1 ;;; emacsbug.el --- command to report Emacs bugs to appropriate mailing list.
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 1997 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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13 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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19 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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22 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
23 ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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@prep.ai.mit.edu"
46 "*Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs bugs."
50 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-pretest-address
"emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.ai.mit.edu"
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.
87 (goto-char (point-min))
88 (re-search-forward (concat "^" (regexp-quote mail-header-separator
) "\n"))
89 (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
90 ;; Insert warnings for novice users.
91 (insert "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,\n")
93 (insert " not to your local site managers!!")
94 (put-text-property pos
(point) 'face
'highlight
))
95 (insert "\nPlease write in ")
98 (put-text-property pos
(point) 'face
'highlight
))
99 (insert ", because the Emacs maintainers do not have
100 translators to read other languages for them.\n\n"))
102 (insert "In " (emacs-version) "\n")
103 (if (and system-configuration-options
104 (not (equal system-configuration-options
"")))
105 (insert "configured using `configure "
106 system-configuration-options
"'\n"))
108 (insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n"
109 "and the precise symptoms of the bug:\n\n")
110 (setq user-point
(point))
113 (let ((before-keys (point)))
114 (insert (mapconcat (lambda (key)
115 (if (or (integerp key
)
118 (single-key-description key
)
119 (prin1-to-string key nil
)))
120 (or recent-keys
(recent-keys))
123 (narrow-to-region before-keys
(point))
124 (goto-char before-keys
)
125 (while (progn (move-to-column 50) (not (eobp)))
126 (search-forward " " nil t
)
128 (let ((message-buf (get-buffer "*Messages*")))
131 (end-pos message-end-point
))
132 (with-current-buffer message-buf
135 (setq beg-pos
(point)))
136 (insert "\n\nRecent messages:\n")
137 (insert-buffer-substring message-buf beg-pos end-pos
))))
138 ;; This is so the user has to type something
139 ;; in order to send easily.
140 (use-local-map (nconc (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map)))
141 (define-key (current-local-map) "\C-c\C-i" 'report-emacs-bug-info
)
142 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
143 (if (eq mail-user-agent
'sendmail-user-agent
)
144 (princ (substitute-command-keys
145 "Type \\[mail-send-and-exit] to send the bug report.\n")))
146 (princ (substitute-command-keys
147 "Type \\[kill-buffer] RET to cancel (don't send it).\n"))
149 (princ (substitute-command-keys
150 "Type \\[report-emacs-bug-info] to visit in Info the Emacs Manual section
151 about when and how to write a bug report,
152 and what information to supply so that the bug can be fixed.
153 Type SPC to scroll through this section and its subsections.")))
154 ;; Make it less likely people will send empty messages.
155 (make-local-variable 'mail-send-hook
)
156 (add-hook 'mail-send-hook
'report-emacs-bug-hook
)
157 ;; Discourage users to write non-English text.
158 (setq enable-multibyte-characters nil
)
160 (goto-char (point-max))
161 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
162 (make-local-variable 'report-emacs-bug-orig-text
)
163 (setq report-emacs-bug-orig-text
(buffer-substring (point-min) (point))))
164 (goto-char user-point
)))
166 (defun report-emacs-bug-info ()
167 "Go to the Info node on reporting Emacs bugs."
172 (Info-goto-node "Bugs"))
174 (defun report-emacs-bug-hook ()
176 (goto-char (point-max))
177 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
178 (if (and (= (- (point) (point-min))
179 (length report-emacs-bug-orig-text
))
180 (equal (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))
181 report-emacs-bug-orig-text
))
182 (error "No text entered in bug report"))
184 ;; Check the buffer contents and reject non-English letters.
185 (let ((charsets (delq 'ascii
186 (find-charset-region (point-min) (point-max)))))
188 (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation
189 (y-or-n-p "Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? "))
191 (goto-char (point-min))
192 (let ((enable-multibyte-characters nil
)
193 (pattern (format "[%c-%c]" 128 255))
195 (while (re-search-forward pattern nil t
)
196 (setq ch
(preceding-char))
198 (insert (format "=%02x" ch
)))))
199 (error "Please convert non-ASCII characters to something else"))))
201 ;; The last warning for novice users.
202 (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation
204 "Send this bug report to the Emacs maintainers? "))
205 ;; Just send the current mail.
207 (goto-char (point-min))
208 (if (search-forward "To: ")
211 (delete-region pos
(point))))
212 (kill-local-variable 'mail-send-hook
)
213 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
214 (princ (substitute-command-keys "\
215 You invoked the command M-x report-emacs-bug,
216 but you decided not to mail the bug report to the Emacs maintainers.
218 If you want to mail it to someone else instead,
219 please insert the proper e-mail address after \"To: \",
220 and send the mail again using \\[mail-send-and-exit].")))
221 (error "M-x report-emacs-bug was cancelled, please read *Bug Help* buffer"))
226 ;;; emacsbug.el ends here