lisp/mail/emacsbug.el

   1 ;;; emacsbug.el --- command to report Emacs bugs to appropriate mailing list
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
   4 ;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
   5 ;;   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   6
   7 ;; Author: K. Shane Hartman
   8 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   9 ;; Keywords: maint mail
  10
  11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  12
  13 ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  14 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  15 ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  16 ;; (at your option) any later version.
  17
  18 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  19 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  20 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  21 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
  22
  23 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  24 ;; along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  25
  26 ;;; Commentary:
  27
  28 ;; `M-x report-emacs-bug' starts an email note to the Emacs maintainers
  29 ;; describing a problem.  You need to be able to send mail from Emacs
  30 ;; to complete the process.  Alternatively, compose the bug report in
  31 ;; Emacs then paste it into your normal mail client.
  32
  33 ;;; Code:
  34
  35 (defgroup emacsbug nil
  36   "Sending Emacs bug reports."
  37   :group 'maint
  38   :group 'mail)
  39
  40 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-address "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org"
  41   "Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs bugs."
  42   :group 'emacsbug
  43   :type 'string)
  44
  45 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-pretest-address "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org"
  46   "Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs pretest bugs."
  47   :group 'emacsbug
  48   :type 'string
  49   :version "23.2")                ; emacs-pretest-bug -> bug-gnu-emacs
  50
  51 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation nil
  52   "If non-nil, suppress the confirmations asked for the sake of novice users."
  53   :group 'emacsbug
  54   :type 'boolean)
  55
  56 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-explanations nil
  57   "If non-nil, suppress the explanations given for the sake of novice users."
  58   :group 'emacsbug
  59   :type 'boolean)
  60
  61 ;; User options end here.
  62
  63
  64 (defvar report-emacs-bug-orig-text nil
  65   "The automatically-created initial text of the bug report.")
  66
  67 (defvar report-emacs-bug-send-command nil
  68   "Name of the command to send the bug report, as a string.")
  69 (make-variable-buffer-local 'report-emacs-bug-send-command)
  70
  71 (defvar report-emacs-bug-send-hook nil
  72   "Hook run before sending the bug report.")
  73 (make-variable-buffer-local 'report-emacs-bug-send-hook)
  74
  75 (declare-function x-server-vendor "xfns.c" (&optional terminal))
  76 (declare-function x-server-version "xfns.c" (&optional terminal))
  77 (declare-function message-sort-headers "message" ())
  78
  79 ;;;###autoload
  80 (defun report-emacs-bug (topic &optional recent-keys)
  81   "Report a bug in GNU Emacs.
  82 Prompts for bug subject.  Leaves you in a mail buffer."
  83   ;; This strange form ensures that (recent-keys) is the value before
  84   ;; the bug subject string is read.
  85   (interactive (reverse (list (recent-keys) (read-string "Bug Subject: "))))
  86   ;; The syntax `version;' is preferred to `[version]' because the
  87   ;; latter could be mistakenly stripped by mailing software.
  88   (if (eq system-type 'ms-dos)
  89       (setq topic (concat emacs-version "; " topic))
  90     (when (string-match "^\\(\\([.0-9]+\\)*\\)\\.[0-9]+$" emacs-version)
  91       (setq topic (concat (match-string 1 emacs-version) "; " topic))))
  92   ;; If there are four numbers in emacs-version (three for MS-DOS),
  93   ;; this is a pretest version.
  94   (let* ((pretest-p (string-match (if (eq system-type 'ms-dos)
  95                                       "\\..*\\."
  96                                     "\\..*\\..*\\.")
  97                                   emacs-version))
  98          (from-buffer (current-buffer))
  99          (reporting-address (if pretest-p
 100                                 report-emacs-bug-pretest-address
 101                               report-emacs-bug-address))
 102          ;; Put these properties on semantically-void text.
 103          ;; report-emacs-bug-hook deletes these regions before sending.
 104          (prompt-properties '(field emacsbug-prompt
 105                                     intangible but-helpful
 106                                     rear-nonsticky t))
 107          user-point message-end-point)
 108     (setq message-end-point
 109           (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Messages*")
 110             (point-max-marker)))
 111     (compose-mail reporting-address topic)
 112     ;; The rest of this does not execute if the user was asked to
 113     ;; confirm and said no.
 114     ;; Message-mode sorts the headers before sending.  We sort now so
 115     ;; that report-emacs-bug-orig-text remains valid.  (Bug#5178)
 116     (if (eq major-mode 'message-mode)
 117         (message-sort-headers))
 118     (rfc822-goto-eoh)
 119     (forward-line 1)
 120     (let ((signature (buffer-substring (point) (point-max))))
 121       (delete-region (point) (point-max))
 122       (insert signature)
 123       (backward-char (length signature)))
 124     (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
 125       ;; Insert warnings for novice users.
