proper-definition function)
2245 (or (ad-lambda-p (symbol-function function))
2246 (macrop (symbol-function function)))
2247 (not (ad-compiled-p (symbol-function function)))))
2249 (defvar warning-suppress-types) ;From warnings.el.
2250 (defun ad-compile-function (function)
2251 "Byte-compile the assembled advice function."
2252 (require 'bytecomp)
2253 (let ((byte-compile-warnings byte-compile-warnings)
2254 ;; Don't pop up windows showing byte-compiler warnings.
2255 (warning-suppress-types '((bytecomp))))
2256 (if (featurep 'cl)
2257 (byte-compile-disable-warning 'cl-functions))
2258 (byte-compile (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'advicefunname))))
2260 ;; @@@ Accessing argument lists:
2261 ;; =============================
2263 (defun ad-parse-arglist (arglist)
2264 "Parse ARGLIST into its required, optional and rest parameters.
2265 A three-element list is returned, where the 1st element is the list of
2266 required arguments, the 2nd is the list of optional arguments, and the 3rd
2267 is the name of an optional rest parameter (or nil)."
2268 (let (required optional rest)
2269 (setq rest (car (cdr (memq '&rest arglist))))
2270 (if rest (setq arglist (reverse (cdr (memq '&rest (reverse arglist))))))
2271 (setq optional (cdr (memq '&optional arglist)))
2272 (if optional
2273 (setq required (reverse (cdr (memq '&optional (reverse arglist)))))
2274 (setq required arglist))
2275 (list required optional rest)))
2277 (defun ad-retrieve-args-form (arglist)
2278 "Generate a form which evaluates into names/values/types of ARGLIST.
2279 When the form gets evaluated within a function with that argument list
2280 it will result in a list with one entry for each argument, where the
2281 first element of each entry is the name of the argument, the second
2282 element is its actual current value, and the third element is either
2283 `required', `optional' or `rest' depending on the type of the argument."
2284 (let* ((parsed-arglist (ad-parse-arglist arglist))
2285 (rest (nth 2 parsed-arglist)))
2286 `(list
2287 ,@(mapcar (function
2288 (lambda (req)
2289 `(list ',req ,req 'required)))
2290 (nth 0 parsed-arglist))
2291 ,@(mapcar (function
2292 (lambda (opt)
2293 `(list ',opt ,opt 'optional)))
2294 (nth 1 parsed-arglist))
2295 ,@(if rest (list `(list ',rest ,rest 'rest))))))
2297 (defun ad-arg-binding-field (binding field)
2298 (cond ((eq field 'name) (car binding))
2299 ((eq field 'value) (car (cdr binding)))
2300 ((eq field 'type) (car (cdr (cdr binding))))))
2302 (defun ad-list-access (position list)
2303 (cond ((= position 0) list)
2304 ((= position 1) (list 'cdr list))
2305 (t (list 'nthcdr position list))))
2307 (defun ad-element-access (position list)
2308 (cond ((= position 0) (list 'car list))
2309 ((= position 1) `(car (cdr ,list)))
2310 (t (list 'nth position list))))
2312 (defun ad-access-argument (arglist index)
2313 "Tell how to access ARGLIST's actual argument at position INDEX.
2314 For a required/optional arg it simply returns it, if a rest argument has
2315 to be accessed, it returns a list with the index and name."
2316 (let* ((parsed-arglist (ad-parse-arglist arglist))
2317 (reqopt-args (append (nth 0 parsed-arglist)
2318 (nth 1 parsed-arglist)))
2319 (rest-arg (nth 2 parsed-arglist)))
2320 (cond ((< index (length reqopt-args))
2321 (nth index reqopt-args))
2322 (rest-arg
2323 (list (- index (length reqopt-args)) rest-arg)))))
2325 (defun ad-get-argument (arglist index)
2326 "Return form to access ARGLIST's actual argument at position INDEX.
2327 INDEX counts from zero."
2328 (let ((argument-access (ad-access-argument arglist index)))
2329 (cond ((consp argument-access)
2330 (ad-element-access
2331 (car argument-access) (car (cdr argument-access))))
2332 (argument-access))))
2334 (defun ad-set-argument (arglist index value-form)
2335 "Return form to set ARGLIST's actual arg at INDEX to VALUE-FORM.
2336 INDEX counts from zero."
2337 (let ((argument-access (ad-access-argument arglist index)))
2338 (cond ((consp argument-access)
2339 ;; should this check whether there actually is something to set?
2340 `(setcar ,(ad-list-access
2341 (car argument-access) (car (cdr argument-access)))
2342 ,value-form))
2343 (argument-access
2344 `(setq ,argument-access ,value-form))
2345 (t (error "ad-set-argument: No argument at position %d of `%s'"
2346 index arglist)))))
2348 (defun ad-get-arguments (arglist index)
2349 "Return form to access all actual arguments starting at position INDEX."
2350 (let* ((parsed-arglist (ad-parse-arglist arglist))
2351 (reqopt-args (append (nth 0 parsed-arglist)
2352 (nth 1 parsed-arglist)))
2353 (rest-arg (nth 2 parsed-arglist))
2354 args-form)
2355 (if (< index (length reqopt-args))
2356 (setq args-form `(list ,@(nthcdr index reqopt-args))))
2357 (if rest-arg
2358 (if args-form
2359 (setq args-form `(nconc ,args-form ,rest-arg))
2360 (setq args-form (ad-list-access (- index (length reqopt-args))
2361 rest-arg))))
2362 args-form))
2364 (defun ad-set-arguments (arglist index values-form)
2365 "Make form to assign elements of VALUES-FORM as actual ARGLIST args.
2366 The assignment starts at position INDEX."
2367 (let ((values-index 0)
2368 argument-access set-forms)
2369 (while (setq argument-access (ad-access-argument arglist index))
2370 (push (if (symbolp argument-access)
2371 (ad-set-argument
2372 arglist index
2373 (ad-element-access values-index 'ad-vAlUeS))
2374 (setq arglist nil) ;; Terminate loop.
