1 ;; autoload.el --- maintain autoloads in loaddefs.el -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1991-1997, 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>
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26 ;; This code helps GNU Emacs maintainers keep the loaddefs.el file up to
27 ;; date. It interprets magic cookies of the form ";;;###autoload" in
28 ;; lisp source files in various useful ways. To learn more, read the
29 ;; source; if you're going to use this, you'd better be able to.
33 (require 'lisp-mode
) ;for `doc-string-elt' properties.
35 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl-lib
))
37 (defvar generated-autoload-file nil
38 "File into which to write autoload definitions.
39 A Lisp file can set this in its local variables section to make
40 its autoloads go somewhere else.
42 If this is a relative file name, the directory is determined as
44 - If a Lisp file defined `generated-autoload-file' as a
45 file-local variable, use its containing directory.
46 - Otherwise use the \"lisp\" subdirectory of `source-directory'.
48 The autoload file is assumed to contain a trailer starting with a
51 (put 'generated-autoload-file
'safe-local-variable
'stringp
)
53 (defvar generated-autoload-load-name nil
54 "Load name for `autoload' statements generated from autoload cookies.
55 If nil, this defaults to the file name, sans extension.
56 Typically, you need to set this when the directory containing the file
57 is not in `load-path'.
58 This also affects the generated cus-load.el file.")
60 (put 'generated-autoload-load-name
'safe-local-variable
'stringp
)
62 ;; This feels like it should be a defconst, but MH-E sets it to
63 ;; ";;;###mh-autoload" for the autoloads that are to go into mh-loaddefs.el.
64 (defvar generate-autoload-cookie
";;;###autoload"
65 "Magic comment indicating the following form should be autoloaded.
66 Used by \\[update-file-autoloads]. This string should be
67 meaningless to Lisp (e.g., a comment).
72 \(defun function-to-be-autoloaded () ...)
74 If this string appears alone on a line, the following form will be
75 read and an autoload made for it. If there is further text on the line,
76 that text will be copied verbatim to `generated-autoload-file'.")
78 (defvar autoload-excludes nil
79 "If non-nil, list of absolute file names not to scan for autoloads.")
81 (defconst generate-autoload-section-header
"\f\n;;;### "
82 "String that marks the form at the start of a new file's autoload section.")
84 (defconst generate-autoload-section-trailer
"\n;;;***\n"
85 "String which indicates the end of the section of autoloads for a file.")
87 (defconst generate-autoload-section-continuation
";;;;;; "
88 "String to add on each continuation of the section header form.")
90 ;; In some ways it would be nicer to use a value that is recognizably
91 ;; not a time-value, eg t, but that can cause issues if an older Emacs
92 ;; that does not expect non-time-values loads the file.
93 (defconst autoload--non-timestamp
'(0 0 0 0)
94 "Value to insert when `autoload-timestamps' is nil.")
96 (defvar autoload-timestamps nil
; experimental, see bug#22213
97 "Non-nil means insert a timestamp for each input file into the output.
98 We use these in incremental updates of the output file to decide
99 if we need to rescan an input file. If you set this to nil,
100 then we use the timestamp of the output file instead. As a result:
101 - for fixed inputs, the output will be the same every time
102 - incremental updates of the output file might not be correct if:
103 i) the timestamp of the output file cannot be trusted (at least
104 relative to that of the input files)
105 ii) any of the input files can be modified during the time it takes
107 iii) only a subset of the input files are scanned
108 These issues are unlikely to happen in practice, and would arguably
109 represent bugs in the build system. Item iii) will happen if you
110 use a command like `update-file-autoloads', though, since it only
111 checks a single input file.")
113 (defvar autoload-modified-buffers
) ;Dynamically scoped var.
115 (defun make-autoload (form file
&optional expansion
)
116 "Turn FORM into an autoload or defvar for source file FILE.
117 Returns nil if FORM is not a special autoload form (i.e. a function definition
118 or macro definition or a defcustom).
119 If EXPANSION is non-nil, we're processing the macro expansion of an
120 expression, in which case we want to handle forms differently."
121 (let ((car (car-safe form
)) expand
)
123 ((and expansion
(eq car
'defalias
))
125 ((`(,_
,_
,arg .
,rest
) form
)
126 ;; `type' is non-nil if it defines a macro.
127 ;; `fun' is the function part of `arg' (defaults to `arg').
128 ((or (and (or `(cons 'macro
,fun
) `'(macro .
,fun
)) (let type t
))
129 (and (let fun arg
) (let type nil
)))
131 ;; `lam' is the lambda expression in `fun' (or nil if not
133 (lam (if (memq (car-safe fun
) '(quote function
)) (cadr fun
)))
134 ;; `args' is the list of arguments (or t if not recognized).
135 ;; `body' is the body of `lam' (or t if not recognized).
136 ((or `(lambda ,args .
,body
)
137 (and (let args t
) (let body t
)))
139 ;; Get the `doc' from `body' or `rest'.
140 (doc (cond ((stringp (car-safe body
)) (car body
))
141 ((stringp (car-safe rest
)) (car rest
))))
142 ;; Look for an interactive spec.
143 (interactive (pcase body
144 ((or `((interactive .
,_
) .
,_
)
145 `(,_
(interactive .
,_
) .
,_
))
147 ;; Add the usage form at the end where describe-function-1
149 (when (listp args
) (setq doc
(help-add-fundoc-usage doc args
)))
150 ;; (message "autoload of %S" (nth 1 form))
151 `(autoload ,(nth 1 form
) ,file
,doc
,interactive
,type
)))
153 ((and expansion
(memq car
'(progn prog1
)))
154 (let ((end (memq :autoload-end form
)))
155 (when end
;Cut-off anything after the :autoload-end marker.