 126       (when (string-match "@gnu\\.org$" reporting-address)
 127         (insert "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,\n")
 128         (let ((pos (point)))
 129           (insert "not to your local site managers!")
 130           (overlay-put (make-overlay pos (point)) 'face 'highlight)))
 131       (insert "\nPlease write in ")
 132       (let ((pos (point)))
 133         (insert "English")
 134         (overlay-put (make-overlay pos (point)) 'face 'highlight))
 135       (insert " if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
 136 usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.\n\n")
 137       (insert (format "Your report will be posted to the %s mailing list"
 138                       reporting-address))
 139       ;; Nowadays all bug reports end up there.
 140 ;;;      (if pretest-p (insert ".\n\n")
 141         (insert "\nand the gnu.emacs.bug news group, and at http://debbugs.gnu.org.\n\n"))
 142
 143     (insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n"
 144             "and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give\n"
 145             "a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':\n\n")
 146     ;; Stop message-mode stealing the properties we are about to add.
 147     (if (boundp 'message-strip-special-text-properties)
 148         (set (make-local-variable 'message-strip-special-text-properties) nil))
 149     (add-text-properties (save-excursion
 150                            (rfc822-goto-eoh)
 151                            (line-beginning-position 2))
 152                          (point)
 153                          prompt-properties)
 154     (setq user-point (point))
 155     (insert "\n\n")
 156
 157     (insert "If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,\n"
 158             "please include the output from the following gdb commands:\n"
 159             "    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.\n")
 160
 161     (let ((debug-file (expand-file-name "DEBUG" data-directory)))
 162       (if (file-readable-p debug-file)
 163           (insert "For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file\n"
 164                   debug-file ".\n")))
 165     (add-text-properties (1+ user-point) (point) prompt-properties)
 166
 167     (insert "\n\nIn " (emacs-version) "\n")
 168     (if (fboundp 'x-server-vendor)
 169         (condition-case nil
 170             ;; This is used not only for X11 but also W32 and others.
 171             (insert "Windowing system distributor `" (x-server-vendor)
 172                     "', version "
 173                     (mapconcat 'number-to-string (x-server-version) ".") "\n")
 174           (error t)))
 175     (if (and system-configuration-options
 176              (not (equal system-configuration-options "")))
 177         (insert "configured using `configure "
 178                 system-configuration-options "'\n\n"))
 179     (insert "Important settings:\n")
 180     (mapc
 181      '(lambda (var)
 182         (insert (format "  value of $%s: %s\n" var (getenv var))))
 183      '("LC_ALL" "LC_COLLATE" "LC_CTYPE" "LC_MESSAGES"
 184        "LC_MONETARY" "LC_NUMERIC" "LC_TIME" "LANG" "XMODIFIERS"))
 185     (insert (format "  locale-coding-system: %s\n" locale-coding-system))
 186     (insert (format "  default enable-multibyte-characters: %s\n"
 187                     (default-value 'enable-multibyte-characters)))
 188     (insert "\n")
 189     (insert (format "Major mode: %s\n"
 190                     (format-mode-line
 191                      (buffer-local-value 'mode-name from-buffer)
 192                      nil nil from-buffer)))
 193     (insert "\n")
 194     (insert "Minor modes in effect:\n")
 195     (dolist (mode minor-mode-list)
 196       (and (boundp mode) (buffer-local-value mode from-buffer)
 197            (insert (format "  %s: %s\n" mode
 198                            (buffer-local-value mode from-buffer)))))
 199     (insert "\n")
 200     (insert "Recent input:\n")
 201     (let ((before-keys (point)))
 202       (insert (mapconcat (lambda (key)
 203                            (if (or (integerp key)
 204                                    (symbolp key)
 205                                    (listp key))
 206                                (single-key-description key)
 207                              (prin1-to-string key nil)))
 208                          (or recent-keys (recent-keys))
 209                          " "))
 210       (save-restriction
 211         (narrow-to-region before-keys (point))
 212         (goto-char before-keys)
 213         (while (progn (move-to-column 50) (not (eobp)))
 214           (search-forward " " nil t)
 215           (insert "\n"))))
 216     (let ((message-buf (get-buffer "*Messages*")))
 217       (if message-buf
 218           (let (beg-pos
 219                 (end-pos message-end-point))
 220             (with-current-buffer message-buf
 221               (goto-char end-pos)
 222               (forward-line -10)
 223               (setq beg-pos (point)))
 224             (insert "\n\nRecent messages:\n")
 225             (insert-buffer-substring message-buf beg-pos end-pos))))
 226     ;; After Recent messages, to avoid the messages produced by
 227     ;; list-load-path-shadows.
 228     (unless (looking-back "\n")
 229       (insert "\n"))
 230     (insert "\n")
 231     (insert "Load-path shadows:\n")
 232     (message "Checking for load-path shadows...")
