1 ;;; hi-lock.el --- Minor mode for interactive automatic highlighting.
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: David M. Koppelman, koppel@ee.lsu.edu
6 ;; Keywords: faces, minor-mode, matching, display
8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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23 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
27 ;; With the hi-lock commands text matching interactively entered
28 ;; regexp's can be highlighted. For example, `M-x highlight-regexp
29 ;; RET clearly RET RET' will highlight all occurrences of `clearly'
30 ;; using a yellow background face. New occurrences of `clearly' will
31 ;; be highlighted as they are typed. `M-x unhighlight-regexp RET'
32 ;; will remove the highlighting. Any existing face can be used for
33 ;; highlighting and a set of appropriate faces is provided. The
34 ;; regexps can be written into the current buffer in a form that will
35 ;; be recognized the next time the corresponding file is read.
39 ;; In program source code highlight a variable to quickly see all
40 ;; places it is modified or referenced:
41 ;; M-x highlight-regexp ground_contact_switches_closed RET RET
43 ;; In a shell or other buffer that is showing lots of program
44 ;; output, highlight the parts of the output you're interested in:
45 ;; M-x highlight-regexp Total execution time [0-9]+ RET hi-blue-b RET
47 ;; In buffers displaying tables, highlight the lines you're interested in:
48 ;; M-x highlight-lines-matching-regexp January 2000 RET hi-black-b RET
50 ;; When writing text, highlight personal cliches. This can be
52 ;; M-x highlight-regexp as can be seen RET RET
56 ;; Put the following code in your .emacs file. This turns on
57 ;; hi-lock mode and adds an "Automatic Highlighting" entry
62 ;; You might also want to bind the hi-lock commands to more
63 ;; finger-friendly sequences:
65 ;; (define-key hi-lock-map "\C-z\C-h" 'highlight-lines-matching-regexp)
66 ;; (define-key hi-lock-map "\C-zi" 'hi-lock-find-patterns)
67 ;; (define-key hi-lock-map "\C-zh" 'highlight-regexp)
68 ;; (define-key hi-lock-map "\C-zr" 'unhighlight-regexp)
69 ;; (define-key hi-lock-map "\C-zb" 'hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns))
71 ;; See the documentation for hi-lock-mode `C-h f hi-lock-mode' for
72 ;; additional instructions.
74 ;; Sample file patterns:
76 ; Hi-lock: (("^;;; .*" (0 (quote hi-black-hb) t)))
77 ; Hi-lock: ( ("make-variable-buffer-\\(local\\)" (0 font-lock-keyword-face)(1 'italic append)))))
86 (defgroup hi-lock-interactive-text-highlighting nil
87 "Interactively add and remove font-lock patterns for highlighting text."
91 (defcustom hi-lock-mode nil
92 "Toggle hi-lock, for interactively adding font-lock text-highlighting patterns."
93 :set
(lambda (symbol value
)
94 (hi-lock-mode (or value
0)))
95 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
97 :group
'hi-lock-interactive-text-highlighting
100 (defcustom hi-lock-file-patterns-range
10000
101 "Limit of search in a buffer for hi-lock patterns.
102 When a file is visited and hi-lock mode is on patterns starting
103 up to this limit are added to font-lock's patterns. See documentation
104 of functions `hi-lock-mode' and `hi-lock-find-patterns'."
106 :group
'hi-lock-interactive-text-highlighting
)
108 (defcustom hi-lock-exclude-modes
109 '(rmail-mode mime
/viewer-mode gnus-article-mode
)
110 "List of major modes in which hi-lock will not run.
111 For security reasons since font lock patterns can specify function
114 :group
'hi-lock-interactive-text-highlighting
)
117 (defgroup hi-lock-faces nil
119 :group
'hi-lock-interactive-text-highlighting
)
122 '((((background dark
)) (:background
"yellow" :foreground
"black"))
123 (t (:background
"yellow")))
124 "Default face for hi-lock mode."