2375 (if (= (car argument-access) 0)
2376 `(setq
2377 ,(car (cdr argument-access))
2378 ,(ad-list-access values-index 'ad-vAlUeS))
2379 `(setcdr
2380 ,(ad-list-access (1- (car argument-access))
2381 (car (cdr argument-access)))
2382 ,(ad-list-access values-index 'ad-vAlUeS))))
2383 set-forms)
2384 (setq index (1+ index))
2385 (setq values-index (1+ values-index)))
2386 (if (null set-forms)
2387 (error "ad-set-arguments: No argument at position %d of `%s'"
2388 index arglist)
2389 (if (= (length set-forms) 1)
2390 ;; For exactly one set-form we can use values-form directly,...
2391 (ad-substitute-tree
2392 (lambda (form) (eq form 'ad-vAlUeS))
2393 (lambda (_form) values-form)
2394 (car set-forms))
2395 ;; ...if we have more we have to bind it to a variable:
2396 `(let ((ad-vAlUeS ,values-form))
2397 ,@(reverse set-forms)
2398 ;; work around the old backquote bug:
2399 ,'ad-vAlUeS)))))
2401 (defun ad-insert-argument-access-forms (definition arglist)
2402 "Expands arg-access text macros in DEFINITION according to ARGLIST."
2403 (ad-substitute-tree
2404 (function
2405 (lambda (form)
2406 (or (eq form 'ad-arg-bindings)
2407 (and (memq (car-safe form)
2408 '(ad-get-arg ad-get-args ad-set-arg ad-set-args))
2409 (integerp (car-safe (cdr form)))))))
2410 (function
2411 (lambda (form)
2412 (if (eq form 'ad-arg-bindings)
2413 (ad-retrieve-args-form arglist)
2414 (let ((accessor (car form))
2415 (index (car (cdr form)))
2416 (val (car (cdr (ad-insert-argument-access-forms
2417 (cdr form) arglist)))))
2418 (cond ((eq accessor 'ad-get-arg)
2419 (ad-get-argument arglist index))
2420 ((eq accessor 'ad-set-arg)
2421 (ad-set-argument arglist index val))
2422 ((eq accessor 'ad-get-args)
2423 (ad-get-arguments arglist index))
2424 ((eq accessor 'ad-set-args)
2425 (ad-set-arguments arglist index val)))))))
2426 definition))
2428 ;; @@@ Mapping argument lists:
2429 ;; ===========================
2430 ;; Here is the problem:
2431 ;; Suppose function foo was called with (foo 1 2 3 4 5), and foo has the
2432 ;; argument list (x y &rest z), and we want to call the function bar which
2433 ;; has argument list (a &rest b) with a combination of x, y and z so that
2434 ;; the effect is just as if we had called (bar 1 2 3 4 5) directly.
2435 ;; The mapping should work for any two argument lists.
2437 (defun ad-map-arglists (source-arglist target-arglist)
2438 "Make `funcall/apply' form to map SOURCE-ARGLIST to TARGET-ARGLIST.
2439 The arguments supplied to TARGET-ARGLIST will be taken from SOURCE-ARGLIST just
2440 as if they had been supplied to a function with TARGET-ARGLIST directly.
2441 Excess source arguments will be neglected, missing source arguments will be
2442 supplied as nil. Returns a `funcall' or `apply' form with the second element
2443 being `function' which has to be replaced by an actual function argument.
2444 Example: `(ad-map-arglists '(a &rest args) '(w x y z))' will return
2445 `(funcall ad--addoit-function a (car args) (car (cdr args)) (nth 2 args))'."
2446 (let* ((parsed-source-arglist (ad-parse-arglist source-arglist))
2447 (source-reqopt-args (append (nth 0 parsed-source-arglist)
2448 (nth 1 parsed-source-arglist)))
2449 (source-rest-arg (nth 2 parsed-source-arglist))
2450 (parsed-target-arglist (ad-parse-arglist target-arglist))
2451 (target-reqopt-args (append (nth 0 parsed-target-arglist)
2452 (nth 1 parsed-target-arglist)))
2453 (target-rest-arg (nth 2 parsed-target-arglist))
2454 (need-apply (and source-rest-arg target-rest-arg))
2455 (target-arg-index -1))
2456 ;; This produces ``error-proof'' target function calls with the exception
2457 ;; of a case like (&rest a) mapped onto (x &rest y) where the actual args
2458 ;; supplied to A might not be enough to supply the required target arg X
2459 (append (list (if need-apply 'apply 'funcall) 'ad--addoit-function)
2460 (cond (need-apply
2461 ;; `apply' can take care of that directly:
2462 (append source-reqopt-args (list source-rest-arg)))
2463 (t (mapcar (lambda (_arg)
2464 (setq target-arg-index (1+ target-arg-index))
2465 (ad-get-argument
2466 source-arglist target-arg-index))
2467 (append target-reqopt-args
2468 (and target-rest-arg
2469 ;; If we have a rest arg gobble up
2470 ;; remaining source args:
2471 (nthcdr (length target-reqopt-args)
2472 source-reqopt-args)))))))))
2475 ;; @@@ Making an advised documentation string:
2476 ;; ===========================================
2477 ;; New policy: The documentation string for an advised function will be built
2478 ;; at the time the advised `documentation' function is called. This has the
2479 ;; following advantages:
2480 ;; 1) command-key substitutions will automatically be correct
2481 ;; 2) No wasted string space due to big advised docstrings in caches or
2482 ;; compiled files that contain preactivations
2483 ;; The overall overhead for this should be negligible because people normally
2484 ;; don't lookup documentation for the same function over and over again.