156 (setq form
(copy-sequence form
))
157 (setcdr (memq :autoload-end form
) nil
))
158 (let ((exps (delq nil
(mapcar (lambda (form)
159 (make-autoload form file expansion
))
161 (when exps
(cons 'progn exps
)))))
163 ;; For complex cases, try again on the macro-expansion.
164 ((and (memq car
'(easy-mmode-define-global-mode define-global-minor-mode
165 define-globalized-minor-mode defun
defmacro
166 easy-mmode-define-minor-mode define-minor-mode
167 define-inline cl-defun
cl-defmacro cl-defgeneric
170 (setq expand
(let ((load-file-name file
)) (macroexpand form
)))
171 (memq (car expand
) '(progn prog1 defalias
)))
172 (make-autoload expand file
'expansion
)) ;Recurse on the expansion.
174 ;; For special function-like operators, use the `autoload' function.
175 ((memq car
'(define-skeleton define-derived-mode
176 define-compilation-mode define-generic-mode
177 easy-mmode-define-global-mode define-global-minor-mode
178 define-globalized-minor-mode
179 easy-mmode-define-minor-mode define-minor-mode
180 cl-defun
defun* cl-defmacro defmacro
*
181 define-overloadable-function
))
182 (let* ((macrop (memq car
'(defmacro cl-defmacro defmacro
*)))
185 ((or `defun
`defmacro
186 `defun
* `defmacro
* `cl-defun
`cl-defmacro
187 `define-overloadable-function
)
189 (`define-skeleton
'(&optional str arg
))
190 ((or `define-generic-mode
`define-derived-mode
191 `define-compilation-mode
)
194 (body (nthcdr (or (function-get car
'doc-string-elt
) 3) form
))
195 (doc (if (stringp (car body
)) (pop body
))))
196 ;; Add the usage form at the end where describe-function-1
198 (when (listp args
) (setq doc
(help-add-fundoc-usage doc args
)))
199 ;; `define-generic-mode' quotes the name, so take care of that
200 `(autoload ,(if (listp name
) name
(list 'quote name
))
202 ,(or (and (memq car
'(define-skeleton define-derived-mode
204 easy-mmode-define-global-mode
205 define-global-minor-mode
206 define-globalized-minor-mode
207 easy-mmode-define-minor-mode
210 (eq (car-safe (car body
)) 'interactive
))
211 ,(if macrop
''macro nil
))))
213 ;; For defclass forms, use `eieio-defclass-autoload'.
215 (let ((name (nth 1 form
))
216 (superclasses (nth 2 form
))
218 (list 'eieio-defclass-autoload
(list 'quote name
)
219 (list 'quote superclasses
) file doc
)))
221 ;; Convert defcustom to less space-consuming data.
223 (let ((varname (car-safe (cdr-safe form
)))
224 (init (car-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe form
))))
225 (doc (car-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe form
)))))
226 ;; (rest (cdr-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe form)))))
229 (defvar ,varname
,init
,doc
)
230 (custom-autoload ',varname
,file
232 (null (cadr (memq :set form
)))
236 ;; In Emacs this is normally handled separately by cus-dep.el, but for
237 ;; third party packages, it can be convenient to explicitly autoload
239 (let ((groupname (nth 1 form
)))
240 `(let ((loads (get ',groupname
'custom-loads
)))
241 (if (member ',file loads
) nil
242 (put ',groupname
'custom-loads
(cons ',file loads
))))))
244 ;; When processing a macro expansion, any expression
245 ;; before a :autoload-end should be included. These are typically (put
246 ;; 'fun 'prop val) and things like that.
247 ((and expansion
(consp form
)) form
)
249 ;; nil here indicates that this is not a special autoload form.
252 ;; Forms which have doc-strings which should be printed specially.
253 ;; A doc-string-elt property of ELT says that (nth ELT FORM) is
254 ;; the doc-string in FORM.
255 ;; Those properties are now set in lisp-mode.el.
257 (defun autoload-find-generated-file ()
258 "Visit the autoload file for the current buffer, and return its buffer."
259 (let ((enable-local-variables :safe
)
260 (enable-local-eval nil
)
262 (file (autoload-generated-file)))
263 ;; We used to use `raw-text' to read this file, but this causes
264 ;; problems when the file contains non-ASCII characters.
265 (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect
266 (autoload-ensure-file-writeable file
))
267 (if (zerop (buffer-size)) (insert (autoload-rubric file nil t
)))
270 (defun autoload-generated-file ()
271 "Return `generated-autoload-file' as an absolute name.
272 If local to the current buffer, expand using the default directory;
273 otherwise, using `source-directory'/lisp."
274 (expand-file-name generated-autoload-file
275 ;; File-local settings of generated-autoload-file should
276 ;; be interpreted relative to the file's location,
278 (if (not (local-variable-p 'generated-autoload-file
))
279 (expand-file-name "lisp" source-directory
))))
282 (defun autoload-read-section-header ()
283 "Read a section header form.
284 Since continuation lines have been marked as comments,
285 we must copy the text of the form and remove those comment
286 markers before we call `read'."
288 (let ((beginning (point))
291 (while (looking-at generate-autoload-section-continuation
)
293 (setq string
(buffer-substring beginning
(point)))
294 (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create " *autoload*")
297 (goto-char (point-min))
298 (while (search-forward generate-autoload-section-continuation nil t
)
300 (goto-char (point-min))
301 (read (current-buffer))))))
303 (defvar autoload-print-form-outbuf nil
304 "Buffer which gets the output of `autoload-print-form'.")