125 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
128 '(((background dark
) (:background
"pink" :foreground
"black"))
129 (t (:background
"pink")))
130 "Face for hi-lock mode."
131 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
134 '(((background dark
) (:background
"green" :foreground
"black"))
135 (t (:background
"green")))
136 "Face for hi-lock mode."
137 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
140 '(((background dark
) (:background
"light blue" :foreground
"black"))
141 (t (:background
"light blue")))
142 "Face for hi-lock mode."
143 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
146 '((t (:weight bold
)))
147 "Face for hi-lock mode."
148 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
151 '((t (:weight bold
:foreground
"blue")))
152 "Face for hi-lock mode."
153 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
156 '((t (:weight bold
:foreground
"green")))
157 "Face for hi-lock mode."
158 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
161 '((t (:weight bold
:foreground
"red")))
162 "Face for hi-lock mode."
163 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
166 '((t (:weight bold
:family
"helv" :height
200)))
167 "Face for hi-lock mode."
168 :group
'hi-lock-faces
)
170 (defvar hi-lock-file-patterns nil
171 "Patterns found in file for hi-lock. Should not be changed.")
173 (defvar hi-lock-interactive-patterns nil
174 "Patterns provided to hi-lock by user. Should not be changed.")
176 (defvar hi-lock-face-history
177 (list "hi-yellow" "hi-pink" "hi-green" "hi-blue" "hi-black-b"
178 "hi-blue-b" "hi-red-b" "hi-green-b" "hi-black-hb")
179 "History list of faces for hi-lock interactive functions.")
181 ;(dolist (f hi-lock-face-history) (unless (facep f) (error "%s not a face" f)))
183 (defvar hi-lock-regexp-history nil
184 "History of regexps used for interactive fontification.")
186 (defvar hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix
"Hi-lock"
187 "Regexp for finding hi-lock patterns at top of file.")
189 (make-variable-buffer-local 'hi-lock-interactive-patterns
)
190 (put 'hi-lock-interactive-patterns
'permanent-local t
)
191 (make-variable-buffer-local 'hi-lock-regexp-history
)
192 (put 'hi-lock-regexp-history
'permanent-local t
)
193 (make-variable-buffer-local 'hi-lock-file-patterns
)
194 (put 'hi-lock-file-patterns
'permanent-local t
)
196 (defvar hi-lock-menu
(make-sparse-keymap "Hi Lock")
197 "Menu for hi-lock mode.")
199 (define-key-after hi-lock-menu
[highlight-regexp
]
200 '(menu-item "Highlight Regexp..." highlight-regexp
201 :help
"Highlight text matching PATTERN (a regexp)."))
203 (define-key-after hi-lock-menu
[highlight-lines-matching-regexp
]
204 '(menu-item "Highlight Lines..." highlight-lines-matching-regexp
205 :help
"Highlight lines containing match of PATTERN (a regexp).."))
207 (define-key-after hi-lock-menu
[unhighlight-regexp
]
208 '(menu-item "Remove Highlighting..." unhighlight-regexp
209 :help
"Remove previously entered highlighting pattern."
210 :enable hi-lock-interactive-patterns
))
212 (define-key-after hi-lock-menu
[hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns
]
213 '(menu-item "Patterns to Buffer" hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns
214 :help
"Insert interactively added REGEXPs into buffer at point."
215 :enable hi-lock-interactive-patterns
))
217 (define-key-after hi-lock-menu
[hi-lock-find-patterns
]
218 '(menu-item "Patterns from Buffer" hi-lock-find-patterns
219 :help
"Use patterns (if any) near top of buffer."))
221 (defvar hi-lock-map
(make-sparse-keymap "Hi Lock")
222 "Key map for hi-lock.")