2486 (defun ad-make-single-advice-docstring (advice class &optional style)
2487 (let ((advice-docstring (ad-docstring (ad-advice-definition advice))))
2488 (cond ((eq style 'plain)
2489 advice-docstring)
2490 (t (if advice-docstring
2491 (format "%s-advice `%s':\n%s"
2492 (capitalize (symbol-name class))
2493 (ad-advice-name advice)
2494 advice-docstring)
2495 (format "%s-advice `%s'."
2496 (capitalize (symbol-name class))
2497 (ad-advice-name advice)))))))
2499 (require 'help-fns) ;For help-split-fundoc and help-add-fundoc-usage.
2501 (defun ad--make-advised-docstring (origdoc function &optional style)
2502 "Construct a documentation string for the advised FUNCTION.
2503 It concatenates the original documentation with the documentation
2504 strings of the individual pieces of advice which will be formatted
2505 according to STYLE. STYLE can be `plain', everything else
2506 will be interpreted as `default'. The order of the advice documentation
2507 strings corresponds to before/around/after and the individual ordering
2508 in any of these classes."
2509 (if (and (symbolp function)
2510 (string-match "\\`ad-+Advice-" (symbol-name function)))
2511 (setq function
2512 (intern (substring (symbol-name function) (match-end 0)))))
2513 (let* ((usage (help-split-fundoc origdoc function))
2514 paragraphs advice-docstring)
2515 (setq usage (if (null usage) t (setq origdoc (cdr usage)) (car usage)))
2516 (if origdoc (setq paragraphs (list origdoc)))
2517 (dolist (class ad-advice-classes)
2518 (dolist (advice (ad-get-enabled-advices function class))
2519 (setq advice-docstring
2520 (ad-make-single-advice-docstring advice class style))
2521 (if advice-docstring
2522 (push advice-docstring paragraphs))))
2523 (setq origdoc (if paragraphs
2524 (propertize
2525 ;; separate paragraphs with blank lines:
2526 (mapconcat 'identity (nreverse paragraphs) "\n\n")
2527 ;; FIXME: what is this for?
2528 'dynamic-docstring-function
2529 #'ad--make-advised-docstring)))
2530 (help-add-fundoc-usage origdoc usage)))
2533 ;; @@@ Accessing overriding arglists and interactive forms:
2534 ;; ========================================================
2536 (defun ad-advised-arglist (function)
2537 "Find first defined arglist in FUNCTION's redefining advices."
2538 (cl-dolist (advice (append (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'before)
2539 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'around)
2540 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'after)))
2541 (let ((arglist (ad-arglist (ad-advice-definition advice))))
2542 (if arglist
2543 ;; We found the first one, use it:
2544 (cl-return arglist)))))
2546 (defun ad-advised-interactive-form (function)
2547 "Find first interactive form in FUNCTION's redefining advices."
2548 (cl-dolist (advice (append (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'before)
2549 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'around)
2550 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'after)))
2551 (let ((interactive-form
2552 (ad-interactive-form (ad-advice-definition advice))))
2553 (if interactive-form
2554 ;; We found the first one, use it:
2555 (cl-return interactive-form)))))
2557 ;; @@@ Putting it all together:
2558 ;; ============================
2560 (defun ad-make-advised-definition (function)
2561 "Generate an advised definition of FUNCTION from its advice info."
2562 (if (and (ad-is-advised function)
2563 (ad-has-redefining-advice function))
2564 (let* ((origdef (ad-real-orig-definition function))
2565 ;; Construct the individual pieces that we need for assembly:
2566 (orig-arglist (let ((args (ad-arglist origdef)))
2567 ;; The arglist may still be unknown.
2568 (if (listp args) args '(&rest args))))
2569 (advised-arglist (or (ad-advised-arglist function)
2570 orig-arglist))
2571 (interactive-form (ad-advised-interactive-form function))
2572 (orig-form
2573 (ad-map-arglists advised-arglist orig-arglist)))
2575 ;; Finally, build the sucker:
2576 (ad-assemble-advised-definition
2577 advised-arglist
2578 (ad-make-advised-definition-docstring function)
2579 interactive-form
2580 orig-form
2581 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'before)
2582 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'around)
2583 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'after)))))
2585 (defun ad-assemble-advised-definition
2586 (args docstring interactive orig &optional befores arounds afters)
2587 "Assemble the advices into an overall advice function.
2588 ARGS is the argument list that has to be used,
2589 DOCSTRING if non-nil defines the documentation of the definition,
2590 INTERACTIVE if non-nil is the interactive form to be used,
2591 ORIG is a form that calls the body of the original unadvised function,
2592 and BEFORES, AROUNDS and AFTERS are the lists of advices with which ORIG
2593 should be modified. The assembled function will be returned."
2594 ;; The ad-do-it call should always have the right number of arguments,
2595 ;; but the compiler might signal a bogus warning because it checks the call
2596 ;; against the advertised calling convention.
2597 (let ((around-form `(setq ad-return-value (with-no-warnings ,orig)))
2598 before-forms around-form-protected after-forms definition)
2599 (dolist (advice befores)
2600 (cond ((and (ad-advice-protected advice)
2601 before-forms)
2602 (setq before-forms
2603 `((unwind-protect
2604 ,(macroexp-progn before-forms)
2605 ,@(ad-body-forms
2606 (ad-advice-definition advice))))))
2607 (t (setq before-forms
2608 (append before-forms
2609 (ad-body-forms (ad-advice-definition advice)))))))
2611 (dolist (advice (reverse arounds))
2612 ;; If any of the around advices is protected then we
2613 ;; protect the complete around advice onion:
2614 (if (ad-advice-protected advice)
2615 (setq around-form-protected t))
2616 (setq around-form
2617 (ad-substitute-tree
2618 (lambda (form) (eq form 'ad-do-it))
2619 (lambda (_form) around-form)
2620 (macroexp-progn (ad-body-forms (ad-advice-definition advice))))))
2622 (setq after-forms
2623 (if (and around-form-protected before-forms)
2624 `((unwind-protect
2625 ,(macroexp-progn before-forms)
2626 ,around-form))
2627 (append before-forms (list around-form))))
2628 (dolist (advice afters)
2629 (cond ((and (ad-advice-protected advice)
2630 after-forms)
2631 (setq after-forms
2632 `((unwind-protect
2633 ,(macroexp-progn after-forms)
2634 ,@(ad-body-forms
2635 (ad-advice-definition advice))))))
2636 (t (setq after-forms
2637 (append after-forms
2638 (ad-body-forms (ad-advice-definition advice)))))))
2640 (setq definition
2641 `(lambda (ad--addoit-function ,@args)
2642 ,@(if docstring (list docstring))
2643 ,@(if interactive (list interactive))
2644 (let (ad-return-value)
2645 ,@after-forms
2646 ad-return-value)))
2648 (ad-insert-argument-access-forms definition args)))
2650 ;; This is needed for activation/deactivation hooks:
2651 (defun ad-make-hook-form (function hook-name)
2652 "Make hook-form from FUNCTION's advice bodies in class HOOK-NAME."