306 (defun autoload-print-form (form)
307 "Print FORM such that `make-docfile' will find the docstrings.
308 The variable `autoload-print-form-outbuf' specifies the buffer to
311 ;; If the form is a sequence, recurse.
312 ((eq (car form
) 'progn
) (mapcar #'autoload-print-form
(cdr form
)))
313 ;; Symbols at the toplevel are meaningless.
316 (let ((doc-string-elt (function-get (car-safe form
) 'doc-string-elt
))
317 (outbuf autoload-print-form-outbuf
))
318 (if (and doc-string-elt
(stringp (nth doc-string-elt form
)))
319 ;; We need to hack the printing because the
320 ;; doc-string must be printed specially for
321 ;; make-docfile (sigh).
322 (let* ((p (nthcdr (1- doc-string-elt
) form
))
326 (let ((print-escape-newlines t
)
328 (print-escape-nonascii t
))
332 (princ "\"\\\n" outbuf
)
333 (let ((begin (with-current-buffer outbuf
(point))))
334 (princ (substring (prin1-to-string (car elt
)) 1)
336 ;; Insert a backslash before each ( that
337 ;; appears at the beginning of a line in
339 (with-current-buffer outbuf
341 (while (re-search-backward "\n[[(]" begin t
)
347 (princ (substring (prin1-to-string (cdr elt
)) 1)
350 (let ((print-escape-newlines t
)
352 (print-escape-nonascii t
))
353 (print form outbuf
)))))))
355 (defun autoload-rubric (file &optional type feature
)
356 "Return a string giving the appropriate autoload rubric for FILE.
357 TYPE (default \"autoloads\") is a string stating the type of
358 information contained in FILE. TYPE \"package\" acts like the default,
359 but adds an extra line to the output to modify `load-path'.
361 If FEATURE is non-nil, FILE will provide a feature. FEATURE may
362 be a string naming the feature, otherwise it will be based on
364 (let ((basename (file-name-nondirectory file
))
365 (lp (if (equal type
"package") (setq type
"autoloads"))))
366 (concat ";;; " basename
367 " --- automatically extracted " (or type
"autoloads") "\n"
371 ;; `load-path' should contain only directory names.
372 "(add-to-list 'load-path (directory-file-name
373 (or (file-name-directory #$) (car load-path))))\n\n")
375 ;; This is used outside of autoload.el, eg cus-dep, finder.
377 (format "(provide '%s)\n"
378 (if (stringp feature
) feature
379 (file-name-sans-extension basename
))))
380 ";; Local Variables:\n"
381 ";; version-control: never\n"
382 ";; no-byte-compile: t\n"
383 ";; no-update-autoloads: t\n"
389 (defvar autoload-ensure-writable nil
390 "Non-nil means `autoload-find-generated-file' makes existing file writable.")
391 ;; Just in case someone tries to get you to overwrite a file that you
394 (put 'autoload-ensure-writable
'risky-local-variable t
)
396 (defun autoload-ensure-file-writeable (file)
397 ;; Probably pointless, but replaces the old AUTOGEN_VCS in lisp/Makefile,
398 ;; which was designed to handle CVSREAD=1 and equivalent.
399 (and autoload-ensure-writable
401 (let ((modes (file-modes file
)))
402 (if (zerop (logand modes
#o0200
))
403 ;; Ignore any errors here, and let subsequent attempts
404 ;; to write the file raise any real error.
405 (ignore-errors (set-file-modes file
(logior modes
#o0200
))))))
408 (defun autoload-insert-section-header (outbuf autoloads load-name file time
)
409 "Insert the section-header line,
410 which lists the file name and which functions are in it, etc."
411 ;; (cl-assert ;Make sure we don't insert it in the middle of another section.
413 ;; (or (not (re-search-backward
415 ;; (regexp-quote generate-autoload-section-header)
417 ;; (regexp-quote generate-autoload-section-trailer)
421 (insert generate-autoload-section-header
)
422 (prin1 `(autoloads ,autoloads
,load-name
,file
,time
)
425 ;; Break that line at spaces, to avoid very long lines.
426 ;; Make each sub-line into a comment.
427 (with-current-buffer outbuf
432 (skip-chars-forward "^ \n")
434 (insert "\n" generate-autoload-section-continuation
))))))
436 (defun autoload-find-file (file)
437 "Fetch file and put it in a temp buffer. Return the buffer."
438 ;; It is faster to avoid visiting the file.
439 (setq file
(expand-file-name file
))
440 (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create " *autoload-file*")
441 (kill-all-local-variables)
443 (setq buffer-undo-list t
444 buffer-read-only nil
)
445 (delay-mode-hooks (emacs-lisp-mode))
446 (setq default-directory
(file-name-directory file
))
447 (insert-file-contents file nil
)
448 (let ((enable-local-variables :safe
)
449 (enable-local-eval nil
))
450 (hack-local-variables))
453 (defvar no-update-autoloads nil
454 "File local variable to prevent scanning this file for autoload cookies.")
456 (defun autoload-file-load-name (file)
457 "Compute the name that will be used to load FILE."
458 ;; OUTFILE should be the name of the global loaddefs.el file, which
459 ;; is expected to be at the root directory of the files we're
460 ;; scanning for autoloads and will be in the `load-path'.
461 (let* ((outfile (default-value 'generated-autoload-file
))
462 (name (file-relative-name file
(file-name-directory outfile
)))
464 (dir (file-name-directory outfile
)))
465 ;; If `name' has directory components, only keep the
466 ;; last few that are really needed.
