1 ;;; emacsbug.el --- command to report Emacs bugs to appropriate mailing list.
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: K. Shane Hartman
7 ;; Keywords: maint mail
9 ;; Not fully installed because it can work only on Internet hosts.
10 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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24 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
25 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
29 ;; `M-x report-emacs-bug ' starts an email note to the Emacs maintainers
30 ;; describing a problem. Here's how it's done...
34 ;; >> This should be an address which is accessible to your machine,
35 ;; >> otherwise you can't use this file. It will only work on the
36 ;; >> internet with this address.
40 (defgroup emacsbug nil
41 "Sending Emacs bug reports."
45 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-address
"bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org"
46 "*Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs bugs."
50 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-pretest-address
"emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org"
51 "*Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs pretest bugs."
55 (defvar report-emacs-bug-orig-text nil
56 "The automatically-created initial text of bug report.")
58 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation nil
59 "*If non-nil, suppress the confirmations asked for the sake of novice users."
63 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-explanations nil
64 "*If non-nil, suppress the explanations given for the sake of novice users."
69 (defun report-emacs-bug (topic &optional recent-keys
)
70 "Report a bug in GNU Emacs.
71 Prompts for bug subject. Leaves you in a mail buffer."
72 ;; This strange form ensures that (recent-keys) is the value before
73 ;; the bug subject string is read.
74 (interactive (reverse (list (recent-keys) (read-string "Bug Subject: "))))
75 (let (user-point message-end-point
)
76 (setq message-end-point
77 (with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Messages*")
79 (compose-mail (if (string-match "\\..*\\..*\\." emacs-version
)
80 ;; If there are four numbers in emacs-version,
81 ;; this is a pretest version.
82 report-emacs-bug-pretest-address
83 report-emacs-bug-address
)
85 ;; The rest of this does not execute
86 ;; if the user was asked to confirm and said no.
90 (let ((signature (buffer-substring (point) (point-max))))
91 ;; Discourage users to write non-English text.
92 (set-buffer-multibyte nil
)
93 (delete-region (point) (point-max))
95 (backward-char (length signature
)))
96 (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
97 ;; Insert warnings for novice users.
98 (insert "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,\n")
100 (insert "not to your local site managers!")
101 (put-text-property pos
(point) 'face
'highlight
))
102 (insert "\nPlease write in ")
105 (put-text-property pos
(point) 'face
'highlight
))
106 (insert ", because the Emacs maintainers do not have
107 translators to read other languages for them.\n\n"))
109 (insert "In " (emacs-version) "\n")
110 (if (and system-configuration-options
111 (not (equal system-configuration-options
"")))
112 (insert "configured using `configure "
113 system-configuration-options
"'\n"))
115 (insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n"
116 "and the precise symptoms of the bug:\n\n")
117 (setq user-point
(point))
120 (let ((before-keys (point)))
121 (insert (mapconcat (lambda (key)
122 (if (or (integerp key
)
125 (single-key-description key
)
126 (prin1-to-string key nil
)))
127 (or recent-keys
(recent-keys))
130 (narrow-to-region before-keys
(point))
131 (goto-char before-keys
)
132 (while (progn (move-to-column 50) (not (eobp)))
133 (search-forward " " nil t
)
135 (let ((message-buf (get-buffer "*Messages*")))
138 (end-pos message-end-point
))
139 (with-current-buffer message-buf
142 (setq beg-pos
(point)))
143 (insert "\n\nRecent messages:\n")
144 (insert-buffer-substring message-buf beg-pos end-pos
))))
145 ;; This is so the user has to type something
146 ;; in order to send easily.
147 (use-local-map (nconc (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map)))
148 (define-key (current-local-map) "\C-c\C-i" 'report-emacs-bug-info
)
149 (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
150 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
151 (if (eq mail-user-agent
'sendmail-user-agent
)
152 (princ (substitute-command-keys
153 "Type \\[mail-send-and-exit] to send the bug report.\n")))
154 (princ (substitute-command-keys
155 "Type \\[kill-buffer] RET to cancel (don't send it).\n"))
157 (princ (substitute-command-keys
158 "Type \\[report-emacs-bug-info] to visit in Info the Emacs Manual section
159 about when and how to write a bug report,
160 and what information to supply so that the bug can be fixed.
161 Type SPC to scroll through this section and its subsections."))))
162 ;; Make it less likely people will send empty messages.
163 (make-local-variable 'mail-send-hook
)
164 (add-hook 'mail-send-hook
'report-emacs-bug-hook
)
166 (goto-char (point-max))
167 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
168 (make-local-variable 'report-emacs-bug-orig-text
)
169 (setq report-emacs-bug-orig-text
(buffer-substring (point-min) (point))))
170 (goto-char user-point
)))
172 (defun report-emacs-bug-info ()
173 "Go to the Info node on reporting Emacs bugs."
178 (Info-goto-node "Bugs"))
180 (defun report-emacs-bug-hook ()
182 (goto-char (point-max))
183 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
184 (if (and (= (- (point) (point-min))
185 (length report-emacs-bug-orig-text
))
186 (equal (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))
187 report-emacs-bug-orig-text
))
188 (error "No text entered in bug report"))
190 ;; Check the buffer contents and reject non-English letters.
192 (goto-char (point-min))
193 (skip-chars-forward "\0-\177")
195 (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation
196 (y-or-n-p "Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? "))
197 (while (progn (skip-chars-forward "\0-\177")
199 (let ((ch (following-char)))
201 (insert (format "=%02x" ch
)))))))
203 ;; The last warning for novice users.
204 (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation
206 "Send this bug report to the Emacs maintainers? "))
207 ;; Just send the current mail.
209 (goto-char (point-min))
210 (if (search-forward "To: ")
213 (delete-region pos
(point))))
214 (kill-local-variable 'mail-send-hook
)
215 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
216 (princ (substitute-command-keys "\
217 You invoked the command M-x report-emacs-bug,
218 but you decided not to mail the bug report to the Emacs maintainers.
220 If you want to mail it to someone else instead,
221 please insert the proper e-mail address after \"To: \",
222 and send the mail again using \\[mail-send-and-exit].")))
223 (error "M-x report-emacs-bug was cancelled, please read *Bug Help* buffer"))
228 ;;; emacsbug.el ends here