1 ;;; saveplace.el --- automatically save place in files
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5 ;; Author: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
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27 ;; Automatically save place in files, so that visiting them later
28 ;; (even during a different Emacs session) automatically moves point
29 ;; to the saved position, when the file is first found. Uses the
30 ;; value of buffer-local variable save-place to determine whether to
31 ;; save position or not.
33 ;; Thanks to Stefan Schoef, who sent a patch with the
34 ;; `save-place-version-control' stuff in it.
38 ;; this is what I was using during testing:
39 ;; (define-key ctl-x-map "p" 'toggle-save-place-globally)
41 (defgroup save-place nil
42 "Automatically save place in files."
46 (defvar save-place-alist nil
47 "Alist of saved places to go back to when revisiting files.
48 Each element looks like (FILENAME . POSITION);
49 visiting file FILENAME goes automatically to position POSITION
50 rather than the beginning of the buffer.
51 This alist is saved between Emacs sessions.")
53 (defcustom save-place nil
54 "Non-nil means automatically save place in each file.
55 This means when you visit a file, point goes to the last place
56 where it was when you previously visited the same file.
57 This variable is automatically buffer-local.
59 If you wish your place in any file to always be automatically
60 saved, set this to t using the Customize facility, or put the
61 following code in your init file:
63 \(setq-default save-place t)
64 \(require 'saveplace)"
69 (make-variable-buffer-local 'save-place
)
71 (defcustom save-place-file
(locate-user-emacs-file "places" ".emacs-places")
72 "Name of the file that records `save-place-alist' value."
76 (defcustom save-place-version-control nil
77 "Controls whether to make numbered backups of master save-place file.
78 It can have four values: t, nil, `never', and `nospecial'. The first
79 three have the same meaning that they do for the variable
80 `version-control', and the final value `nospecial' means just use the
81 value of `version-control'."
82 :type
'(radio (const :tag
"Unconditionally" t
)
83 (const :tag
"For VC Files" nil
)
85 (const :tag
"Use value of `version-control'" nospecial
))
88 (defvar save-place-loaded nil
89 "Non-nil means that the `save-place-file' has been loaded.")
91 (defcustom save-place-limit
400
92 "Maximum number of entries to retain in the list; nil means no limit."
93 :version
"24.1" ; nil -> 400
94 :type
'(choice (integer :tag
"Entries" :value
1)
95 (const :tag
"No Limit" nil
))
98 (defcustom save-place-forget-unreadable-files t
99 "Non-nil means forget place in unreadable files.
101 The filenames in `save-place-alist' that do not match
102 `save-place-skip-check-regexp' are filtered through
103 `file-readable-p'. if nil, their alist entries are removed.
105 You may do this anytime by calling the complementary function,
106 `save-place-forget-unreadable-files'. When this option is turned on,
107 this happens automatically before saving `save-place-alist' to
109 :type
'boolean
:group
'save-place
)
111 (defcustom save-place-save-skipped t
112 "If non-nil, remember files matching `save-place-skip-check-regexp'.
114 When filtering `save-place-alist' for unreadable files, some will not
115 be checked, based on said regexp, and instead saved or forgotten based
117 :type
'boolean
:group
'save-place
)
119 (defcustom save-place-skip-check-regexp
120 ;; thanks to ange-ftp-name-format
121 "\\`/\\(?:cdrom\\|floppy\\|mnt\\|\\(?:[^@/:]*@\\)?[^@/:]*[^@/:.]:\\)"
122 "Regexp whose file names shall not be checked for readability.
124 When forgetting unreadable files, file names matching this regular
125 expression shall not be checked for readability, but instead be
126 subject to `save-place-save-skipped'.
128 Files for which such a check may be inconvenient include those on
129 removable and network volumes."
130 :type
'regexp
:group
'save-place
)
132 (defcustom save-place-ignore-files-regexp
133 "\\(?:COMMIT_EDITMSG\\|hg-editor-[[:alnum:]]+\\.txt\\|svn-commit\\.tmp\\|bzr_log\\.[[:alnum:]]+\\)$"
134 "Regexp matching files for which no position should be recorded.
135 Useful for temporary file such as commit message files that are
136 automatically created by the VCS. If set to nil, this feature is
137 disabled, i.e., the position is recorded for all files."
139 :type
'regexp
:group
'save-place
)
141 (defun toggle-save-place (&optional parg
)
142 "Toggle whether to save your place in this file between sessions.
143 If this mode is enabled, point is recorded when you kill the buffer
144 or exit Emacs. Visiting this file again will go to that position,
145 even in a later Emacs session.
147 If called with a prefix arg, the mode is enabled if and only if
148 the argument is positive.
150 To save places automatically in all files, put this in your init
153 \(setq-default save-place t\)"
155 (if (not buffer-file-name
)
156 (message "Buffer `%s' not visiting a file" (buffer-name))
157 (if (and save-place
(or (not parg
) (<= parg
0)))
159 (message "No place will be saved in this file")
160 (setq save-place nil
))
161 (message "Place will be saved")
162 (setq save-place t
))))
164 (defun save-place-to-alist ()
165 ;; put filename and point in a cons box and then cons that onto the
166 ;; front of the save-place-alist, if save-place is non-nil.
167 ;; Otherwise, just delete that file from the alist.
168 ;; first check to make sure alist has been loaded in from the master
169 ;; file. If not, do so, then feel free to modify the alist. It
170 ;; will be saved again when Emacs is killed.
171 (or save-place-loaded
(load-save-place-alist-from-file))
172 (let ((item (or buffer-file-name
173 (and dired-directory
(expand-file-name dired-directory
)))))
175 (or (not save-place-ignore-files-regexp
)
176 (not (string-match save-place-ignore-files-regexp
178 (let ((cell (assoc item save-place-alist
))
179 (position (if (not (eq major-mode
'hexl-mode
))
182 (1+ (hexl-current-address))))))
184 (setq save-place-alist
(delq cell save-place-alist
)))
186 (not (= position
1))) ;; Optimize out the degenerate case.