468 (setq name
(directory-file-name name
))
469 (push (file-name-nondirectory name
) names
)
470 (setq name
(file-name-directory name
)))
473 ((null (cdr names
)) (setq name
(car names
)))
474 ((file-exists-p (expand-file-name "subdirs.el" dir
))
475 ;; FIXME: here we only check the existence of subdirs.el,
476 ;; without checking its content. This makes it generate wrong load
477 ;; names for cases like lisp/term which is not added to load-path.
478 (setq dir
(expand-file-name (pop names
) dir
)))
479 (t (setq name
(mapconcat #'identity names
"/")))))
480 (if (string-match "\\.elc?\\(\\.\\|\\'\\)" name
)
481 (substring name
0 (match-beginning 0))
484 (defun generate-file-autoloads (file)
485 "Insert at point a loaddefs autoload section for FILE.
486 Autoloads are generated for defuns and defmacros in FILE
487 marked by `generate-autoload-cookie' (which see).
488 If FILE is being visited in a buffer, the contents of the buffer
490 Return non-nil in the case where no autoloads were added at point."
491 (interactive "fGenerate autoloads for file: ")
492 (let ((generated-autoload-file buffer-file-name
))
493 (autoload-generate-file-autoloads file
(current-buffer))))
495 (defvar autoload-compute-prefixes t
496 "If non-nil, autoload will add code to register the prefixes used in a file.
497 Standard prefixes won't be registered anyway. I.e. if a file \"foo.el\" defines
498 variables or functions that use \"foo-\" as prefix, that will not be registered.
499 But all other prefixes will be included.")
501 (defconst autoload-def-prefixes-max-entries
5
502 "Target length of the list of definition prefixes per file.
503 If set too small, the prefixes will be too generic (i.e. they'll use little
504 memory, we'll end up looking in too many files when we need a particular
505 prefix), and if set too large, they will be too specific (i.e. they will
506 cost more memory use).")
508 (defconst autoload-def-prefixes-max-length
12
509 "Target size of definition prefixes.
510 Don't try to split prefixes that are already longer than that.")
512 (require 'radix-tree
)
514 (defun autoload--make-defs-autoload (defs file
)
516 ;; Remove the defs that obey the rule that file foo.el (or
517 ;; foo-mode.el) uses "foo-" as prefix.
518 ;; FIXME: help--symbol-completion-table still doesn't know how to use
519 ;; the rule that file foo.el (or foo-mode.el) uses "foo-" as prefix.
521 ;; (concat (substring file 0 (string-match "-mode\\'" file)) "-")))
522 ;; (dolist (def (prog1 defs (setq defs nil)))
523 ;; (unless (string-prefix-p prefix def)
524 ;; (push def defs))))
526 ;; Then compute a small set of prefixes that cover all the
527 ;; remaining definitions.
528 (let* ((tree (let ((tree radix-tree-empty
))
530 (setq tree
(radix-tree-insert tree def t
)))
533 ;; Get the root prefixes, that we should include in any case.
534 (radix-tree-iter-subtrees
535 tree
(lambda (prefix subtree
)
536 (push (cons prefix subtree
) prefixes
)))
537 ;; In some cases, the root prefixes are too short, e.g. if you define
538 ;; "cc-helper" and "c-mode", you'll get "c" in the root prefixes.
539 (dolist (pair (prog1 prefixes
(setq prefixes nil
)))
540 (let ((s (car pair
)))
541 (if (or (and (> (length s
) 2) ; Long enough!
542 ;; But don't use "def" from deffoo-pkg-thing.
543 (not (string= "def" s
)))
544 (string-match ".[[:punct:]]\\'" s
) ;A real (tho short) prefix?
545 (radix-tree-lookup (cdr pair
) "")) ;Nothing to expand!
546 (push pair prefixes
) ;Keep it as is.
547 (radix-tree-iter-subtrees
548 (cdr pair
) (lambda (prefix subtree
)
549 (push (cons (concat s prefix
) subtree
) prefixes
))))))
550 ;; FIXME: The expansions done below are mostly pointless, such as
551 ;; for `yenc', where we replace "yenc-" with an exhaustive list (5
554 ;; (let ((newprefixes nil)
556 ;; (dolist (pair prefixes)
557 ;; (let ((prefix (car pair)))
558 ;; (if (or (> (length prefix) autoload-def-prefixes-max-length)
559 ;; (radix-tree-lookup (cdr pair) ""))
560 ;; ;; No point splitting it any further.
561 ;; (push pair newprefixes)
563 ;; (radix-tree-iter-subtrees
564 ;; (cdr pair) (lambda (sprefix subtree)
565 ;; (push (cons (concat prefix sprefix) subtree)
568 ;; (<= (length newprefixes)
569 ;; autoload-def-prefixes-max-entries)
572 ;; (dolist (pair prefixes)
573 ;; (unless (memq pair newprefixes) ;Not old
575 ;; (dolist (pair newprefixes)
576 ;; (unless (memq pair prefixes) ;Not new
579 ;; (message "Expanding %S to %S"
580 ;; (mapcar #'car old) (mapcar #'car new))
582 ;; (setq prefixes newprefixes)
583 ;; (< (length prefixes) autoload-def-prefixes-max-entries))))
585 ;; (message "Final prefixes %s : %S" file (mapcar #'car prefixes))
590 (let ((prefix (car x
)))
591 (if (or (> (length prefix
) 2) ;Long enough!
592 (and (eq (length prefix
) 2)
593 (string-match "[[:punct:]]" prefix
)))
595 ;; Some packages really don't follow the rules.
596 ;; Drop the most egregious cases such as the
597 ;; one-letter prefixes.
