1 ;;; cust-print.el --- handles print-level and print-circle
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
4 ;; 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 ;; Author: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@holonexus.org>
8 ;; Keywords: extensions
11 ;; cust-print|Daniel LaLiberte|liberte@holonexus.org
12 ;; |Handle print-level, print-circle and more.
14 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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29 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
33 ;; This package provides a general print handler for prin1 and princ
34 ;; that supports print-level and print-circle, and by the way,
35 ;; print-length since the standard routines are being replaced. Also,
36 ;; to print custom types constructed from lists and vectors, use
37 ;; custom-print-list and custom-print-vector. See the documentation
38 ;; strings of these variables for more details.
40 ;; If the results of your expressions contain circular references to
41 ;; other parts of the same structure, the standard Emacs print
42 ;; subroutines may fail to print with an untrappable error,
43 ;; "Apparently circular structure being printed". If you only use cdr
44 ;; circular lists (where cdrs of lists point back; what is the right
45 ;; term here?), you can limit the length of printing with
46 ;; print-length. But car circular lists and circular vectors generate
47 ;; the above mentioned error in Emacs version 18. Version
48 ;; 19 supports print-level, but it is often useful to get a better
49 ;; print representation of circular and shared structures; the print-circle
50 ;; option may be used to print more concise representations.
52 ;; There are three main ways to use this package. First, you may
53 ;; replace prin1, princ, and some subroutines that use them by calling
54 ;; install-custom-print so that any use of these functions in
55 ;; Lisp code will be affected; you can later reset with
56 ;; uninstall-custom-print. Second, you may temporarily install
57 ;; these functions with the macro with-custom-print. Third, you
58 ;; could call the custom routines directly, thus only affecting the
59 ;; printing that requires them.
61 ;; Note that subroutines which call print subroutines directly will
62 ;; not use the custom print functions. In particular, the evaluation
63 ;; functions like eval-region call the print subroutines directly.
64 ;; Therefore, if you evaluate (aref circ-list 0), where circ-list is a
65 ;; circular list rather than an array, aref calls error directly which
66 ;; will jump to the top level instead of printing the circular list.
68 ;; Uninterned symbols are recognized when print-circle is non-nil,
69 ;; but they are not printed specially here. Use the cl-packages package
70 ;; to print according to print-gensym.
72 ;; Obviously the right way to implement this custom-print facility is
73 ;; in C or with hooks into the standard printer. Please volunteer
74 ;; since I don't have the time or need. More CL-like printing
75 ;; capabilities could be added in the future.
77 ;; Implementation design: we want to use the same list and vector
78 ;; processing algorithm for all versions of prin1 and princ, since how
79 ;; the processing is done depends on print-length, print-level, and
80 ;; print-circle. For circle printing, a preprocessing step is
81 ;; required before the final printing. Thanks to Jamie Zawinski
82 ;; for motivation and algorithms.
87 (defgroup cust-print nil
88 "Handles print-level and print-circle."
93 ;; If using cl-packages:
95 '(defpackage "cust-print"
96 (:nicknames
"CP" "custom-print")
103 custom-print-uninstall
104 custom-print-installed-p
109 custom-prin1-to-string
119 '(in-package cust-print
)
121 ;; Emacs 18 doesn't have defalias.
122 ;; Provide def for byte compiler.
124 (or (fboundp 'defalias
) (fset 'defalias
'fset
)))
128 ;;=========================================================
130 ;;(defvar print-length nil
131 ;; "*Controls how many elements of a list, at each level, are printed.
132 ;;This is defined by emacs.")
134 (defcustom print-level nil
135 "*Controls how many levels deep a nested data object will print.
137 If nil, printing proceeds recursively and may lead to
138 max-lisp-eval-depth being exceeded or an error may occur:
139 `Apparently circular structure being printed.'
140 Also see `print-length' and `print-circle'.
142 If non-nil, components at levels equal to or greater than `print-level'
143 are printed simply as `#'. The object to be printed is at level 0,
144 and if the object is a list or vector, its top-level components are at
146 :type
'(choice (const nil
) integer
)
150 (defcustom print-circle nil
151 "*Controls the printing of recursive structures.
153 If nil, printing proceeds recursively and may lead to
154 `max-lisp-eval-depth' being exceeded or an error may occur:
155 \"Apparently circular structure being printed.\" Also see
156 `print-length' and `print-level'.
158 If non-nil, shared substructures anywhere in the structure are printed
159 with `#N=' before the first occurrence (in the order of the print
160 representation) and `#N#' in place of each subsequent occurrence,
161 where N is a positive decimal integer.