2653 (let ((hook-forms
2654 (mapcar (function (lambda (advice)
2655 (ad-body-forms (ad-advice-definition advice))))
2656 (ad-get-enabled-advices function hook-name))))
2657 (if hook-forms
2658 (macroexp-progn (apply 'append hook-forms)))))
2661 ;; @@ Caching:
2662 ;; ===========
2663 ;; Generating an advised definition of a function is moderately expensive,
2664 ;; hence, it makes sense to cache it so we can reuse it in appropriate
2665 ;; circumstances. Of course, it only makes sense to reuse a cached
2666 ;; definition if the current advice and function definition state is the
2667 ;; same as it was at the time when the cached definition was generated.
2668 ;; For that purpose we associate every cache with an id so we can verify
2669 ;; if it is still valid at a certain point in time. This id mechanism
2670 ;; makes it possible to preactivate advised functions, write the compiled
2671 ;; advised definitions to a file and reuse them during the actual
2672 ;; activation without having to risk that the resulting definition will be
2673 ;; incorrect, well, almost.
2675 ;; A cache id is a list with six elements:
2676 ;; 1) the list of names of enabled before advices
2677 ;; 2) the list of names of enabled around advices
2678 ;; 3) the list of names of enabled after advices
2679 ;; 4) the type of the original function (macro, subr, etc.)
2680 ;; 5) the arglist of the original definition (or t if it was equal to the
2681 ;; arglist of the cached definition)
2682 ;; 6) t if the interactive form of the original definition was equal to the
2683 ;; interactive form of the cached definition
2685 ;; Here's how a cache can get invalidated or be incorrect:
2686 ;; A) a piece of advice used in the cache gets redefined
2687 ;; B) the current list of enabled advices is different from the ones used
2688 ;; for the cache
2689 ;; C) the type of the original function changed, e.g., a function became a
2690 ;; macro, or a subr became a function
2691 ;; D) the arglist of the original function changed
2692 ;; E) the interactive form of the original function changed
2693 ;; F) a piece of advice used in the cache got redefined before the
2694 ;; defadvice with the cached definition got loaded: This is a PROBLEM!
2696 ;; Cases A and B are the normal ones. A is taken care of by `ad-add-advice'
2697 ;; which clears the cache in such a case, B is easily checked during
2698 ;; verification at activation time.
2700 ;; Cases C, D and E have to be considered if one is slightly paranoid, i.e.,
2701 ;; if one considers the case that the original function could be different
2702 ;; from the one available at caching time (e.g., for forward advice of
2703 ;; functions that get redefined by some packages - such as `eval-region' gets
2704 ;; redefined by edebug). All these cases can be easily checked during
2705 ;; verification. Element 4 of the id lets one check case C, element 5 takes
2706 ;; care of case D (using t in the equality case saves some space, because the
2707 ;; arglist can be recovered at validation time from the cached definition),
2708 ;; and element 6 takes care of case E which is only a problem if the original
2709 ;; was actually a function whose interactive form was not overridden by a
2710 ;; piece of advice.
2712 ;; Case F is the only one which will lead to an incorrect advised function.
2713 ;; There is no way to avoid this without storing the complete advice definition
2714 ;; in the cache-id which is not feasible.
2716 ;; The cache-id of a typical advised function with one piece of advice and
2717 ;; no arglist redefinition takes 7 conses which is a small price to pay for
2718 ;; the added efficiency. The validation itself is also pretty cheap, certainly
2719 ;; a lot cheaper than reconstructing an advised definition.
2721 (defmacro ad-get-cache-definition (function)
2722 `(car (ad-get-advice-info-field ,function 'cache)))
2724 (defmacro ad-get-cache-id (function)
2725 `(cdr (ad-get-advice-info-field ,function 'cache)))
2727 (defmacro ad-set-cache (function definition id)
2728 `(ad-set-advice-info-field
2729 ,function 'cache (cons ,definition ,id)))
2731 (defun ad-clear-cache (function)
2732 "Clears a previously cached advised definition of FUNCTION.
2733 Clear the cache if you want to force `ad-activate' to construct a new
2734 advised definition from scratch."
2735 (interactive
2736 (list (ad-read-advised-function "Clear cached definition of")))
2737 (ad-set-advice-info-field function 'cache nil))
2739 (defun ad-make-cache-id (function)
2740 "Generate an identifying image of the current advices of FUNCTION."
2741 (let ((original-definition (ad-real-orig-definition function))
2742 (cached-definition (ad-get-cache-definition function)))
2743 (list (mapcar #'ad-advice-name
2744 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'before))
2745 (mapcar #'ad-advice-name
2746 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'around))
2747 (mapcar #'ad-advice-name
2748 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'after))
2749 (ad-definition-type original-definition)
2750 (if (equal (ad-arglist original-definition)
2751 (ad-arglist cached-definition))
2753 (ad-arglist original-definition))
2754 (if (eq (ad-definition-type original-definition) 'function)
2755 (equal (interactive-form original-definition)
2756 (interactive-form cached-definition))))))
2758 (defun ad-get-cache-class-id (function class)
2759 "Return the part of FUNCTION's cache id that identifies CLASS."