599 (radix-tree-iter-mappings
600 (cdr x
) (lambda (s _
)
601 (push (concat prefix s
) dropped
)))
602 (message "Not registering prefix \"%s\" from %s. Affects: %S"
606 `(if (fboundp 'register-definition-prefixes
)
607 (register-definition-prefixes ,file
',(delq nil strings
)))))))
609 (defun autoload--setup-output (otherbuf outbuf absfile load-name
)
612 ;; A file-local setting of
613 ;; autoload-generated-file says we
614 ;; should ignore OUTBUF.
617 (autoload-find-destination absfile load-name
)
618 ;; The file has autoload cookies, but they're
619 ;; already up-to-date. If OUTFILE is nil, the
620 ;; entries are in the expected OUTBUF,
621 ;; otherwise they're elsewhere.
622 (throw 'done otherbuf
))))
623 (with-current-buffer outbuf
626 (defun autoload--print-cookie-text (output-start load-name file
)
627 (let ((standard-output (marker-buffer output-start
)))
628 (search-forward generate-autoload-cookie
)
629 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
631 (condition-case-unless-debug err
632 ;; Read the next form and make an autoload.
633 (let* ((form (prog1 (read (current-buffer))
634 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))))
635 (autoload (make-autoload form load-name
)))
638 (setq autoload form
))
639 (let ((autoload-print-form-outbuf
641 (autoload-print-form autoload
)))
643 (message "Autoload cookie error in %s:%s %S"
644 file
(count-lines (point-min) (point)) err
)))
646 ;; Copy the rest of the line to the output.
647 (princ (buffer-substring
649 ;; Back up over whitespace, to preserve it.
650 (skip-chars-backward " \f\t")
651 (if (= (char-after (1+ (point))) ?
)
655 (progn (forward-line 1) (point)))))))
657 (defvar autoload-builtin-package-versions nil
)
659 ;; When called from `generate-file-autoloads' we should ignore
660 ;; `generated-autoload-file' altogether. When called from
661 ;; `update-file-autoloads' we don't know `outbuf'. And when called from
662 ;; `update-directory-autoloads' it's in between: we know the default
663 ;; `outbuf' but we should obey any file-local setting of
664 ;; `generated-autoload-file'.
665 (defun autoload-generate-file-autoloads (file &optional outbuf outfile
)
666 "Insert an autoload section for FILE in the appropriate buffer.
667 Autoloads are generated for defuns and defmacros in FILE
668 marked by `generate-autoload-cookie' (which see).
669 If FILE is being visited in a buffer, the contents of the buffer are used.
670 OUTBUF is the buffer in which the autoload statements should be inserted.
671 If OUTBUF is nil, it will be determined by `autoload-generated-file'.
673 If provided, OUTFILE is expected to be the file name of OUTBUF.
674 If OUTFILE is non-nil and FILE specifies a `generated-autoload-file'
675 different from OUTFILE, then OUTBUF is ignored.
677 Return non-nil if and only if FILE adds no autoloads to OUTFILE
678 \(or OUTBUF if OUTFILE is nil). The actual return value is
679 FILE's modification time."
680 ;; Include the file name in any error messages
685 (float-output-format nil
)
686 (visited (get-file-buffer file
))
688 (absfile (expand-file-name file
))
690 ;; nil until we found a cookie.
694 (with-current-buffer (or visited
695 ;; It is faster to avoid visiting the file.
696 (autoload-find-file file
))
697 ;; Obey the no-update-autoloads file local variable.
698 (unless no-update-autoloads
699 (or noninteractive
(message "Generating autoloads for %s..." file
))
701 (if (stringp generated-autoload-load-name
)
702 generated-autoload-load-name
703 (autoload-file-load-name absfile
)))
704 ;; FIXME? Comparing file-names for equality with just equal
705 ;; is fragile, eg if one has an automounter prefix and one
706 ;; does not, but both refer to the same physical file.
709 (if (memq system-type
'(ms-dos windows-nt
))
710 (equal (downcase outfile
)
711 (downcase (autoload-generated-file)))
712 (equal outfile
(autoload-generated-file)))))
717 (when autoload-builtin-package-versions
718 (let ((version (lm-header "version"))
721 (setq version
(ignore-errors (version-to-list version
)))
722 (setq package
(or (lm-header "package")
723 (file-name-sans-extension
724 (file-name-nondirectory file
))))
725 (setq output-start
(autoload--setup-output
726 otherbuf outbuf absfile load-name
))
727 (let ((standard-output (marker-buffer output-start
))
729 (princ `(push (purecopy
730 ',(cons (intern package
) version
))
731 package--builtin-versions
))
734 ;; Do not insert autoload entries for excluded files.
735 (unless (member absfile autoload-excludes
)
736 (goto-char (point-min))
738 (skip-chars-forward " \t\n\f")
740 ((looking-at (regexp-quote generate-autoload-cookie
))
741 ;; If not done yet, figure out where to insert this text.
743 (setq output-start
(autoload--setup-output
744 otherbuf outbuf absfile load-name
)))
745 (autoload--print-cookie-text output-start load-name file
))
746 ((= (following-char) ?\
;)
747 ;; Don't read the comment.
750 ;; Avoid (defvar <foo>) by requiring a trailing space.
751 ;; Also, ignore this prefix business
752 ;; for ;;;###tramp-autoload and friends.
753 (when (and (equal generate-autoload-cookie
";;;###autoload")
754 (looking-at "(\\(def[^ ]+\\) ['(]*\\([^' ()\"\n]+\\)[\n \t]")
757 '("define-obsolete-function-alias"
758 "define-obsolete-variable-alias"
759 "define-category" "define-key"
760 "defgroup" "defface" "defadvice"
762 ;; Hmm... this is getting ugly:
764 "define-erc-response-handler"
765 "defun-rcirc-command"))))
766 (push (match-string 2) defs
))
768 (forward-line 1)))))))
770 (when (and autoload-compute-prefixes defs
)
771 ;; This output needs to always go in the main loaddefs.el,
772 ;; regardless of generated-autoload-file.
