1 ;;; autoload.el --- maintain autoloads in loaddefs.el.
3 ;;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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26 (defun make-autoload (form file
)
27 "Turn FORM, a defun or defmacro, into an autoload for source file FILE.
28 Returns nil if FORM is not a defun or defmacro."
29 (let ((car (car-safe form
)))
30 (if (or (eq car
'defun
) (eq car
'defmacro
))
31 (let (name doc macrop
)
32 (setq macrop
(eq car
'defmacro
))
33 (setq form
(cdr form
))
34 (setq name
(car form
))
35 ;; Ignore the arguments.
36 (setq form
(cdr (cdr form
)))
39 (setq form
(cdr form
))
41 (list 'autoload
(list 'quote name
) file doc
42 (eq (car-safe (car form
)) 'interactive
) macrop
))
45 (defconst generate-autoload-cookie
";;;###autoload"
46 "Magic comment that tells \\[update-file-autoloads]
47 to make the following form into an autoload. This string should be
48 meaningless to Lisp (e.g., a comment).
53 \(defun function-to-be-autoloaded () ...)
55 If this string appears alone on a line, the following form will be
56 read and an autoload made for it. If there is further text on the line,
57 that text will be copied verbatim to `generated-autoload-file'.")
59 (defconst generate-autoload-section-header
"\f\n;;;### "
60 "String inserted before the form identifying
61 the section of autoloads for a file.")
63 (defconst generate-autoload-section-trailer
"\n;;;***\n"
64 "String which indicates the end of the section of autoloads for a file.")
66 ;;; Forms which have doc-strings which should be printed specially.
67 ;;; A doc-string-elt property of ELT says that (nth ELT FORM) is
68 ;;; the doc-string in FORM.
70 ;;; There used to be the following note here:
71 ;;; ;;; Note: defconst and defvar should NOT be marked in this way.
72 ;;; ;;; We don't want to produce defconsts and defvars that
73 ;;; ;;; make-docfile can grok, because then it would grok them twice,
74 ;;; ;;; once in foo.el (where they are given with ;;;###autoload) and
75 ;;; ;;; once in loaddefs.el.
77 ;;; Counter-note: Yes, they should be marked in this way.
78 ;;; make-docfile only processes those files that are loaded into the
79 ;;; dumped Emacs, and those files should never have anything
80 ;;; autoloaded here. The above-feared problem only occurs with files
81 ;;; which have autoloaded entries *and* are processed by make-docfile;
82 ;;; there should be no such files.
84 (put 'autoload
'doc-string-elt
3)
85 (put 'defun
'doc-string-elt
3)
86 (put 'defvar
'doc-string-elt
3)
87 (put 'defconst
'doc-string-elt
3)
88 (put 'defmacro
'doc-string-elt
3)
90 (defun generate-file-autoloads (file)
91 "Insert at point a loaddefs autoload section for FILE.
92 autoloads are generated for defuns and defmacros in FILE
93 marked by `generate-autoload-regexp' (which see).
94 If FILE is being visited in a buffer, the contents of the buffer
96 (interactive "fGenerate autoloads for file: ")
97 (let ((outbuf (current-buffer))
98 (inbuf (find-file-noselect file
))
100 (load-name (let ((name (file-name-nondirectory file
)))
101 (if (string-match "\\.elc?$" name
)
102 (substring name
0 (match-beginning 0))
105 (floating-output-format "%20e")
109 ;; If the autoload section we create here uses an absolute
110 ;; pathname for FILE in its header, and then Emacs is installed
111 ;; under a different path on another system,
112 ;; `update-autoloads-here' won't be able to find the files to be
113 ;; autoloaded. So, if FILE is in the same directory or a
114 ;; subdirectory of the current buffer's directory, we'll make it
115 ;; relative to the current buffer's directory.
116 (setq file
(expand-file-name file
))
117 (if (and (< (length default-directory
) (length file
))
118 (string= default-directory
119 (substring file
0 (length default-directory
))))
121 (setq file
(substring file
(length default-directory
)))))
123 (message "Generating autoloads for %s..." file
)
129 (goto-char (point-min))
131 (skip-chars-forward " \t\n\f")
132 (cond ((looking-at (regexp-quote generate-autoload-cookie
))
133 (search-forward generate-autoload-cookie
)
134 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
137 ;; Read the next form and make an autoload.
138 (let* ((form (prog1 (read (current-buffer))
140 (autoload (make-autoload form load-name
))
141 (doc-string-elt (get (car-safe form
)
144 (setq autoloads-done
(cons (nth 1 form
)
146 (setq autoload form
))
147 (if (and doc-string-elt
148 (stringp (nth doc-string-elt autoload
)))
149 ;; We need to hack the printing because the
150 ;; doc-string must be printed specially for
151 ;; make-docfile (sigh).
152 (let* ((p (nthcdr (1- doc-string-elt
) autoload
))
156 (mapcar (function (lambda (elt)
160 (princ "\"\\\n" outbuf
)
161 (princ (substring (prin1-to-string (car elt
)) 1)
166 (princ (substring (prin1-to-string (cdr elt
))
170 (print autoload outbuf
)))
171 ;; Copy the rest of the line to the output.