224 (define-key hi-lock-map
"\C-xwi" 'hi-lock-find-patterns
)
225 (define-key hi-lock-map
"\C-xwl" 'highlight-lines-matching-regexp
)
226 (define-key hi-lock-map
"\C-xwh" 'highlight-regexp
)
227 (define-key hi-lock-map
"\C-xwr" 'unhighlight-regexp
)
228 (define-key hi-lock-map
"\C-xwb" 'hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns
)
230 (unless (assq 'hi-lock-mode minor-mode-map-alist
)
231 (setq minor-mode-map-alist
(cons (cons 'hi-lock-mode hi-lock-map
)
232 minor-mode-map-alist
)))
234 (unless (assq 'hi-lock-mode minor-mode-alist
)
235 (setq minor-mode-alist
(cons '(hi-lock-mode " H") minor-mode-alist
)))
242 (defun hi-lock-mode (&optional arg
)
243 "Toggle minor mode for interactively adding font-lock highlighting patterns.
245 If ARG positive turn hi-lock on. Issuing a hi-lock command will also
246 turn hi-lock on. When hi-lock turned on an \"Automatic Highlighting\"
247 submenu is added to the \"Edit\" menu. The commands in the submenu,
248 which can be called interactively, are:
250 \\[highlight-regexp] REGEXP FACE
251 Highlight matches of pattern REGEXP in current buffer with FACE.
253 \\[highlight-lines-matching-regexp] REGEXP FACE
254 Highlight lines containing matches of REGEXP in current buffer with FACE.
256 \\[unhighlight-regexp] REGEXP
257 Remove highlighting on matches of REGEXP in current buffer.
259 \\[hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns]
260 Write active REGEXPs into buffer as comments (if possible). They will
261 be read the next time file is loaded or when the \\[hi-lock-find-patterns] command
262 is issued. The inserted regexps are in the form of font lock keywords.
263 (See `font-lock-keywords') They may be edited and re-loaded with \\[hi-lock-find-patterns],
264 any valid `font-lock-keywords' form is acceptable.
266 \\[hi-lock-find-patterns]
267 Re-read patterns stored in buffer (in the format produced by \\[hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns]).
269 When hi-lock is started and if the mode is not excluded, the
270 beginning of the buffer is searched for lines of the form:
272 where FOO is a list of patterns. These are added to the font lock keywords
273 already present. The patterns must start before position (number
274 of characters into buffer) `hi-lock-file-patterns-range'. Patterns
277 is found. A mode is excluded if it's in the list `hi-lock-exclude-modes'."
279 (let ((hi-lock-mode-prev hi-lock-mode
))
281 (if (null arg
) (not hi-lock-mode
)
282 (> (prefix-numeric-value arg
) 0)))
284 (when (and (not hi-lock-mode-prev
) hi-lock-mode
)
285 (if (not font-lock-mode
) (turn-on-font-lock))
286 (add-hook 'find-file-hooks
'hi-lock-find-file-hook
)
287 (add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook
'hi-lock-font-lock-hook
)
288 (define-key-after menu-bar-edit-menu
[hi-lock
]
289 (cons "Automatic Highlighting" hi-lock-menu
))
290 (hi-lock-find-patterns))
292 (when (and hi-lock-mode-prev
(not hi-lock-mode
))
293 (font-lock-remove-keywords nil hi-lock-interactive-patterns
)
294 (font-lock-remove-keywords nil hi-lock-file-patterns
)
295 (setq hi-lock-interactive-patterns nil
)
297 (define-key-after menu-bar-edit-menu
[hi-lock
] nil
)
298 (remove-hook 'find-file-hooks
'hi-lock-find-file-hook
)
299 (remove-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook
'hi-lock-font-lock-hook
))))
303 (defalias 'highlight-lines-matching-regexp
'hi-lock-line-face-buffer
)
305 (defun hi-lock-line-face-buffer (regexp &optional face
)
306 "Set face of all lines containing matches of REGEXP to FACE.
308 Interactively, prompt for REGEXP then FACE. Buffer-local history
309 list maintained for regexps, global history maintained for faces.
310 \\<minibuffer-local-map>Use \\[next-history-element] and \\[previous-history-element] to retrieve next or previous history item.