2760 (let ((cache-id (ad-get-cache-id function)))
2761 (if (eq class 'before)
2762 (car cache-id)
2763 (if (eq class 'around)
2764 (nth 1 cache-id)
2765 (nth 2 cache-id)))))
2767 (defun ad-verify-cache-class-id (cache-class-id advices)
2768 (cl-dolist (advice advices (null cache-class-id))
2769 (if (ad-advice-enabled advice)
2770 (if (eq (car cache-class-id) (ad-advice-name advice))
2771 (setq cache-class-id (cdr cache-class-id))
2772 (cl-return nil)))))
2774 ;; There should be a way to monitor if and why a cache verification failed
2775 ;; in order to determine whether a certain preactivation could be used or
2776 ;; not. Right now the only way to find out is to trace
2777 ;; `ad-cache-id-verification-code'. The code it returns indicates where the
2778 ;; verification failed. Tracing `ad-verify-cache-class-id' might provide
2779 ;; some additional useful information.
2781 (defun ad-cache-id-verification-code (function)
2782 (let ((cache-id (ad-get-cache-id function))
2783 (code 'before-advice-mismatch))
2784 (and (ad-verify-cache-class-id
2785 (car cache-id) (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'before))
2786 (setq code 'around-advice-mismatch)
2787 (ad-verify-cache-class-id
2788 (nth 1 cache-id) (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'around))
2789 (setq code 'after-advice-mismatch)
2790 (ad-verify-cache-class-id
2791 (nth 2 cache-id) (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'after))
2792 (setq code 'definition-type-mismatch)
2793 (let ((original-definition (ad-real-orig-definition function))
2794 (cached-definition (ad-get-cache-definition function)))
2795 (and (eq (nth 3 cache-id) (ad-definition-type original-definition))
2796 (setq code 'arglist-mismatch)
2797 (equal (if (eq (nth 4 cache-id) t)
2798 (ad-arglist original-definition)
2799 (nth 4 cache-id) )
2800 (ad-arglist cached-definition))
2801 (setq code 'interactive-form-mismatch)
2802 (or (null (nth 5 cache-id))
2803 (equal (interactive-form original-definition)
2804 (interactive-form cached-definition)))
2805 (setq code 'verified))))
2806 code))
2808 (defun ad-verify-cache-id (function)
2809 "True if FUNCTION's cache-id is compatible with its current advices."
2810 (eq (ad-cache-id-verification-code function) 'verified))
2813 ;; @@ Preactivation:
2814 ;; =================
2815 ;; Preactivation can be used to generate compiled advised definitions
2816 ;; at compile time without having to give up the dynamic runtime flexibility
2817 ;; of the advice mechanism. Preactivation is a special feature of `defadvice',
2818 ;; it involves the following steps:
2819 ;; - remembering the function's current state (definition and advice-info)
2820 ;; - advising it with the defined piece of advice
2821 ;; - clearing its cache
2822 ;; - generating an interpreted advised definition by activating it, this will
2823 ;; make use of all its current active advice and its current definition
2824 ;; - saving the so generated cached definition and id
2825 ;; - resetting the function's advice and definition state to what it was
2826 ;; before the preactivation
2827 ;; - Returning the saved definition and its id to be used in the expansion of
2828 ;; `defadvice' to assign it as an initial cache, hence it will be compiled
2829 ;; at time the `defadvice' gets compiled.
2830 ;; Naturally, for preactivation to be effective it has to be applied/compiled
2831 ;; at the right time, i.e., when the current state of advices and function
2832 ;; definition exactly reflects the state at activation time. Should that not
2833 ;; be the case, the precompiled definition will just be discarded and a new
2834 ;; advised definition will be generated.
2836 (defun ad-preactivate-advice (function advice class position)
2837 "Preactivate FUNCTION and returns the constructed cache."
2838 (let* ((advicefunname (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'advicefunname))
2839 (old-advice (symbol-function advicefunname))
2840 (old-advice-info (ad-copy-advice-info function))
2841 (ad-advised-functions ad-advised-functions))
2842 (unwind-protect
2843 (progn
2844 (ad-add-advice function advice class position)
2845 (ad-enable-advice function class (ad-advice-name advice))
2846 (ad-clear-cache function)
2847 (ad-activate function -1)
2848 (if (and (ad-is-active function)
2849 (ad-get-cache-definition function))
2850 (list (ad-get-cache-definition function)
2851 (ad-get-cache-id function))))
2852 (ad-set-advice-info function old-advice-info)
2853 (advice-remove function advicefunname)
2854 (fset advicefunname old-advice)
2855 (if old-advice (advice-add function :around advicefunname)))))
2858 ;; @@ Activation and definition handling:
2859 ;; ======================================
2861 (defun ad-should-compile (function compile)
2862 "Return non-nil if the advised FUNCTION should be compiled.
2863 If COMPILE is non-nil and not a negative number then it returns t.
2864 If COMPILE is a negative number then it returns nil.
2865 If COMPILE is nil then the result depends on the value of
2866 `ad-default-compilation-action' (which see)."
2867 (cond
2868 ;; Don't compile until the real function definition is known (bug#12965).
2869 ((not (ad-real-orig-definition function)) nil)
2870 ((integerp compile) (>= compile 0))
2871 (compile)
2872 ((eq ad-default-compilation-action 'never) nil)
2873 ((eq ad-default-compilation-action 'always) t)
2874 ((eq ad-default-compilation-action 'like-original)
2875 (or (subrp (ad-get-orig-definition function))
2876 (ad-compiled-p (ad-get-orig-definition function))))
2877 ;; everything else means `maybe':
2878 (t (featurep 'byte-compile))))
2880 (defun ad-activate-advised-definition (function compile)
2881 "Redefine FUNCTION with its advised definition from cache or scratch.