172 (let ((begin (point)))
174 (princ (buffer-substring begin
(point)) outbuf
))))
176 ;; Don't read the comment.
180 (forward-line 1))))))
182 (setq output-end
(point-marker)))
185 (insert generate-autoload-section-header
)
186 (prin1 (list 'autoloads autoloads-done load-name file
187 (nth 5 (file-attributes file
)))
190 (insert ";;; Generated autoloads from " file
"\n")
191 (goto-char output-end
)
192 (insert generate-autoload-section-trailer
)))
193 (message "Generating autoloads for %s...done" file
)))
195 (defconst generated-autoload-file
"loaddefs.el"
196 "*File \\[update-file-autoloads] puts autoloads into.
197 A .el file can set this in its local variables section to make its
198 autoloads go somewhere else.")
201 (defun update-file-autoloads (file)
202 "Update the autoloads for FILE in `generated-autoload-file'
203 \(which FILE might bind in its local variables)."
204 (interactive "fUpdate autoloads for file: ")
205 (let ((load-name (let ((name (file-name-nondirectory file
)))
206 (if (string-match "\\.elc?$" name
)
207 (substring name
0 (match-beginning 0))
210 (existing-buffer (get-file-buffer file
)))
212 ;; We want to get a value for generated-autoload-file from
213 ;; the local variables section if it's there.
214 (set-buffer (find-file-noselect file
))
215 (set-buffer (find-file-noselect generated-autoload-file
))
219 (goto-char (point-min))
220 (while (search-forward generate-autoload-section-header nil t
)
221 (let ((form (condition-case ()
222 (read (current-buffer))
224 (if (string= (nth 2 form
) load-name
)
225 (let ((begin (match-beginning 0))
226 (last-time (nth 4 form
))
227 (file-time (nth 5 (file-attributes file
))))
228 (if (and (or (null existing-buffer
)
229 (not (buffer-modified-p existing-buffer
)))
230 (listp last-time
) (= (length last-time
) 2)
231 (or (> (car last-time
) (car file-time
))
232 (and (= (car last-time
) (car file-time
))
233 (>= (nth 1 last-time
)
234 (nth 1 file-time
)))))
235 (message "Autoload section for %s is up to date."
237 (search-forward generate-autoload-section-trailer
)
238 (delete-region begin
(point))
239 (generate-file-autoloads file
))
243 ;; Have the user tell us where to put the section.
244 (save-window-excursion
245 (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))
246 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*"
247 (princ (substitute-command-keys
249 Move point to where the autoload section
250 for %s should be inserted.
251 Then do \\[exit-recursive-edit]."
254 (generate-file-autoloads file
)))
255 (if (and (null existing-buffer
)
256 (setq existing-buffer
(get-file-buffer file
)))
257 (kill-buffer existing-buffer
)))))
260 (defun update-autoloads-here ()
261 "Update the sections of the current buffer generated by
262 \\[update-file-autoloads]."
264 (let ((generated-autoload-file (buffer-file-name)))
266 (goto-char (point-min))
267 (while (search-forward generate-autoload-section-header nil t
)
268 (let* ((form (condition-case ()
269 (read (current-buffer))
272 (if (and (stringp file
)
273 (or (get-file-buffer file
)
274 (file-exists-p file
)))
276 (setq file
(if (y-or-n-p (format "Library \"%s\" (load \
277 file \"%s\") doesn't exist. Remove its autoload section? "
281 (read-file-name (format "Find \"%s\" load file: "
286 (let ((begin (match-beginning 0)))
287 (search-forward generate-autoload-section-trailer
)
288 (delete-region begin
(point))))
290 (generate-file-autoloads file
)))))))
293 (defun update-directory-autoloads (dir)
294 "Run \\[update-file-autoloads] on each .el file in DIR."
295 (interactive "DUpdate autoloads for directory: ")
296 (mapcar 'update-file-autoloads
297 (directory-files dir nil
"\\.el$")))
300 (defun batch-update-autoloads ()
301 "Update the autoloads for the files or directories on the command line.
302 Runs \\[update-file-autoloads] on files and \\[update-directory-autoloads]
303 on directories. Must be used only with -batch, and kills Emacs on completion.
304 Each file will be processed even if an error occurred previously.
305 For example, invoke \"emacs -batch -f batch-update-autoloads *.el\""
306 (if (not noninteractive
)
307 (error "batch-update-file-autoloads is to be used only with -batch"))
309 (args command-line-args-left
))
312 (condition-case lossage
313 (if (file-directory-p (expand-file-name (car args
)))
314 (update-directory-autoloads (car args
))
315 (update-file-autoloads (car args
)))
316 (error (progn (message ">>Error processing %s: %s"
319 (throw 'file nil
)))))
320 (setq args
(cdr args
)))
321 (save-some-buffers t
)
323 (kill-emacs (if lost
1 0))))
327 ;;; autoload.el ends here