311 (See info node `Minibuffer History')"
315 (read-from-minibuffer "Regexp to highlight line: "
316 (cons (or (car hi-lock-regexp-history
) "") 1 )
317 nil nil
'hi-lock-regexp-history
))
318 (hi-lock-read-face-name)))
319 (unless hi-lock-mode
(hi-lock-mode))
320 (or (facep face
) (setq face
'rwl-yellow
))
322 (list (concat "^.*" regexp
".*$") (list 0 (list 'quote face
) t
))))
325 (defalias 'highlight-regexp
'hi-lock-face-buffer
)
327 (defun hi-lock-face-buffer (regexp &optional face
)
328 "Set face of all matches of REGEXP to FACE.
330 Interactively, prompt for REGEXP then FACE. Buffer-local history
331 list maintained for regexps, global history maintained for faces.
332 \\<minibuffer-local-map>Use \\[next-history-element] and \\[previous-history-element] to retrieve next or previous history item.
333 (See info node `Minibuffer History')"
337 (read-from-minibuffer "Regexp to highlight: "
338 (cons (or (car hi-lock-regexp-history
) "") 1 )
339 nil nil
'hi-lock-regexp-history
))
340 (hi-lock-read-face-name)))
341 (or (facep face
) (setq face
'rwl-yellow
))
342 (unless hi-lock-mode
(hi-lock-mode))
343 (hi-lock-set-pattern (list regexp
(list 0 (list 'quote face
) t
))))
346 (defalias 'unhighlight-regexp
'hi-lock-unface-buffer
)
348 (defun hi-lock-unface-buffer (regexp)
349 "Remove highlighting of matches to REGEXP set by hi-lock.
351 Interactively, prompt for REGEXP. Buffer-local history of inserted
352 regexp's maintained. Will accept only regexps inserted by hi-lock
353 interactive functions. \(See `hi-lock-interactive-patterns'.\)
354 \\<minibuffer-local-must-match-map>Use \\[minibuffer-complete] to complete a partially typed regexp.
355 \(See info node `Minibuffer History'.\)"
357 (if (vectorp (this-command-keys))
364 (cons "Select Pattern to Unhighlight"
365 (mapcar (lambda (pattern)
368 "%s (%s)" (car pattern
)
371 (cdr (car (cdr (car (cdr pattern
))))))))
374 hi-lock-interactive-patterns
))))
375 ;; If the user clicks outside the menu, meaning that they
376 ;; change their mind, x-popup-menu returns nil, and
377 ;; interactive signals a wrong number of arguments error.
378 ;; To prevent that, we return an empty string, which will
379 ;; effectively disable the rest of the function.
380 (throw 'snafu
'(""))))
381 (let ((history-list (mapcar (lambda (p) (car p
))
382 hi-lock-interactive-patterns
)))
383 (unless hi-lock-interactive-patterns
384 (error "No highlighting to remove"))
386 (completing-read "Regexp to unhighlight: "
387 hi-lock-interactive-patterns t t
388 (car (car hi-lock-interactive-patterns
))
389 (cons 'history-list
1))))))
390 (let ((keyword (assoc regexp hi-lock-interactive-patterns
)))
392 (font-lock-remove-keywords nil
(list keyword
))
393 (setq hi-lock-interactive-patterns
394 (delq keyword hi-lock-interactive-patterns
))
395 (hi-lock-refontify))))
398 (defun hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns ()
399 "Write interactively added patterns, if any, into buffer at point.
401 Interactively added patterns are those normally specified using
402 `highlight-regexp' and `highlight-lines-matching-regexp'; they can
403 be found in variable `hi-lock-interactive-patterns'."
405 (let ((prefix (format "%s %s:" (or comment-start
"") "Hi-lock")))
406 (when (> (+ (point) (length prefix
)) hi-lock-file-patterns-range
)
409 "Warning, inserted keywords not close enough to top of file."))