2882 The resulting FUNCTION will be compiled if `ad-should-compile' returns t.
2883 The current definition and its cache-id will be put into the cache."
2884 (let* ((verified-cached-definition
2885 (if (ad-verify-cache-id function)
2886 (ad-get-cache-definition function)))
2887 (advicefunname (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'advicefunname))
2888 (old-ispec (interactive-form advicefunname)))
2889 (fset advicefunname
2890 (or verified-cached-definition
2891 (ad-make-advised-definition function)))
2892 (unless (equal (interactive-form advicefunname) old-ispec)
2893 ;; If the interactive-spec of advicefunname has changed, force nadvice to
2894 ;; refresh its copy.
2895 (advice-remove function advicefunname))
2896 (advice-add function :around advicefunname)
2897 (if (ad-should-compile function compile)
2898 (ad-compile-function function))
2899 (if verified-cached-definition
2900 (if (not (eq verified-cached-definition
2901 (symbol-function advicefunname)))
2902 ;; we must have compiled, cache the compiled definition:
2903 (ad-set-cache function (symbol-function advicefunname)
2904 (ad-get-cache-id function)))
2905 ;; We created a new advised definition, cache it with a proper id:
2906 (ad-clear-cache function)
2907 ;; ad-make-cache-id needs the new cached definition:
2908 (ad-set-cache function (symbol-function advicefunname) nil)
2909 (ad-set-cache
2910 function (symbol-function advicefunname) (ad-make-cache-id function)))))
2912 (defun ad--defalias-fset (fsetfun function newdef)
2913 ;; Besides ad-redefinition-action we use this defalias-fset-function hook
2914 ;; for two other reasons:
2915 ;; - for `activation/deactivation' advices.
2916 ;; - to rebuild the ad-Advice-* function with the right argument names.
2917 "Handle re/definition of an advised FUNCTION during de/activation.
2918 If FUNCTION does not have an original definition associated with it and
2919 the current definition is usable, then it will be stored as FUNCTION's
2920 original definition. If no current definition is available (even in the
2921 case of undefinition) nothing will be done. In the case of redefinition
2922 the action taken depends on the value of `ad-redefinition-action' (which
2923 see). Redefinition occurs when FUNCTION already has an original definition
2924 associated with it but got redefined with a new definition and then
2925 de/activated. If you do not like the current redefinition action change
2926 the value of `ad-redefinition-action' and de/activate again."
2927 (let ((original-definition (ad-get-orig-definition function))
2928 (current-definition (ad-get-orig-definition newdef)))
2929 (if original-definition
2930 (if current-definition
2931 (if (not (eq current-definition original-definition))
2932 ;; We have a redefinition:
2933 (if (not (memq ad-redefinition-action '(accept discard warn)))
2934 (error "ad-redefinition-action: `%s' %s"
2935 function "invalidly redefined")
2936 (if (eq ad-redefinition-action 'discard)
2937 nil ;; Just drop it!
2938 (funcall (or fsetfun #'fset) function newdef)
2939 (ad-activate-internal function)
2940 (if (eq ad-redefinition-action 'warn)
2941 (message "ad-handle-definition: `%s' got redefined"
2942 function))))
2943 ;; either advised def or correct original is in place:
2944 nil)
2945 ;; We have an undefinition, ignore it:
2946 (funcall (or fsetfun #'fset) function newdef))
2947 (funcall (or fsetfun #'fset) function newdef)
2948 (when current-definition (ad-activate-internal function)))))
2951 ;; @@ The top-level advice interface:
2952 ;; ==================================
2954 ;;;###autoload
2955 (defun ad-activate (function &optional compile)
2956 "Activate all the advice information of an advised FUNCTION.
2957 If FUNCTION has a proper original definition then an advised
2958 definition will be generated from FUNCTION's advice info and the
2959 definition of FUNCTION will be replaced with it. If a previously
2960 cached advised definition was available, it will be used.
2961 The optional COMPILE argument determines whether the resulting function
2962 or a compilable cached definition will be compiled. If it is negative
2963 no compilation will be performed, if it is positive or otherwise non-nil
2964 the resulting function will be compiled, if it is nil the behavior depends
2965 on the value of `ad-default-compilation-action' (which see).
2966 Activation of an advised function that has an advice info but no actual
2967 pieces of advice is equivalent to a call to `ad-unadvise'. Activation of
2968 an advised function that has actual pieces of advice but none of them are
2969 enabled is equivalent to a call to `ad-deactivate'. The current advised
2970 definition will always be cached for later usage."
2971 (interactive
2972 (list (ad-read-advised-function "Activate advice of")
2973 current-prefix-arg))
2974 (cond
2975 ((not (ad-is-advised function))
2976 (error "ad-activate: `%s' is not advised" function))
2977 ;; Just return for forward advised and not yet defined functions:
2978 ((not (ad-get-orig-definition function)) nil)
2979 ((not (ad-has-any-advice function)) (ad-unadvise function))
2980 ;; Otherwise activate the advice:
2981 ((ad-has-redefining-advice function)
2982 (ad-activate-advised-definition function compile)
2983 (ad-set-advice-info-field function 'active t)
2984 (eval (ad-make-hook-form function 'activation))
2985 function)
2986 ;; Here we are if we have all disabled advices:
2987 (t (ad-deactivate function))))
2989 (defalias 'ad-activate-on 'ad-activate)
2991 (defun ad-deactivate (function)
2992 "Deactivate the advice of an actively advised FUNCTION.
2993 If FUNCTION has a proper original definition, then the current
2994 definition of FUNCTION will be replaced with it. All the advice
2995 information will still be available so it can be activated again with
2996 a call to `ad-activate'."