163 There is no way to read this representation in standard Emacs,
164 but if you need to do so, try the cl-read.el package."
169 (defcustom custom-print-vectors nil
170 "*Non-nil if printing of vectors should obey print-level and print-length.
172 For Emacs 18, setting print-level, or adding custom print list or
173 vector handling will make this happen anyway. Emacs 19 obeys
174 print-level, but not for vectors."
180 ;;==========================================================
182 (defvar custom-printers nil
183 ;; e.g. '((symbolp . pkg::print-symbol))
184 "An alist for custom printing of any type.
185 Pairs are of the form (PREDICATE . PRINTER). If PREDICATE is true
186 for an object, then PRINTER is called with the object.
187 PRINTER should print to `standard-output' using cust-print-original-princ
188 if the standard printer is sufficient, or cust-print-prin for complex things.
189 The PRINTER should return the object being printed.
191 Don't modify this variable directly. Use `add-custom-printer' and
192 `delete-custom-printer'")
193 ;; Should cust-print-original-princ and cust-print-prin be exported symbols?
194 ;; Or should the standard printers functions be replaced by
195 ;; CP ones in Emacs Lisp so that CP internal functions need not be called?
197 (defun add-custom-printer (pred printer
)
198 "Add a pair of PREDICATE and PRINTER to `custom-printers'.
199 Any pair that has the same PREDICATE is first removed."
200 (setq custom-printers
(cons (cons pred printer
)
201 (delq (assq pred custom-printers
)
203 ;; Rather than updating here, we could wait until cust-print-top-level is called.
204 (cust-print-update-custom-printers))
206 (defun delete-custom-printer (pred)
207 "Delete the custom printer associated with PREDICATE."
208 (setq custom-printers
(delq (assq pred custom-printers
)
210 (cust-print-update-custom-printers))
213 (defun cust-print-use-custom-printer (object)
214 ;; Default function returns nil.
217 (defun cust-print-update-custom-printers ()
218 ;; Modify the definition of cust-print-use-custom-printer
219 (defalias 'cust-print-use-custom-printer
220 ;; We don't really want to require the byte-compiler.
226 `((,(car pair
) object
)
227 (,(cdr pair
) object
))))
229 ;; Otherwise return nil.
236 ;; Saving and restoring emacs printing routines.
237 ;;====================================================
239 (defun cust-print-set-function-cell (symbol-pair)
240 (defalias (car symbol-pair
)
241 (symbol-function (car (cdr symbol-pair
)))))
243 (defun cust-print-original-princ (object &optional stream
)) ; dummy def
245 ;; Save emacs routines.
246 (if (not (fboundp 'cust-print-original-prin1
))
247 (mapc 'cust-print-set-function-cell
248 '((cust-print-original-prin1 prin1
)
249 (cust-print-original-princ princ
)
250 (cust-print-original-print print
)
251 (cust-print-original-prin1-to-string prin1-to-string
)
252 (cust-print-original-format format
)
253 (cust-print-original-message message
)
254 (cust-print-original-error error
))))
257 (defun custom-print-install ()
258 "Replace print functions with general, customizable, Lisp versions.
259 The Emacs subroutines are saved away, and you can reinstall them
260 by running `custom-print-uninstall'."
262 (mapc 'cust-print-set-function-cell
263 '((prin1 custom-prin1
)
266 (prin1-to-string custom-prin1-to-string
)
267 (format custom-format
)
268 (message custom-message
)
273 (defun custom-print-uninstall ()
274 "Reset print functions to their Emacs subroutines."
276 (mapc 'cust-print-set-function-cell
277 '((prin1 cust-print-original-prin1
)
278 (princ cust-print-original-princ
)
279 (print cust-print-original-print
)
280 (prin1-to-string cust-print-original-prin1-to-string
)
281 (format cust-print-original-format
)
282 (message cust-print-original-message
)
283 (error cust-print-original-error
)
287 (defalias 'custom-print-funcs-installed-p
'custom-print-installed-p
)
288 (defun custom-print-installed-p ()
289 "Return t if custom-print is currently installed, nil otherwise."
290 (eq (symbol-function 'custom-prin1
) (symbol-function 'prin1
)))
292 (put 'with-custom-print-funcs
'edebug-form-spec
'(body))
293 (put 'with-custom-print
'edebug-form-spec
'(body))
295 (defalias 'with-custom-print-funcs
'with-custom-print
)
296 (defmacro with-custom-print
(&rest body
)
297 "Temporarily install the custom print package while executing BODY."
