lisp/saveplace.el

   1 ;;; saveplace.el --- automatically save place in files.
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4
   5 ;; Author: Karl Fogel <kfogel@cs.oberlin.edu>
   6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   7 ;; Created: July, 1993
   8 ;; Version: 1.2
   9 ;; Keywords: bookmarks, placeholders
  10
  11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  12
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  26
  27 ;; Automatically save place in files, so that visiting them later
  28 ;; (even during a different Emacs session) automatically moves point
  29 ;; to the saved position, when the file is first found.  Uses the
  30 ;; value of buffer-local variable save-place to determine whether to
  31 ;; save position or not.
  32 ;;
  33 ;; Thanks to Stefan Schoef, who sent a patch with the
  34 ;; `save-place-version-control' stuff in it.
  35
  36 ;; this is what I was using during testing:
  37 ;; (define-key ctl-x-map "p" 'toggle-save-place)
  38
  39 (defvar save-place-alist nil
  40   "Alist of saved places to go back to when revisiting files.
  41 Each element looks like (FILENAME . POSITION);
  42 visiting file FILENAME goes automatically to position POSITION
  43 rather than the beginning of the buffer.
  44 This alist is saved between Emacs sessions.")
  45
  46 (defvar save-place nil
  47   "*Non-nil means automatically save place in each file.
  48 This means when you visit a file, point goes to the last place
  49 where it was when you previously visited the same file.
  50 This variable is automatically buffer-local.
  51
  52 If you wish your place in any file to always be automatically saved,
  53 simply put this in your `~/.emacs' file:
  54
  55 \(setq-default save-place t\)")
  56
  57 (make-variable-buffer-local 'save-place)
  58
  59 (defvar save-place-file "~/.emacs-places"
  60   "*Name of the file that records `save-place-alist' value.")
  61
  62 (defvar save-place-version-control 'nospecial
  63   "*Controls whether to make numbered backups of master save-place file.
  64 It can have four values: t, nil, `never', and `nospecial'.  The first
  65 three have the same meaning that they do for the variable
  66 `version-control', and the final value `nospecial' means just use the
  67 value of `version-control'.")
  68
  69 (defvar save-place-loaded nil
  70   "Non-nil means that the `save-place-file' has been loaded.")
  71
  72 (defun toggle-save-place (&optional parg)
  73   "Toggle whether to save your place in this file between sessions.
  74 If this mode is enabled, point is recorded when you kill the buffer
  75 or exit Emacs.  Visiting this file again will go to that position,
  76 even in a later Emacs session.
  77
  78 If called with a prefix arg, the mode is enabled if and only if
  79 the argument is positive.
  80
  81 To save places automatically in all files, put this in your `.emacs' file:
  82
  83 \(setq-default save-place t\)"
  84   (interactive "P")
  85   (if (not buffer-file-name)
  86       (message
  87        (format "Buffer \"%s\" not visiting a file." (buffer-name)))
  88     (if (and save-place (or (not parg) (<= parg 0)))
  89         (progn
  90           (message "No place will be saved in this file.")
  91           (setq save-place nil))
  92       (message "Place will be saved.")
  93       (setq save-place t))))
  94
  95 (defun save-place-to-alist ()
  96   ;; put filename and point in a cons box and then cons that onto the
  97   ;; front of the save-place-alist, if save-place is non-nil.
  98   ;; Otherwise, just delete that file from the alist.
  99   ;; first check to make sure alist has been loaded in from the master
 100   ;; file.  If not, do so, then feel free to modify the alist.  It
 101   ;; will be saved again when Emacs is killed.
 102   (or save-place-loaded (load-save-place-alist-from-file))
 103   (if buffer-file-name
 104       (progn
 105         (let ((cell (assoc buffer-file-name save-place-alist)))
 106           (if cell
 107               (setq save-place-alist (delq cell save-place-alist))))
 108         (if save-place
 109             (setq save-place-alist
 110                   (cons (cons buffer-file-name (point))
 111                         save-place-alist))))))
 112
 113 (defun save-place-alist-to-file ()
 114   (let ((file (expand-file-name save-place-file)))
 115     (save-excursion
 116       (message (format "Saving places to %s..." file))
 117       (set-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Saved Places*"))
 118       (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
 119       (if (file-readable-p file)
 120           (insert-file-contents file))
 121       (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
 122       (goto-char (point-min))
 123       (print save-place-alist (current-buffer))
 124       (let ((version-control
 125              (cond
 126               ((null save-place-version-control) nil)
 127               ((eq 'never save-place-version-control) 'never)
 128               ((eq 'nospecial save-place-version-control) version-control)
 129               (t
 130                t))))
 131         (write-file file)
 132         (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
 133         (message (format "Saving places to %s... done." file))))))
 134
 135 (defun load-save-place-alist-from-file ()
 136   (if (not save-place-loaded)
 137       (progn
 138         (setq save-place-loaded t)
 139         (let ((file (expand-file-name save-place-file)))
 140           ;; make sure that the alist does not get overwritten, and then
 141           ;; load it if it exists:
 142           (if (file-readable-p file)
 143               (save-excursion
 144                 (message (format "Loading places from %s..."
 145                                  save-place-file))
 146                 ;; don't want to use find-file because we have been
 147                 ;; adding hooks to it.
 148                 (set-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Saved Places*"))
 149                 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
 150                 (insert-file-contents file)
 151                 (goto-char (point-min))
 152                 (setq save-place-alist
 153                       (car (read-from-string
 154                             (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))))
 155                 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
 156                 (message (format "Loading places from %s... done." file))
 157                 t)
 158             t)
 159           nil))))
 160
 161 (defun save-places-to-alist ()
 162   ;; go through buffer-list, saving places to alist if save-place is
 163   ;; non-nil, deleting them from alist if it is nil.
 164   (let ((buf-list (buffer-list)))
 165     (while buf-list
 166       ;; put this into a save-excursion in case someone is counting on
 167       ;; another function in kill-emacs-hook to act on the last buffer
 168       ;; they were in:
 169       (save-excursion
 170         (set-buffer (car buf-list))
 171         ;; save-place checks buffer-file-name too, but we can avoid
 172         ;; overhead of function call by checking here too.
 173         (and buffer-file-name (save-place-to-alist))
 174         (setq buf-list (cdr buf-list))))))
 175
 176 (defun save-place-find-file-hook ()
 177   (or save-place-loaded (load-save-place-alist-from-file))
 178   (let ((cell (assoc buffer-file-name save-place-alist)))
 179     (if cell
 180         (progn
 181           (goto-char (cdr cell))
 182           ;; and make sure it will be saved again for later
 183           (setq save-place t)))))
 184
 185 (defun save-place-kill-emacs-hook ()
 186   (save-places-to-alist)
 187   (save-place-alist-to-file))
 188
 189 (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'save-place-find-file-hook t)
 190
 191 (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook 'save-place-kill-emacs-hook)
 192
 193 (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'save-place-to-alist)
 194
 195 (provide 'saveplace) ; why not...
 196
 197 ;;; saveplace.el ends here
 198