2997 (interactive
2998 (list (ad-read-advised-function "Deactivate advice of" 'ad-is-active)))
2999 (if (not (ad-is-advised function))
3000 (error "ad-deactivate: `%s' is not advised" function)
3001 (cond ((ad-is-active function)
3002 (if (not (ad-get-orig-definition function))
3003 (error "ad-deactivate: `%s' has no original definition"
3004 function)
3005 (ad-clear-advicefunname-definition function)
3006 (ad-set-advice-info-field function 'active nil)
3007 (eval (ad-make-hook-form function 'deactivation))
3008 function)))))
3010 (defun ad-update (function &optional compile)
3011 "Update the advised definition of FUNCTION if its advice is active.
3012 See `ad-activate' for documentation on the optional COMPILE argument."
3013 (interactive
3014 (list (ad-read-advised-function
3015 "Update advised definition of" 'ad-is-active)))
3016 (if (ad-is-active function)
3017 (ad-activate function compile)))
3019 (defun ad-unadvise (function)
3020 "Deactivate FUNCTION and then remove all its advice information.
3021 If FUNCTION was not advised this will be a noop."
3022 (interactive
3023 (list (ad-read-advised-function "Unadvise function")))
3024 (cond ((ad-is-advised function)
3025 (if (ad-is-active function)
3026 (ad-deactivate function))
3027 (ad-clear-advicefunname-definition function)
3028 (ad-set-advice-info function nil)
3029 (ad-pop-advised-function function))))
3031 (defun ad-recover (function)
3032 "Try to recover FUNCTION's original definition, and unadvise it.
3033 This is more low-level than `ad-unadvise' in that it does not do
3034 deactivation, which might run hooks and get into other trouble.
3035 Use in emergencies."
3036 ;; Use more primitive interactive behavior here: Accept any symbol that's
3037 ;; currently defined in obarray, not necessarily with a function definition:
3038 (interactive
3039 (list (intern
3040 (completing-read "Recover advised function: " obarray nil t))))
3041 (cond ((ad-is-advised function)
3042 (ad-clear-advicefunname-definition function)
3043 (ad-set-advice-info function nil)
3044 (ad-pop-advised-function function))))
3046 (defun ad-activate-regexp (regexp &optional compile)
3047 "Activate functions with an advice name containing a REGEXP match.
3048 This activates the advice for each function
3049 that has at least one piece of advice whose name includes a match for REGEXP.
3050 See `ad-activate' for documentation on the optional COMPILE argument."
3051 (interactive
3052 (list (ad-read-regexp "Activate via advice regexp")
3053 current-prefix-arg))
3054 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3055 (if (ad-find-some-advice function 'any regexp)
3056 (ad-activate function compile))))
3058 (defun ad-deactivate-regexp (regexp)
3059 "Deactivate functions with an advice name containing REGEXP match.
3060 This deactivates the advice for each function
3061 that has at least one piece of advice whose name includes a match for REGEXP."
3062 (interactive
3063 (list (ad-read-regexp "Deactivate via advice regexp")))
3064 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3065 (if (ad-find-some-advice function 'any regexp)
3066 (ad-deactivate function))))
3068 (defun ad-update-regexp (regexp &optional compile)
3069 "Update functions with an advice name containing a REGEXP match.
3070 This reactivates the advice for each function
3071 that has at least one piece of advice whose name includes a match for REGEXP.
3072 See `ad-activate' for documentation on the optional COMPILE argument."
3073 (interactive
3074 (list (ad-read-regexp "Update via advice regexp")
3075 current-prefix-arg))
3076 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3077 (if (ad-find-some-advice function 'any regexp)
3078 (ad-update function compile))))
3080 (defun ad-activate-all (&optional compile)
3081 "Activate all currently advised functions.
3082 See `ad-activate' for documentation on the optional COMPILE argument."
3083 (interactive "P")
3084 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3085 (ad-activate function compile)))
3087 (defun ad-deactivate-all ()
3088 "Deactivate all currently advised functions."
3089 (interactive)
3090 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3091 (ad-deactivate function)))
3093 (defun ad-update-all (&optional compile)
3094 "Update all currently advised functions.
3095 With prefix argument, COMPILE resulting advised definitions."
3096 (interactive "P")
3097 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3098 (ad-update function compile)))
3100 (defun ad-unadvise-all ()
3101 "Unadvise all currently advised functions."
3102 (interactive)
3103 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3104 (ad-unadvise function)))
3106 (defun ad-recover-all ()
3107 "Recover all currently advised functions. Use in emergencies.
3108 To recover a function means to try to find its original (pre-advice)
3109 definition, and delete all advice.
3110 This is more low-level than `ad-unadvise' in that it does not do
3111 deactivation, which might run hooks and get into other trouble."
3112 (interactive)
3113 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3114 (condition-case nil
3115 (ad-recover function)
3116 (error nil))))
3119 ;; Completion alist of valid `defadvice' flags
3120 (defvar ad-defadvice-flags
3121 '(("protect") ("disable") ("activate")
3122 ("compile") ("preactivate")))
3124 ;;;###autoload
3125 (defmacro defadvice (function args &rest body)
3126 "Define a piece of advice for FUNCTION (a symbol).
3127 The syntax of `defadvice' is as follows:
3129 \(defadvice FUNCTION (CLASS NAME [POSITION] [ARGLIST] FLAG...)
3130 [DOCSTRING] [INTERACTIVE-FORM]
3131 BODY...)
3133 FUNCTION ::= Name of the function to be advised.
3134 CLASS ::= `before' | `around' | `after' | `activation' | `deactivation'.
3135 NAME ::= Non-nil symbol that names this piece of advice.
3136 POSITION ::= `first' | `last' | NUMBER. Optional, defaults to `first',
3137 see also `ad-add-advice'.
3138 ARGLIST ::= An optional argument list to be used for the advised function
3139 instead of the argument list of the original. The first one found in
3140 before/around/after-advices will be used.