300 (custom-print-install)
302 (custom-print-uninstall)))
305 ;; Lisp replacements for prin1 and princ, and for some subrs that use them
306 ;;===============================================================
307 ;; - so far only the printing and formatting subrs.
309 (defun custom-prin1 (object &optional stream
)
310 "Output the printed representation of OBJECT, any Lisp object.
311 Quoting characters are printed when needed to make output that `read'
312 can handle, whenever this is possible.
313 Output stream is STREAM, or value of `standard-output' (which see).
315 This is the custom-print replacement for the standard `prin1'. It
316 uses the appropriate printer depending on the values of `print-level'
317 and `print-circle' (which see)."
318 (cust-print-top-level object stream
'cust-print-original-prin1
))
321 (defun custom-princ (object &optional stream
)
322 "Output the printed representation of OBJECT, any Lisp object.
323 No quoting characters are used; no delimiters are printed around
324 the contents of strings.
325 Output stream is STREAM, or value of `standard-output' (which see).
327 This is the custom-print replacement for the standard `princ'."
328 (cust-print-top-level object stream
'cust-print-original-princ
))
331 (defun custom-prin1-to-string (object &optional noescape
)
332 "Return a string containing the printed representation of OBJECT,
333 any Lisp object. Quoting characters are used when needed to make output
334 that `read' can handle, whenever this is possible, unless the optional
335 second argument NOESCAPE is non-nil.
337 This is the custom-print replacement for the standard `prin1-to-string'."
338 (let ((buf (get-buffer-create " *custom-print-temp*")))
339 ;; We must erase the buffer before printing in case an error
340 ;; occurred during the last prin1-to-string and we are in debugger.
344 ;; We must be in the current-buffer when the print occurs.
346 (custom-princ object buf
)
347 (custom-prin1 object buf
))
351 ;; We could erase the buffer again, but why bother?
355 (defun custom-print (object &optional stream
)
356 "Output the printed representation of OBJECT, with newlines around it.
357 Quoting characters are printed when needed to make output that `read'
358 can handle, whenever this is possible.
359 Output stream is STREAM, or value of `standard-output' (which see).
361 This is the custom-print replacement for the standard `print'."
362 (cust-print-original-princ "\n" stream
)
363 (custom-prin1 object stream
)
364 (cust-print-original-princ "\n" stream
))
367 (defun custom-format (fmt &rest args
)
368 "Format a string out of a control-string and arguments.
369 The first argument is a control string. It, and subsequent arguments
370 substituted into it, become the value, which is a string.
371 It may contain %s or %d or %c to substitute successive following arguments.
372 %s means print an argument as a string, %d means print as number in decimal,
373 %c means print a number as a single character.
374 The argument used by %s must be a string or a symbol;
375 the argument used by %d, %b, %o, %x or %c must be a number.
377 This is the custom-print replacement for the standard `format'. It
378 calls the Emacs `format' after first making strings for list,
379 vector, or symbol args. The format specification for such args should
380 be `%s' in any case, so a string argument will also work. The string
381 is generated with `custom-prin1-to-string', which quotes quotable
383 (apply 'cust-print-original-format fmt
384 (mapcar (function (lambda (arg)
385 (if (or (listp arg
) (vectorp arg
) (symbolp arg
))
386 (custom-prin1-to-string arg
)
391 (defun custom-message (fmt &rest args
)
392 "Print a one-line message at the bottom of the screen.
393 The first argument is a control string.
394 It may contain %s or %d or %c to print successive following arguments.
395 %s means print an argument as a string, %d means print as number in decimal,
396 %c means print a number as a single character.
397 The argument used by %s must be a string or a symbol;
398 the argument used by %d or %c must be a number.
400 This is the custom-print replacement for the standard `message'.
401 See `custom-format' for the details."
402 ;; It doesn't work to princ the result of custom-format as in:
403 ;; (cust-print-original-princ (apply 'custom-format fmt args))
404 ;; because the echo area requires special handling
405 ;; to avoid duplicating the output.
406 ;; cust-print-original-message does it right.
407 (apply 'cust-print-original-message fmt
408 (mapcar (function (lambda (arg)
409 (if (or (listp arg
) (vectorp arg
) (symbolp arg
))
410 (custom-prin1-to-string arg
)
415 (defun custom-error (fmt &rest args
)
416 "Signal an error, making error message by passing all args to `format'.
418 This is the custom-print replacement for the standard `error'.
419 See `custom-format' for the details."
420 (signal 'error
(list (apply 'custom-format fmt args
))))
424 ;; Support for custom prin1 and princ
425 ;;=========================================
427 ;; Defs to quiet byte-compiler.