 233     (let ((shadows (list-load-path-shadows t)))
 234       (message "Checking for load-path shadows...done")
 235       (insert (if (zerop (length shadows))
 236                   "None found.\n"
 237                 shadows)))
 238     (insert (format "\nFeatures:\n%s\n" features))
 239     (fill-region (line-beginning-position 0) (point))
 240     ;; This is so the user has to type something in order to send easily.
 241     (use-local-map (nconc (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map)))
 242     (define-key (current-local-map) "\C-c\C-i" 'report-emacs-bug-info)
 243     ;; Could test major-mode instead.
 244     (cond ((memq mail-user-agent '(message-user-agent gnus-user-agent))
 245            (setq report-emacs-bug-send-command "message-send-and-exit"
 246                  report-emacs-bug-send-hook 'message-send-hook))
 247           ((eq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)
 248            (setq report-emacs-bug-send-command "mail-send-and-exit"
 249                  report-emacs-bug-send-hook 'mail-send-hook))
 250           ((eq mail-user-agent 'mh-e-user-agent)
 251            (setq report-emacs-bug-send-command "mh-send-letter"
 252                  report-emacs-bug-send-hook 'mh-before-send-letter-hook)))
 253     (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
 254       (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
 255         (princ "While in the mail buffer:\n\n")
 256         (if report-emacs-bug-send-command
 257             (princ (substitute-command-keys
 258                     (format "  Type \\[%s] to send the bug report.\n"
 259                             report-emacs-bug-send-command))))
 260         (princ (substitute-command-keys
 261                 "  Type \\[kill-buffer] RET to cancel (don't send it).\n"))
 262         (terpri)
 263         (princ (substitute-command-keys
 264                 "  Type \\[report-emacs-bug-info] to visit in Info the Emacs Manual section
 265     about when and how to write a bug report, and what
 266     information you should include to help fix the bug.")))
 267       (shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer (get-buffer-window "*Bug Help*")))
 268     ;; Make it less likely people will send empty messages.
 269     (if report-emacs-bug-send-hook
 270         (add-hook report-emacs-bug-send-hook 'report-emacs-bug-hook nil t))
 271     (goto-char (point-max))
 272     (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
 273     (make-local-variable 'report-emacs-bug-orig-text)
 274     (setq report-emacs-bug-orig-text
 275           (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point)))
 276     (goto-char user-point)))
 277
 278 (defun report-emacs-bug-info ()
 279   "Go to the Info node on reporting Emacs bugs."
 280   (interactive)
 281   (info "(emacs)Bugs"))
 282
 283 (defun report-emacs-bug-hook ()
 284   "Do some checking before sending a bug report."
 285   (save-excursion
 286     (goto-char (point-max))
 287     (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
 288     (and (= (- (point) (point-min))
 289             (length report-emacs-bug-orig-text))
 290          (string-equal (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point))
 291                        report-emacs-bug-orig-text)
 292          (error "No text entered in bug report"))
 293     ;; Check the buffer contents and reject non-English letters.
 294     ;; FIXME message-mode probably does this anyway.
 295     (goto-char (point-min))
 296     (skip-chars-forward "\0-\177")
 297     (unless (eobp)
 298       (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation
 299               (y-or-n-p "Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? "))
 300           (while (progn (skip-chars-forward "\0-\177")
 301                         (not (eobp)))
 302             (let ((ch (following-char)))
 303               (delete-char 1)
 304               (insert (format "=%02x" ch))))))
 305
 306     ;; The last warning for novice users.
 307     (unless (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation
 308                 (yes-or-no-p
 309                  "Send this bug report to the Emacs maintainers? "))
 310       (goto-char (point-min))
 311       (if (search-forward "To: ")
 312           (delete-region (point) (line-end-position)))
 313       (if report-emacs-bug-send-hook
 314           (kill-local-variable report-emacs-bug-send-hook))
 315       (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
 316         (princ (substitute-command-keys
 317                 (format "\
 318 You invoked the command M-x report-emacs-bug,
 319 but you decided not to mail the bug report to the Emacs maintainers.
 320
 321 If you want to mail it to someone else instead,
 322 please insert the proper e-mail address after \"To: \",
 323 and send the mail again%s."
 324                         (if report-emacs-bug-send-command
 325                             (format " using \\[%s]"
 326                                     report-emacs-bug-send-command)
 327                           "")))))
 328       (error "M-x report-emacs-bug was cancelled, please read *Bug Help* buffer"))
 329
 330     ;; Delete the uninteresting text that was just to help fill out the report.
 331     (rfc822-goto-eoh)
 332     (forward-line 1)
 333     (let ((pos (1- (point))))
 334       (while (setq pos (text-property-any pos (point-max)
 335                                           'field 'emacsbug-prompt))
 336         (delete-region pos (field-end (1+ pos)))))))
 337
 338 (provide 'emacsbug)
 339
 340 ;;; emacsbug.el ends here