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 ;; Keywords: bookmarks, placeholders
   9
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  11
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  25 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  26
  27 ;;; Commentary:
  28
  29 ;; Automatically save place in files, so that visiting them later
  30 ;; (even during a different Emacs session) automatically moves point
  31 ;; to the saved position, when the file is first found.  Uses the
  32 ;; value of buffer-local variable save-place to determine whether to
  33 ;; save position or not.
  34 ;;
  35 ;; Thanks to Stefan Schoef, who sent a patch with the
  36 ;; `save-place-version-control' stuff in it.
  37
  38 ;;; Code:
  39
  40 ;; this is what I was using during testing:
  41 ;; (define-key ctl-x-map "p" 'toggle-save-place)
  42
  43 (defgroup save-place nil
  44   "Automatically save place in files."
  45   :group 'data)
  46
  47
  48 (defvar save-place-alist nil
  49   "Alist of saved places to go back to when revisiting files.
  50 Each element looks like (FILENAME . POSITION);
  51 visiting file FILENAME goes automatically to position POSITION
  52 rather than the beginning of the buffer.
  53 This alist is saved between Emacs sessions.")
  54
  55 (defcustom save-place nil
  56   "*Non-nil means automatically save place in each file.
  57 This means when you visit a file, point goes to the last place
  58 where it was when you previously visited the same file.
  59 This variable is automatically buffer-local.
  60
  61 If you wish your place in any file to always be automatically saved,
  62 simply put this in your `~/.emacs' file:
  63
  64 \(setq-default save-place t\)"
  65   :type 'boolean
  66   :group 'save-place)
  67
  68 (make-variable-buffer-local 'save-place)
  69
  70 (defcustom save-place-file (convert-standard-filename "~/.emacs-places")
  71   "*Name of the file that records `save-place-alist' value."
  72   :type 'file
  73   :group 'save-place)
  74
  75 (defcustom save-place-version-control 'nospecial
  76   "*Controls whether to make numbered backups of master save-place file.
  77 It can have four values: t, nil, `never', and `nospecial'.  The first
  78 three have the same meaning that they do for the variable
  79 `version-control', and the final value `nospecial' means just use the
  80 value of `version-control'."
  81   :type '(radio (const :tag "Unconditionally" t)
  82                 (const :tag "For VC Files" nil)
  83                 (const never)
  84                 (const :tag "Use value of version-control" nospecial))
  85   :group 'save-place)
  86
  87 (defvar save-place-loaded nil
  88   "Non-nil means that the `save-place-file' has been loaded.")
  89
  90 (defcustom save-place-limit nil
  91   "Maximum number of entries to retain in the list; nil means no limit."
  92   :type '(choice (integer :tag "Entries" :value 1)
  93                  (const :tag "No Limit" nil))
  94   :group 'save-place)
  95
  96 (defun toggle-save-place (&optional parg)
  97   "Toggle whether to save your place in this file between sessions.
  98 If this mode is enabled, point is recorded when you kill the buffer
  99 or exit Emacs.  Visiting this file again will go to that position,
 100 even in a later Emacs session.
 101
 102 If called with a prefix arg, the mode is enabled if and only if
 103 the argument is positive.
 104
 105 To save places automatically in all files, put this in your `.emacs' file:
 106
 107 \(setq-default save-place t\)"
 108   (interactive "P")
 109   (if (not buffer-file-name)
 110       (message "Buffer `%s' not visiting a file" (buffer-name))
 111     (if (and save-place (or (not parg) (<= parg 0)))
 112         (progn
 113           (message "No place will be saved in this file")
 114           (setq save-place nil))
 115       (message "Place will be saved")
 116       (setq save-place t))))
 117
 118 (defun save-place-to-alist ()
 119   ;; put filename and point in a cons box and then cons that onto the
 120   ;; front of the save-place-alist, if save-place is non-nil.
 121   ;; Otherwise, just delete that file from the alist.
 122   ;; first check to make sure alist has been loaded in from the master
 123   ;; file.  If not, do so, then feel free to modify the alist.  It
 124   ;; will be saved again when Emacs is killed.