428 (defvar circle-table
)
429 (defvar cust-print-current-level
)
431 (defun cust-print-original-printer (object)) ; One of the standard printers.
432 (defun cust-print-low-level-prin (object)) ; Used internally.
433 (defun cust-print-prin (object)) ; Call this to print recursively.
435 (defun cust-print-top-level (object stream emacs-printer
)
436 ;; Set up for printing.
437 (let ((standard-output (or stream standard-output
))
438 ;; circle-table will be non-nil if anything is circular.
439 (circle-table (and print-circle
440 (cust-print-preprocess-circle-tree object
)))
441 (cust-print-current-level (or print-level -
1)))
443 (defalias 'cust-print-original-printer emacs-printer
)
444 (defalias 'cust-print-low-level-prin
448 print-level
; comment out for version 19
449 ;; Emacs doesn't use print-level or print-length
450 ;; for vectors, but custom-print can.
451 (if custom-print-vectors
452 (or print-level print-length
)))
453 'cust-print-print-object
)
454 (t 'cust-print-original-printer
)))
455 (defalias 'cust-print-prin
456 (if circle-table
'cust-print-print-circular
'cust-print-low-level-prin
))
458 (cust-print-prin object
)
462 (defun cust-print-print-object (object)
463 ;; Test object type and print accordingly.
464 ;; Could be called as either cust-print-low-level-prin or cust-print-prin.
466 ((null object
) (cust-print-original-printer object
))
467 ((cust-print-use-custom-printer object
) object
)
468 ((consp object
) (cust-print-list object
))
469 ((vectorp object
) (cust-print-vector object
))
470 ;; All other types, just print.
471 (t (cust-print-original-printer object
))))
474 (defun cust-print-print-circular (object)
475 ;; Printer for `prin1' and `princ' that handles circular structures.
476 ;; If OBJECT appears multiply, and has not yet been printed,
477 ;; prefix with label; if it has been printed, use `#N#' instead.
478 ;; Otherwise, print normally.
479 (let ((tag (assq object circle-table
)))
481 (let ((id (cdr tag
)))
484 ;; Already printed, so just print id.
485 (cust-print-original-princ "#")
486 (cust-print-original-princ id
)
487 (cust-print-original-princ "#"))
488 ;; Not printed yet, so label with id and print object.
489 (setcdr tag
(- id
)) ; mark it as printed
490 (cust-print-original-princ "#")
491 (cust-print-original-princ (- id
))
492 (cust-print-original-princ "=")
493 (cust-print-low-level-prin object
)
495 ;; Not repeated in structure.
496 (cust-print-low-level-prin object
))))
499 ;;================================================
500 ;; List and vector processing for print functions.
502 (defun cust-print-list (list)
503 ;; Print a list using print-length, print-level, and print-circle.
504 (if (= cust-print-current-level
0)
505 (cust-print-original-princ "#")
506 (let ((cust-print-current-level (1- cust-print-current-level
)))
507 (cust-print-original-princ "(")
508 (let ((length (or print-length
0)))
510 ;; Print the first element always (even if length = 0).
511 (cust-print-prin (car list
))
512 (setq list
(cdr list
))
513 (if list
(cust-print-original-princ " "))
514 (setq length
(1- length
))
516 ;; Print the rest of the elements.
517 (while (and list
(/= 0 length
))
518 (if (and (listp list
)
519 (not (assq list circle-table
)))
521 (cust-print-prin (car list
))
522 (setq list
(cdr list
)))
524 ;; cdr is not a list, or it is in circle-table.
525 (cust-print-original-princ ". ")
526 (cust-print-prin list
)
529 (setq length
(1- length
))
530 (if list
(cust-print-original-princ " ")))
532 (if (and list
(= length
0)) (cust-print-original-princ "..."))
533 (cust-print-original-princ ")"))))
537 (defun cust-print-vector (vector)
538 ;; Print a vector according to print-length, print-level, and print-circle.
539 (if (= cust-print-current-level
0)
540 (cust-print-original-princ "#")
541 (let ((cust-print-current-level (1- cust-print-current-level
))
543 (len (length vector
)))
544 (cust-print-original-princ "[")
547 (setq len
(min print-length len
)))
548 ;; Print the elements
550 (cust-print-prin (aref vector i
))
552 (if (< i
(length vector
)) (cust-print-original-princ " ")))
554 (if (< i
(length vector
)) (cust-print-original-princ "..."))