3141 FLAG ::= `protect'|`disable'|`activate'|`compile'|`preactivate'.
3142 All flags can be specified with unambiguous initial substrings.
3143 DOCSTRING ::= Optional documentation for this piece of advice.
3144 INTERACTIVE-FORM ::= Optional interactive form to be used for the advised
3145 function. The first one found in before/around/after-advices will be used.
3146 BODY ::= Any s-expression.
3148 Semantics of the various flags:
3149 `protect': The piece of advice will be protected against non-local exits in
3150 any code that precedes it. If any around-advice of a function is protected
3151 then automatically all around-advices will be protected (the complete onion).
3153 `activate': All advice of FUNCTION will be activated immediately if
3154 FUNCTION has been properly defined prior to this application of `defadvice'.
3156 `compile': In conjunction with `activate' specifies that the resulting
3157 advised function should be compiled.
3159 `disable': The defined advice will be disabled, hence, it will not be used
3160 during activation until somebody enables it.
3162 `preactivate': Preactivates the advised FUNCTION at macro-expansion/compile
3163 time. This generates a compiled advised definition according to the current
3164 advice state that will be used during activation if appropriate. Only use
3165 this if the `defadvice' gets actually compiled.
3167 See Info node `(elisp)Advising Functions' for comprehensive documentation.
3168 usage: (defadvice FUNCTION (CLASS NAME [POSITION] [ARGLIST] FLAG...)
3169 [DOCSTRING] [INTERACTIVE-FORM]
3170 BODY...)"
3171 (declare (doc-string 3) (indent 2)
3172 (debug (&define name ;; thing being advised.
3173 (name ;; class is [&or "before" "around" "after"
3174 ;; "activation" "deactivation"]
3175 name ;; name of advice
3176 &rest sexp ;; optional position and flags
3178 [&optional stringp]
3179 [&optional ("interactive" interactive)]
3180 def-body)))
3181 (if (not (ad-name-p function))
3182 (error "defadvice: Invalid function name: %s" function))
3183 (let* ((class (car args))
3184 (name (if (not (ad-class-p class))
3185 (error "defadvice: Invalid advice class: %s" class)
3186 (nth 1 args)))
3187 (position (if (not (ad-name-p name))
3188 (error "defadvice: Invalid advice name: %s" name)
3189 (setq args (nthcdr 2 args))
3190 (if (ad-position-p (car args))
3191 (prog1 (car args)
3192 (setq args (cdr args))))))
3193 (arglist (if (listp (car args))
3194 (prog1 (car args)
3195 (setq args (cdr args)))))
3196 (flags
3197 (mapcar
3198 (function
3199 (lambda (flag)
3200 (let ((completion
3201 (try-completion (symbol-name flag) ad-defadvice-flags)))
3202 (cond ((eq completion t) flag)
3203 ((assoc completion ad-defadvice-flags)
3204 (intern completion))
3205 (t (error "defadvice: Invalid or ambiguous flag: %s"
3206 flag))))))
3207 args))
3208 (advice (ad-make-advice
3209 name (memq 'protect flags)
3210 (not (memq 'disable flags))
3211 `(advice lambda ,arglist ,@body)))
3212 (preactivation (if (memq 'preactivate flags)
3213 (ad-preactivate-advice
3214 function advice class position))))
3215 ;; Now for the things to be done at evaluation time:
3216 `(progn
3217 (ad-add-advice ',function ',advice ',class ',position)
3218 ,@(if preactivation
3219 `((ad-set-cache
3220 ',function
3221 ;; the function will get compiled:
3222 ,(cond ((macrop (car preactivation))
3223 `(ad-macrofy
3224 (function
3225 ,(ad-lambdafy
3226 (car preactivation)))))
3227 (t `(function
3228 ,(car preactivation))))
3229 ',(car (cdr preactivation)))))
3230 ,@(if (memq 'activate flags)
3231 `((ad-activate ',function
3232 ,(if (memq 'compile flags) t))))
3233 ',function)))
3236 ;; @@ Tools:
3237 ;; =========
3239 (defmacro ad-with-originals (functions &rest body)
3240 "Binds FUNCTIONS to their original definitions and execute BODY.
3241 For any members of FUNCTIONS that are not currently advised the rebinding will
3242 be a noop. Any modifications done to the definitions of FUNCTIONS will be
3243 undone on exit of this macro."
3244 (declare (indent 1))
3245 (let* ((index -1)
3246 ;; Make let-variables to store current definitions:
3247 (current-bindings
3248 (mapcar (function
3249 (lambda (function)
3250 (setq index (1+ index))
3251 (list (intern (format "ad-oRiGdEf-%d" index))
3252 `(symbol-function ',function))))
3253 functions)))
3254 `(let ,current-bindings
3255 (unwind-protect
3256 (progn
3257 ,@(progn
3258 ;; Make forms to redefine functions to their
3259 ;; original definitions if they are advised:
3260 (setq index -1)
3261 (mapcar (lambda (function)
3262 (setq index (1+ index))
3263 `(fset ',function
3264 (or (ad-get-orig-definition ',function)
3265 ,(car (nth index current-bindings)))))
3266 functions))
3267 ,@body)
3268 ,@(progn
3269 ;; Make forms to back-define functions to the definitions
3270 ;; they had outside this macro call:
3271 (setq index -1)
3272 (mapcar (lambda (function)
3273 (setq index (1+ index))
3274 `(fset ',function
3275 ,(car (nth index current-bindings))))
3276 functions))))))
3279 ;; @@ Starting, stopping and recovering from the advice package magic:
3280 ;; ===================================================================
3282 (defun ad-recover-normality ()
3283 "Undo all advice related redefinitions and unadvises everything.
3284 Use only in REAL emergencies."
3285 (interactive)
3286 (ad-recover-all)
3287 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3288 (message "Oops! Left over advised function %S" function)
3289 (ad-pop-advised-function function)))
3291 (provide 'advice)
3293 ;;; advice.el ends here