187 (setq save-place-alist
188 (cons (cons item position
)
189 save-place-alist
)))))))
191 (defun save-place-forget-unreadable-files ()
192 "Remove unreadable files from `save-place-alist'.
193 For each entry in the alist, if `file-readable-p' returns nil for the
194 filename, remove the entry. Save the new alist \(as the first pair
195 may have changed\) back to `save-place-alist'."
197 ;; the following was adapted from an in-place filtering function,
198 ;; `filter-mod', used in the original.
199 (unless (null save-place-alist
) ;says it better than `when'
200 ;; first, check all except first
201 (let ((fmprev save-place-alist
) (fmcur (cdr save-place-alist
)))
202 (while fmcur
;not null
203 ;; a value is only saved when it becomes FMPREV.
204 (if (if (string-match save-place-skip-check-regexp
(caar fmcur
))
205 save-place-save-skipped
206 (file-readable-p (caar fmcur
)))
208 (setcdr fmprev
(cdr fmcur
)))
209 (setq fmcur
(cdr fmcur
))))
210 ;; test first pair, keep it if OK, otherwise 2nd element, which
212 (unless (if (string-match save-place-skip-check-regexp
213 (caar save-place-alist
))
214 save-place-save-skipped
215 (file-readable-p (caar save-place-alist
)))
216 (setq save-place-alist
(cdr save-place-alist
)))))
218 (defun save-place-alist-to-file ()
219 (let ((file (expand-file-name save-place-file
))
220 (coding-system-for-write 'utf-8
))
221 (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Saved Places*")
222 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
223 (when save-place-forget-unreadable-files
224 (save-place-forget-unreadable-files))
225 (insert (format ";;; -*- coding: %s -*-\n"
226 (symbol-name coding-system-for-write
)))
227 (let ((print-length nil
)
229 (pp save-place-alist
(current-buffer)))
230 (let ((version-control
232 ((null save-place-version-control
) nil
)
233 ((eq 'never save-place-version-control
) 'never
)
234 ((eq 'nospecial save-place-version-control
) version-control
)
238 ;; Don't use write-file; we don't want this buffer to visit it.
239 (write-region (point-min) (point-max) file
)
240 (file-error (message "Saving places: can't write %s" file
)))
241 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))))
243 (defun load-save-place-alist-from-file ()
244 (if (not save-place-loaded
)
246 (setq save-place-loaded t
)
247 (let ((file (expand-file-name save-place-file
)))
248 ;; make sure that the alist does not get overwritten, and then
249 ;; load it if it exists:
250 (if (file-readable-p file
)
251 ;; don't want to use find-file because we have been
252 ;; adding hooks to it.
253 (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Saved Places*")
254 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
255 (insert-file-contents file
)
256 (goto-char (point-min))
257 (setq save-place-alist
258 (with-demoted-errors "Error reading save-place-file: %S"
259 (car (read-from-string
260 (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))))))
262 ;; If there is a limit, and we're over it, then we'll
263 ;; have to truncate the end of the list:
265 (if (<= save-place-limit
0)
266 ;; Zero gets special cased. I'm not thrilled
267 ;; with this, but the loop for >= 1 is tight.
268 (setq save-place-alist nil
)
269 ;; Else the limit is >= 1, so enforce it by
270 ;; counting and then `setcdr'ing.
271 (let ((s save-place-alist
)
274 (if (>= count save-place-limit
)
276 (setq count
(1+ count
)))
279 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
282 (defun save-places-to-alist ()
283 ;; go through buffer-list, saving places to alist if save-place is
284 ;; non-nil, deleting them from alist if it is nil.
285 (let ((buf-list (buffer-list)))
287 ;; put this into a save-excursion in case someone is counting on
288 ;; another function in kill-emacs-hook to act on the last buffer
290 (with-current-buffer (car buf-list
)
291 ;; save-place checks buffer-file-name too, but we can avoid
292 ;; overhead of function call by checking here too.
293 (and buffer-file-name
(save-place-to-alist))
294 (setq buf-list
(cdr buf-list
))))))
296 (defun save-place-find-file-hook ()
297 (or save-place-loaded
(load-save-place-alist-from-file))
298 (let ((cell (assoc buffer-file-name save-place-alist
)))
301 (or revert-buffer-in-progress-p
302 (goto-char (cdr cell
)))
303 ;; and make sure it will be saved again for later
304 (setq save-place t
)))))
306 (defun save-place-dired-hook ()
307 "Position the point in a dired buffer."
308 (or save-place-loaded
(load-save-place-alist-from-file))
309 (let ((cell (assoc (expand-file-name dired-directory
) save-place-alist
)))
312 (or revert-buffer-in-progress-p
313 (goto-char (cdr cell
)))
314 ;; and make sure it will be saved again for later
315 (setq save-place t
)))))
317 (defun save-place-kill-emacs-hook ()
318 ;; First update the alist. This loads the old save-place-file if nec.
319 (save-places-to-alist)
320 ;; Now save the alist in the file, if we have ever loaded the file
321 ;; (including just now).
322 (if save-place-loaded
323 (save-place-alist-to-file)))
325 (add-hook 'find-file-hook
'save-place-find-file-hook t
)
327 (add-hook 'dired-initial-point-hook
'save-place-dired-hook
)
328 (unless noninteractive
329 (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook
'save-place-kill-emacs-hook
))
331 (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook
'save-place-to-alist
)
333 (provide 'saveplace
) ; why not...
335 ;;; saveplace.el ends here