412 (insert (format "%s (%s) %s\n"
413 prefix
(prin1-to-string pattern
) (or comment-end
""))))
414 hi-lock-interactive-patterns
)))
417 ;; Implementation Functions
419 (defun hi-lock-regexp-okay (regexp)
420 "Return REGEXP if it appears suitable for a font-lock pattern.
422 Otherwise signal an error. A pattern that matches the null string is
424 (if (string-match regexp
"")
425 (error "Regexp cannot match an empty string")
428 (defun hi-lock-read-face-name ()
429 "Read face name from minibuffer with completion and history."
430 (intern (completing-read
431 "Highlight using face: "
433 (cons (car hi-lock-face-history
)
436 (substring (car hi-lock-face-history
) 0 1)
437 (mapcar (lambda (f) (cons f f
))
438 hi-lock-face-history
))))
439 (if (and (stringp prefix
)
440 (not (equal prefix
(car hi-lock-face-history
))))
442 '(hi-lock-face-history .
0))))
444 (defun hi-lock-find-file-hook ()
445 "Add hi-lock patterns, if present."
446 (hi-lock-find-patterns))
448 (defun hi-lock-current-line (&optional end
)
449 "Return line number of line at point.
450 Optional argument END is maximum excursion."
454 (1+ (count-lines 1 (or end
(point))))))
456 (defun hi-lock-set-pattern (pattern)
457 "Add PATTERN to list of interactively highlighted patterns and refontify."
458 (hi-lock-set-patterns (list pattern
)))
460 (defun hi-lock-set-patterns (patterns)
461 "Add PATTERNS to list of interactively highlighted patterns and refontify.."
462 (dolist (pattern patterns
)
463 (unless (member pattern hi-lock-interactive-patterns
)
464 (font-lock-add-keywords nil
(list pattern
))
465 (add-to-list 'hi-lock-interactive-patterns pattern
)))
468 (defun hi-lock-set-file-patterns (patterns)
469 "Replace file patterns list with PATTERNS and refontify."
470 (font-lock-remove-keywords nil hi-lock-file-patterns
)
471 (setq hi-lock-file-patterns patterns
)
472 (font-lock-add-keywords nil hi-lock-file-patterns
)
475 (defun hi-lock-refontify ()
476 "Unfontify then refontify buffer. Used when hi-lock patterns change."
478 (font-lock-unfontify-buffer)
480 (jit-lock-mode (jit-lock-fontify-buffer))
481 ;; Need a better way, since this assumes too much about lazy lock.
483 (let ((windows (get-buffer-window-list (current-buffer) 'nomini t
)))
485 (lazy-lock-fontify-window (car windows
))
486 (setq windows
(cdr windows
)))))
487 (t (font-lock-fontify-buffer))))
490 (defun hi-lock-find-patterns ()
491 "Find patterns in current buffer for hi-lock."
493 (unless (memq major-mode hi-lock-exclude-modes
)
494 (let ((all-patterns nil
)
495 (target-regexp (concat "\\<" hi-lock-file-patterns-prefix
":")))
498 (goto-char (point-min))
499 (re-search-forward target-regexp
500 (+ (point) hi-lock-file-patterns-range
) t
)
504 (re-search-forward target-regexp
(+ (point) 100) t
)
505 (not (looking-at "\\s-*end")))
509 (read (current-buffer))
511 (format "Could not read expression at %d"
512 (hi-lock-current-line))) nil
))))
514 (setq all-patterns
(append patterns all-patterns
))))))
515 (if (and (not hi-lock-mode
) all-patterns
)
517 (if hi-lock-mode
(hi-lock-set-file-patterns all-patterns
))
519 (message (format "Hi-lock added %d patterns." (length all-patterns
)))))))
521 (defun hi-lock-font-lock-hook ()
522 "Add hi lock patterns to font-lock's."
524 (font-lock-add-keywords nil hi-lock-file-patterns
)
525 (font-lock-add-keywords nil hi-lock-interactive-patterns
)))
529 ;;; hi-lock.el ends here