773 ;; FIXME: the files that don't have autoload cookies but
774 ;; do have definitions end up listed twice in loaddefs.el:
775 ;; once for their register-definition-prefixes and once in
776 ;; the list of "files without any autoloads".
777 (let ((form (autoload--make-defs-autoload defs load-name
)))
779 ((null form
)) ;All defs obey the default rule, yay!
782 (setq output-start
(autoload--setup-output
783 nil outbuf absfile load-name
)))
784 (let ((autoload-print-form-outbuf
785 (marker-buffer output-start
)))
786 (autoload-print-form form
)))
788 (let* ((other-output-start
789 ;; To force the output to go to the main loaddefs.el
790 ;; rather than to generated-autoload-file,
791 ;; there are two cases: if outbuf is non-nil,
792 ;; then passing otherbuf=nil is enough, but if
793 ;; outbuf is nil, that won't cut it, so we
794 ;; locally bind generated-autoload-file.
795 (let ((generated-autoload-file
796 (default-value 'generated-autoload-file
)))
797 (autoload--setup-output nil outbuf absfile load-name
)))
798 (autoload-print-form-outbuf
799 (marker-buffer other-output-start
)))
800 (autoload-print-form form
)
801 (with-current-buffer (marker-buffer other-output-start
)
803 ;; Insert the section-header line which lists
804 ;; the file name and which functions are in it, etc.
805 (goto-char other-output-start
)
806 (let ((relfile (file-relative-name absfile
)))
807 (autoload-insert-section-header
808 (marker-buffer other-output-start
)
809 "actual autoloads are elsewhere" load-name relfile
810 (if autoload-timestamps
811 (nth 5 (file-attributes absfile
))
812 autoload--non-timestamp
))
813 (insert ";;; Generated autoloads from " relfile
"\n")))
814 (insert generate-autoload-section-trailer
)))))))
817 (let ((secondary-autoloads-file-buf
818 (if otherbuf
(current-buffer))))
819 (with-current-buffer (marker-buffer output-start
)
820 (cl-assert (> (point) output-start
))
822 ;; Insert the section-header line which lists the file name
823 ;; and which functions are in it, etc.
824 (goto-char output-start
)
825 (let ((relfile (file-relative-name absfile
)))
826 (autoload-insert-section-header
827 (marker-buffer output-start
)
829 (if secondary-autoloads-file-buf
830 ;; MD5 checksums are much better because they do not
831 ;; change unless the file changes (so they'll be
832 ;; equal on two different systems and will change
833 ;; less often than time-stamps, thus leading to fewer
834 ;; unneeded changes causing spurious conflicts), but
835 ;; using time-stamps is a very useful optimization,
836 ;; so we use time-stamps for the main autoloads file
837 ;; (loaddefs.el) where we have special ways to
838 ;; circumvent the "random change problem", and MD5
839 ;; checksum in secondary autoload files where we do
840 ;; not need the time-stamp optimization because it is
841 ;; already provided by the primary autoloads file.
842 (md5 secondary-autoloads-file-buf
843 ;; We'd really want to just use
844 ;; `emacs-internal' instead.
845 nil nil
'emacs-mule-unix
)
846 (if autoload-timestamps
847 (nth 5 (file-attributes relfile
))
848 autoload--non-timestamp
)))
849 (insert ";;; Generated autoloads from " relfile
"\n")))
850 (insert generate-autoload-section-trailer
))))
852 (message "Generating autoloads for %s...done" file
)))
854 ;; We created this buffer, so we should kill it.
855 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
856 (or (not output-start
)
857 ;; If the entries were added to some other buffer, then the file
858 ;; doesn't add entries to OUTFILE.
860 (nth 5 (file-attributes absfile
))))
862 ;; Probably unbalanced parens in forward-sexp. In that case, the
863 ;; condition is scan-error, and the signal data includes point
864 ;; where the error was found; we'd like to convert that to
865 ;; line:col, but line-number-at-pos gets the wrong line in batch
866 ;; mode for some reason.
868 ;; At least this gets the file name in the error message; the
869 ;; developer can use goto-char to get to the error position.
870 (error "%s:0:0: error: %s: %s" file
(car err
) (cdr err
)))
873 ;; For parallel builds, to stop another process reading a half-written file.
874 (defun autoload--save-buffer ()
875 "Save current buffer to its file, atomically."
876 ;; Similar to byte-compile-file.
877 (let* ((version-control 'never
)
878 (tempfile (make-temp-file buffer-file-name
))
879 (default-modes (default-file-modes))
880 (temp-modes (logand default-modes
#o600
))
881 (desired-modes (logand default-modes
882 (or (file-modes buffer-file-name
) #o666
)))
884 (cons (lambda () (ignore-errors (delete-file tempfile
)))
886 (unless (= temp-modes desired-modes
)
887 (set-file-modes tempfile desired-modes
))
888 (write-region (point-min) (point-max) tempfile nil
1)
890 (rename-file tempfile buffer-file-name t
))
891 (set-buffer-modified-p nil
)
892 (set-visited-file-modtime)
893 (or noninteractive
(message "Wrote %s" buffer-file-name
)))
895 (defun autoload-save-buffers ()
896 (while autoload-modified-buffers
897 (with-current-buffer (pop autoload-modified-buffers
)
898 (autoload--save-buffer))))
900 ;; FIXME This command should be deprecated.