 125   (or save-place-loaded (load-save-place-alist-from-file))
 126   (if buffer-file-name
 127       (progn
 128         (let ((cell (assoc buffer-file-name save-place-alist)))
 129           (if cell
 130               (setq save-place-alist (delq cell save-place-alist))))
 131         (if save-place
 132             (setq save-place-alist
 133                   (cons (cons buffer-file-name
 134                               (if (not (eq major-mode 'hexl-mode))
 135                                   (point)
 136                                 (1+ (hexl-current-address))))
 137                         save-place-alist))))))
 138
 139 (defun save-place-alist-to-file ()
 140   (let ((file (expand-file-name save-place-file)))
 141     (save-excursion
 142       (message "Saving places to %s..." file)
 143       (set-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Saved Places*"))
 144       (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
 145       (if (file-readable-p file)
 146           (insert-file-contents file))
 147       (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
 148       (goto-char (point-min))
 149       (print save-place-alist (current-buffer))
 150       (let ((version-control
 151              (cond
 152               ((null save-place-version-control) nil)
 153               ((eq 'never save-place-version-control) 'never)
 154               ((eq 'nospecial save-place-version-control) version-control)
 155               (t
 156                t))))
 157         (write-file file)
 158         (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
 159         (message "Saving places to %s...done" file)))))
 160
 161 (defun load-save-place-alist-from-file ()
 162   (if (not save-place-loaded)
 163       (progn
 164         (setq save-place-loaded t)
 165         (let ((file (expand-file-name save-place-file)))
 166           ;; make sure that the alist does not get overwritten, and then
 167           ;; load it if it exists:
 168           (if (file-readable-p file)
 169               (save-excursion
 170                 (message "Loading places from %s..." save-place-file)
 171                 ;; don't want to use find-file because we have been
 172                 ;; adding hooks to it.
 173                 (set-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Saved Places*"))
 174                 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
 175                 (insert-file-contents file)
 176                 (goto-char (point-min))
 177                 (setq save-place-alist
 178                       (car (read-from-string
 179                             (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))))
 180
 181                 ;; If there is a limit, and we're over it, then we'll
 182                 ;; have to truncate the end of the list:
 183                 (if save-place-limit
 184                     (if (<= save-place-limit 0)
 185                         ;; Zero gets special cased.  I'm not thrilled
 186                         ;; with this, but the loop for >= 1 is tight.
 187                         (setq save-place-alist nil)
 188                       ;; Else the limit is >= 1, so enforce it by
 189                       ;; counting and then `setcdr'ing.
 190                       (let ((s save-place-alist)
 191                             (count 1))
 192                         (while s
 193                           (if (>= count save-place-limit)
 194                               (setcdr s nil)
 195                             (setq count (1+ count)))
 196                           (setq s (cdr s))))))
 197
 198                 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
 199                 (message "Loading places from %s...done" file)))
 200           nil))))
 201
 202 (defun save-places-to-alist ()
 203   ;; go through buffer-list, saving places to alist if save-place is
 204   ;; non-nil, deleting them from alist if it is nil.
 205   (let ((buf-list (buffer-list)))
 206     (while buf-list
 207       ;; put this into a save-excursion in case someone is counting on
 208       ;; another function in kill-emacs-hook to act on the last buffer
 209       ;; they were in:
 210       (save-excursion
 211         (set-buffer (car buf-list))
 212         ;; save-place checks buffer-file-name too, but we can avoid
 213         ;; overhead of function call by checking here too.
 214         (and buffer-file-name (save-place-to-alist))
 215         (setq buf-list (cdr buf-list))))))
 216
 217 (defun save-place-find-file-hook ()
 218   (or save-place-loaded (load-save-place-alist-from-file))
 219   (let ((cell (assoc buffer-file-name save-place-alist)))
 220     (if cell
 221         (progn
 222           (or after-find-file-from-revert-buffer
 223               (goto-char (cdr cell)))
 224           ;; and make sure it will be saved again for later
 225           (setq save-place t)))))
 226
 227 (defun save-place-kill-emacs-hook ()
 228   ;; First update the alist.  This loads the old save-place-file if nec.
 229   (save-places-to-alist)
 230   ;; Now save the alist in the file, if we have ever loaded the file
 231   ;; (including just now).
 232   (if save-place-loaded
 233       (save-place-alist-to-file)))
 234
 235 (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'save-place-find-file-hook t)
 236
 237 (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook 'save-place-kill-emacs-hook)
 238
 239 (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'save-place-to-alist)
 240
 241 (provide 'saveplace) ; why not...
 242
 243 ;;; saveplace.el ends here
 244