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1 ;;; userlock.el --- handle file access contention between multiple users
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6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
7 ;; Keywords: internal
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26 ;;; Commentary:
28 ;; This file is autoloaded to handle certain conditions
29 ;; detected by the file-locking code within Emacs.
30 ;; The two entry points are `ask-user-about-lock' and
31 ;; `ask-user-about-supersession-threat'.
33 ;;; Code:
35 (put 'file-locked 'error-conditions '(file-locked file-error error))
36 (put 'file-locked 'error-message "File is locked")
38 ;;;###autoload
39 (defun ask-user-about-lock (file opponent)
40 "Ask user what to do when he wants to edit FILE but it is locked by OPPONENT.
41 This function has a choice of three things to do:
42 do (signal 'file-locked (list FILE OPPONENT))
43 to refrain from editing the file
44 return t (grab the lock on the file)
45 return nil (edit the file even though it is locked).
46 You can redefine this function to choose among those three alternatives
47 in any way you like."
48 (discard-input)
49 (save-window-excursion
50 (let (answer short-opponent short-file)
51 (setq short-file
52 (if (> (length file) 22)
53 (concat "..." (substring file (- (length file) 22)))
54 file))
55 (setq short-opponent
56 (if (> (length opponent) 25)
57 (save-match-data
58 (string-match " (pid [0-9]+)" opponent)
59 (concat (substring opponent 0 13) "..."
60 (match-string 0 opponent)))
61 opponent))
62 (while (null answer)
63 (message "%s locked by %s: (s, q, p, ?)? "
64 short-file short-opponent)
65 (let ((tem (let ((inhibit-quit t)
66 (cursor-in-echo-area t))
67 (prog1 (downcase (read-char))
68 (setq quit-flag nil)))))
69 (if (= tem help-char)
70 (ask-user-about-lock-help)
71 (setq answer (assoc tem '((?s . t)
72 (?q . yield)
73 (?\C-g . yield)
74 (?p . nil)
75 (?? . help))))
76 (cond ((null answer)
77 (beep)
78 (message "Please type q, s, or p; or ? for help")
79 (sit-for 3))
80 ((eq (cdr answer) 'help)
81 (ask-user-about-lock-help)
82 (setq answer nil))
83 ((eq (cdr answer) 'yield)
84 (signal 'file-locked (list file opponent)))))))
85 (cdr answer))))
87 (defun ask-user-about-lock-help ()
88 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*"
89 (princ "It has been detected that you want to modify a file that someone else has
90 already started modifying in Emacs.
92 You can <s>teal the file; the other user becomes the
93 intruder if (s)he ever unmodifies the file and then changes it again.
94 You can <p>roceed; you edit at your own (and the other user's) risk.
95 You can <q>uit; don't modify this file.")
96 (save-excursion
97 (set-buffer standard-output)
98 (help-mode))))
100 (put
101 'file-supersession 'error-conditions '(file-supersession file-error error))
103 ;;;###autoload
104 (defun ask-user-about-supersession-threat (fn)
105 "Ask a user who is about to modify an obsolete buffer what to do.
106 This function has two choices: it can return, in which case the modification
107 of the buffer will proceed, or it can (signal 'file-supersession (file)),
108 in which case the proposed buffer modification will not be made.
110 You can rewrite this to use any criterion you like to choose which one to do.
111 The buffer in question is current when this function is called."
112 (discard-input)
113 (save-window-excursion
114 (let (answer)
115 (while (null answer)
116 (message "%s changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) "
117 (file-name-nondirectory fn))
118 (let ((tem (downcase (let ((cursor-in-echo-area t))
119 (read-char-exclusive)))))
120 (setq answer
121 (if (= tem help-char)
122 'help
123 (cdr (assoc tem '((?n . yield)
124 (?\C-g . yield)
125 (?y . proceed)
126 (?r . revert)
127 (?? . help))))))
128 (cond ((null answer)
129 (beep)
130 (message "Please type y, n or r; or ? for help")
131 (sit-for 3))
132 ((eq answer 'help)
133 (ask-user-about-supersession-help)
134 (setq answer nil))
135 ((eq answer 'revert)
136 (revert-buffer nil (not (buffer-modified-p)))
137 ; ask confirmation if buffer modified
138 (signal 'file-supersession
139 (list "File reverted" fn)))
140 ((eq answer 'yield)
141 (signal 'file-supersession
142 (list "File changed on disk" fn))))))
143 (message
144 "File on disk now will become a backup file if you save these changes.")
145 (setq buffer-backed-up nil))))
147 (defun ask-user-about-supersession-help ()
148 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*"
149 (princ "You want to modify a buffer whose disk file has changed
150 since you last read it in or saved it with this buffer.
152 If you say `y' to go ahead and modify this buffer,
153 you risk ruining the work of whoever rewrote the file.
154 If you say `r' to revert, the contents of the buffer are refreshed
155 from the file on disk.
156 If you say `n', the change you started to make will be aborted.
158 Usually, you should type `n' and then `M-x revert-buffer',
159 to get the latest version of the file, then make the change again.")
160 (save-excursion
161 (set-buffer standard-output)
162 (help-mode))))
164 ;;; arch-tag: a61c5b60-e1c8-44fd-894a-c617f4dfc639
165 ;;; userlock.el ends here