901 ;; See https://debbugs.gnu.org/22213#41
903 (defun update-file-autoloads (file &optional save-after outfile
)
904 "Update the autoloads for FILE.
905 If prefix arg SAVE-AFTER is non-nil, save the buffer too.
907 If FILE binds `generated-autoload-file' as a file-local variable,
908 autoloads are written into that file. Otherwise, the autoloads
909 file is determined by OUTFILE. If called interactively, prompt
910 for OUTFILE; if called from Lisp with OUTFILE nil, use the
911 existing value of `generated-autoload-file'.
913 Return FILE if there was no autoload cookie in it, else nil."
914 (interactive (list (read-file-name "Update autoloads for file: ")
916 (read-file-name "Write autoload definitions to file: ")))
917 (let* ((generated-autoload-file (or outfile generated-autoload-file
))
918 (autoload-modified-buffers nil
)
919 ;; We need this only if the output file handles more than one input.
920 ;; See https://debbugs.gnu.org/22213#38 and subsequent.
921 (autoload-timestamps t
)
922 (no-autoloads (autoload-generate-file-autoloads file
)))
923 (if autoload-modified-buffers
924 (if save-after
(autoload-save-buffers))
925 (if (called-interactively-p 'interactive
)
926 (message "Autoload section for %s is up to date." file
)))
927 (if no-autoloads file
)))
929 (defun autoload-find-destination (file load-name
)
930 "Find the destination point of the current buffer's autoloads.
931 FILE is the file name of the current buffer.
932 LOAD-NAME is the name as it appears in the output.
933 Returns a buffer whose point is placed at the requested location.
934 Returns nil if the file's autoloads are up-to-date, otherwise
935 removes any prior now out-of-date autoload entries."
937 (let* ((buf (current-buffer))
938 (existing-buffer (if buffer-file-name buf
))
939 (output-file (autoload-generated-file))
940 (output-time (if (file-exists-p output-file
)
941 (nth 5 (file-attributes output-file
))))
943 (with-current-buffer (autoload-find-generated-file)
944 ;; This is to make generated-autoload-file have Unix EOLs, so
945 ;; that it is portable to all platforms.
946 (or (eq 0 (coding-system-eol-type buffer-file-coding-system
))
947 (set-buffer-file-coding-system 'unix
))
948 (or (> (buffer-size) 0)
949 (error "Autoloads file %s lacks boilerplate" buffer-file-name
))
950 (or (file-writable-p buffer-file-name
)
951 (error "Autoloads file %s is not writable" buffer-file-name
))
953 (goto-char (point-min))
954 ;; Look for the section for LOAD-NAME.
955 (while (and (not found
)
956 (search-forward generate-autoload-section-header nil t
))
957 (let ((form (autoload-read-section-header)))
958 (cond ((string= (nth 2 form
) load-name
)
959 ;; We found the section for this file.
960 ;; Check if it is up to date.
961 (let ((begin (match-beginning 0))
962 (last-time (nth 4 form
))
963 (file-time (nth 5 (file-attributes file
))))
964 (if (and (or (null existing-buffer
)
965 (not (buffer-modified-p existing-buffer
)))
967 ;; FIXME? Arguably we should throw a
968 ;; user error, or some kind of warning,
969 ;; if we were called from update-file-autoloads,
970 ;; which can update only a single input file.
971 ;; It's not appropriate to use the output
972 ;; file modtime in such a case,
973 ;; if there are multiple input files
974 ;; contributing to the output.
977 (list t autoload--non-timestamp
)))
978 (not (time-less-p output-time file-time
)))
979 ;; last-time is the time-stamp (specifying
980 ;; the last time we looked at the file) and
981 ;; the file hasn't been changed since.
983 (not (time-less-p last-time file-time
)))
984 ;; last-time is an MD5 checksum instead.
987 (md5 buf nil nil
'emacs-mule
)))))
988 (throw 'up-to-date nil
)
989 (autoload-remove-section begin
)
991 ((string< load-name
(nth 2 form
))
992 ;; We've come to a section alphabetically later than
993 ;; LOAD-NAME. We assume the file is in order and so
994 ;; there must be no section for LOAD-NAME. We will
995 ;; insert one before the section here.
996 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
1000 ;; No later sections in the file. Put before the last page.
1001 (goto-char (point-max))
1002 (search-backward "\f" nil t
)))
1003 (unless (memq (current-buffer) autoload-modified-buffers
)
1004 (push (current-buffer) autoload-modified-buffers
))
1005 (current-buffer)))))
1007 (defun autoload-remove-section (begin)
1009 (search-forward generate-autoload-section-trailer
)
1010 (delete-region begin
(point)))
1013 (defun update-directory-autoloads (&rest dirs
)
1014 "Update autoload definitions for Lisp files in the directories DIRS.
1015 In an interactive call, you must give one argument, the name of a
1016 single directory. In a call from Lisp, you can supply multiple
1017 directories as separate arguments, but this usage is discouraged.
1019 The function does NOT recursively descend into subdirectories of the
1020 directory or directories specified.
1022 In an interactive call, prompt for a default output file for the
1023 autoload definitions, and temporarily bind the variable
1024 `generated-autoload-file' to this value. When called from Lisp,
1025 use the existing value of `generated-autoload-file'. If any Lisp
1026 file binds `generated-autoload-file' as a file-local variable,
1027 write its autoloads into the specified file instead."
1028 (interactive "DUpdate autoloads from directory: ")
1029 (let* ((files-re (let ((tmp nil
))
1030 (dolist (suf (get-load-suffixes))
1031 ;; We don't use module-file-suffix below because
1032 ;; we don't want to depend on whether Emacs was
1033 ;; built with or without modules support, nor
1034 ;; what is the suffix for the underlying OS.