555 (cust-print-original-princ "]")
561 ;; Circular structure preprocessing
562 ;;==================================
564 (defun cust-print-preprocess-circle-tree (object)
565 ;; Fill up the table.
566 (let (;; Table of tags for each object in an object to be printed.
567 ;; A tag is of the form:
568 ;; ( <object> <nil-t-or-id-number> )
569 ;; The id-number is generated after the entire table has been computed.
570 ;; During walk through, the real circle-table lives in the cdr so we
571 ;; can use setcdr to add new elements instead of having to setq the
572 ;; variable sometimes (poor man's locf).
573 (circle-table (list nil
)))
574 (cust-print-walk-circle-tree object
)
576 ;; Reverse table so it is in the order that the objects will be printed.
577 ;; This pass could be avoided if we always added to the end of the
578 ;; table with setcdr in walk-circle-tree.
579 (setcdr circle-table
(nreverse (cdr circle-table
)))
581 ;; Walk through the table, assigning id-numbers to those
582 ;; objects which will be printed using #N= syntax. Delete those
583 ;; objects which will be printed only once (to speed up assq later).
584 (let ((rest circle-table
)
587 (let ((tag (car (cdr rest
))))
591 (setq rest
(cdr rest
)))
592 ;; Else delete this object.
593 (t (setcdr rest
(cdr (cdr rest
))))))
601 (defun cust-print-walk-circle-tree (object)
602 (let (read-equivalent-p tag
)
604 (setq read-equivalent-p
606 (and (symbolp object
)
607 ;; Check if it is uninterned.
608 (eq object
(intern-soft (symbol-name object
)))))
609 tag
(and (not read-equivalent-p
)
610 (assq object
(cdr circle-table
))))
612 ;; Seen this object already, so note that.
615 ((not read-equivalent-p
)
616 ;; Add a tag for this object.
619 (cdr circle-table
)))))
622 (tag ;; No need to descend since we have already.
626 ;; Walk the car of the list recursively.
627 (cust-print-walk-circle-tree (car object
))
628 ;; But walk the cdr with the above while loop
629 ;; to avoid problems with max-lisp-eval-depth.
630 ;; And it should be faster than recursion.
635 (let ((i (length object
))
638 (cust-print-walk-circle-tree (aref object j
))
639 (setq j
(1+ j
))))))))))
643 ;;=======================================
647 ;; Create some circular structures.
648 (setq circ-sym
(let ((x (make-symbol "FOO"))) (list x x
)))
649 (setq circ-list
(list 'a
'b
(vector 1 2 3 4) 'd
'e
'f
))
650 (setcar (nthcdr 3 circ-list
) circ-list
)
651 (aset (nth 2 circ-list
) 2 circ-list
)
652 (setq dotted-circ-list
(list 'a
'b
'c
))
653 (setcdr (cdr (cdr dotted-circ-list
)) dotted-circ-list
)
654 (setq circ-vector
(vector 1 2 3 4 (list 'a
'b
'c
'd
) 6 7))
655 (aset circ-vector
5 (make-symbol "-gensym-"))
656 (setcar (cdr (aref circ-vector
4)) (aref circ-vector
5))
659 (install-custom-print)
660 ;; (setq print-circle t)
662 (let ((print-circle t
))
663 (or (equal (prin1-to-string circ-list
) "#1=(a b [1 2 #1# 4] #1# e f)")
664 (error "circular object with array printing")))
666 (let ((print-circle t
))
667 (or (equal (prin1-to-string dotted-circ-list
) "#1=(a b c . #1#)")
668 (error "circular object with array printing")))
670 (let* ((print-circle t
)
672 (y (list (list 'a
'b
) x
'foo x
)))
673 (setcdr (cdr (cdr (cdr y
))) (cdr y
))
674 (or (equal (prin1-to-string y
) "((a b) . #1=(#2=(p q) foo #2# . #1#))"
676 (error "circular list example from CL manual")))
678 (let ((print-circle nil
))
679 ;; cl-packages.el is required to print uninterned symbols like #:FOO.
680 ;; (require 'cl-packages)
681 (or (equal (prin1-to-string circ-sym
) "(#:FOO #:FOO)")
682 (error "uninterned symbols in list")))
683 (let ((print-circle t
))
684 (or (equal (prin1-to-string circ-sym
) "(#1=FOO #1#)")
685 (error "circular uninterned symbols in list")))
687 (uninstall-custom-print)
690 (provide 'cust-print
)
692 ;;; arch-tag: 3a5a8650-622c-48c4-87d8-e01bf72ec580
693 ;;; cust-print.el ends here