1035 (unless (string-match "\\.\\(elc\\|\\so\\|dll\\)" suf
)
1037 (concat "^[^=.].*" (regexp-opt tmp t
) "\\'")))
1038 (files (apply #'nconc
1039 (mapcar (lambda (dir)
1040 (directory-files (expand-file-name dir
)
1043 (done ()) ;Files processed; to remove duplicates.
1044 (changed nil
) ;Non-nil if some change occurred.
1046 ;; Files with no autoload cookies or whose autoloads go to other
1047 ;; files because of file-local autoload-generated-file settings.
1049 (autoload-modified-buffers nil
)
1050 (generated-autoload-file
1051 (if (called-interactively-p 'interactive
)
1052 (read-file-name "Write autoload definitions to file: ")
1053 generated-autoload-file
))
1055 (if (file-exists-p generated-autoload-file
)
1056 (nth 5 (file-attributes generated-autoload-file
)))))
1058 (with-current-buffer (autoload-find-generated-file)
1060 ;; Canonicalize file names and remove the autoload file itself.
1061 (setq files
(delete (file-relative-name buffer-file-name
)
1062 (mapcar #'file-relative-name files
)))
1064 (goto-char (point-min))
1065 (while (search-forward generate-autoload-section-header nil t
)
1066 (let* ((form (autoload-read-section-header))
1067 (file (nth 3 form
)))
1068 (cond ((and (consp file
) (stringp (car file
)))
1069 ;; This is a list of files that have no autoload cookies.
1070 ;; There shouldn't be more than one such entry.
1071 ;; Remove the obsolete section.
1072 (autoload-remove-section (match-beginning 0))
1073 (setq last-time
(nth 4 form
))
1074 (if (member last-time
(list t autoload--non-timestamp
))
1075 (setq last-time output-time
))
1077 (let ((file-time (nth 5 (file-attributes file
))))
1078 (when (and file-time
1079 (not (time-less-p last-time file-time
)))
1081 (push file no-autoloads
)
1082 (setq files
(delete file files
))))))
1083 ((not (stringp file
)))
1084 ((or (not (file-exists-p file
))
1085 ;; Remove duplicates as well, just in case.
1087 ;; Remove the obsolete section.
1089 (autoload-remove-section (match-beginning 0)))
1090 ((not (time-less-p (let ((oldtime (nth 4 form
)))
1093 t autoload--non-timestamp
))
1096 (nth 5 (file-attributes file
))))
1097 ;; File hasn't changed.
1101 (autoload-remove-section (match-beginning 0))
1102 (if (autoload-generate-file-autoloads
1103 ;; Passing `current-buffer' makes it insert at point.
1104 file
(current-buffer) buffer-file-name
)
1105 (push file no-autoloads
))))
1107 (setq files
(delete file files
)))))
1108 ;; Elements remaining in FILES have no existing autoload sections yet.
1109 (let ((no-autoloads-time (or last-time
'(0 0 0 0))) file-time
)
1110 (dolist (file files
)
1112 ;; Passing nil as second argument forces
1113 ;; autoload-generate-file-autoloads to look for the right
1114 ;; spot where to insert each autoloads section.
1116 (autoload-generate-file-autoloads file nil buffer-file-name
))
1117 (push file no-autoloads
)
1118 (if (time-less-p no-autoloads-time file-time
)
1119 (setq no-autoloads-time file-time
)))
1120 (t (setq changed t
))))
1123 ;; Sort them for better readability.
1124 (setq no-autoloads
(sort no-autoloads
'string
<))
1125 ;; Add the `no-autoloads' section.
1126 (goto-char (point-max))
1127 (search-backward "\f" nil t
)
1128 (autoload-insert-section-header
1129 (current-buffer) nil nil no-autoloads
(if autoload-timestamps
1131 autoload--non-timestamp
))
1132 (insert generate-autoload-section-trailer
)))
1134 ;; Don't modify the file if its content has not been changed, so `make'
1135 ;; dependencies don't trigger unnecessarily.
1137 (set-buffer-modified-p nil
)
1138 (autoload--save-buffer))
1140 ;; In case autoload entries were added to other files because of
1141 ;; file-local autoload-generated-file settings.
1142 (autoload-save-buffers))))
1144 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'update-autoloads-from-directories
1145 'update-directory-autoloads
"22.1")
1148 (defun batch-update-autoloads ()
1149 "Update loaddefs.el autoloads in batch mode.
1150 Calls `update-directory-autoloads' on the command line arguments.
1151 Definitions are written to `generated-autoload-file' (which
1152 should be non-nil)."
1153 ;; For use during the Emacs build process only.
1154 ;; Exclude those files that are preloaded on ALL platforms.
1155 ;; These are the ones in loadup.el where "(load" is at the start
1156 ;; of the line (crude, but it works).
1157 (unless autoload-excludes
1158 (let ((default-directory (file-name-directory generated-autoload-file
))
1160 (when (file-readable-p "loadup.el")
1162 (insert-file-contents "loadup.el")
1163 (while (re-search-forward "^(load \"\\([^\"]+\\)\"" nil t
)
1164 (setq file
(match-string 1))
1165 (or (string-match "\\.el\\'" file
)
1166 (setq file
(format "%s.el" file
)))
1167 (or (string-match "\\`site-" file
)
1168 (push (expand-file-name file
) autoload-excludes
)))))))
1169 (let ((args command-line-args-left
))
1170 (setq command-line-args-left nil
)
1171 (apply #'update-directory-autoloads args
)))
1175 ;;; autoload.el ends here