1 ;;; repeat.el --- convenient way to repeat the previous command
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
4 ;; 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 ;; Author: Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com>
7 ;; Created: Mo 02 Mar 98
8 ;; Version: 0.51, We 13 May 98
9 ;; Keywords: convenience, vi, repeat
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28 ;; Sometimes the fastest way to get something done is just to lean on a key;
29 ;; moving forward through a series of words by leaning on M-f is an example.
30 ;; But 'forward-page is orthodoxily bound to C-x ], so moving forward through
31 ;; several pages requires
32 ;; Loop until desired page is reached:
33 ;; Hold down control key with left pinkie.
35 ;; Lift left pinkie off control key.
37 ;; This is a pain in the ass.
39 ;; This package defines a command that repeats the preceding command,
40 ;; whatever that was, including its arguments, whatever they were.
41 ;; This command is connected to the key C-x z.
42 ;; To repeat the previous command once, type C-x z.
43 ;; To repeat it a second time immediately after, type just z.
44 ;; By typing z again and again, you can repeat the command over and over.
46 ;; This works correctly inside a keyboard macro as far as recording and
47 ;; playback go, but `edit-kbd-macro' gets it wrong. That shouldn't really
48 ;; matter; if you need to edit something like
49 ;; C-x ] ;; forward-page
51 ;; zz ;; self-insert-command * 2
52 ;; C-x ;; Control-X-prefix
53 ;; you can just kill the bogus final 2 lines, then duplicate the repeat line
54 ;; as many times as it's really needed. Also, `edit-kbd-macro' works
55 ;; correctly if `repeat' is invoked through a rebinding to a single keystroke
56 ;; and the global variable repeat-on-final-keystroke is set to a value
57 ;; that doesn't include that keystroke. For example, the lines
58 ;; (global-set-key "\C-z" 'repeat)
59 ;; (setq repeat-on-final-keystroke "z")
60 ;; in your .emacs would allow `edit-kbd-macro' to work correctly when C-z was
61 ;; used in a keyboard macro to invoke `repeat', but would still allow C-x z
62 ;; to be used for `repeat' elsewhere. The real reason for documenting this
63 ;; isn't that anybody would need it for the `edit-kbd-macro' problem, but
64 ;; that there might be other unexpected ramifications of re-executing on
65 ;; repetitions of the final keystroke, and this shows how to do workarounds.
67 ;; If the preceding command had a prefix argument, that argument is applied
68 ;; to the repeat command, unless the repeat command is given a new prefix
69 ;; argument, in which case it applies that new prefix argument to the
70 ;; preceding command. This means a key sequence like C-u - C-x C-t can be
71 ;; repeated. (It shoves the preceding line upward in the buffer.)
73 ;; Here are some other key sequences with which repeat might be useful:
74 ;; C-u - C-t [shove preceding character backward in line]
75 ;; C-u - M-t [shove preceding word backward in sentence]
76 ;; C-x ^ enlarge-window [one line] (assuming frame has > 1 window)
77 ;; C-u - C-x ^ [shrink window one line]
79 ;; C-u - C-x ` [previous error]
80 ;; C-x DEL backward-kill-sentence
81 ;; C-x e call-last-kbd-macro
82 ;; C-x r i insert-register
83 ;; C-x r t string-rectangle
84 ;; C-x TAB indent-rigidly [one character]
85 ;; C-u - C-x TAB [outdent rigidly one character]
86 ;; C-x { shrink-window-horizontally
87 ;; C-x } enlarge-window-horizontally
89 ;; This command was first called `vi-dot', because
90 ;; it was inspired by the `.' command in the vi editor,
91 ;; but it was renamed to make its name more meaningful.
95 ;;;;; ************************* USER OPTIONS ************************** ;;;;;
97 (defcustom repeat-too-dangerous
'(kill-this-buffer)
98 "Commands too dangerous to repeat with \\[repeat]."
100 :type
'(repeat function
))
102 ;; If the last command was self-insert-command, the char to be inserted was
103 ;; obtained by that command from last-command-event, which has now been
104 ;; clobbered by the command sequence that invoked `repeat'. We could get it
105 ;; from (recent-keys) & set last-command-event to that, "unclobbering" it, but
106 ;; this has the disadvantage that if the user types a sequence of different
107 ;; chars then invokes repeat, only the final char will be inserted. In vi,
108 ;; the dot command can reinsert the entire most-recently-inserted sequence.
110 (defvar repeat-message-function nil
111 "If non-nil, function used by `repeat' command to say what it's doing.
112 Message is something like \"Repeating command glorp\".
113 To disable such messages, set this variable to `ignore'. To customize
114 display, assign a function that takes one string as an arg and displays
115 it however you want.")
117 (defcustom repeat-on-final-keystroke t
118 "Allow `repeat' to re-execute for repeating lastchar of a key sequence.
119 If this variable is t, `repeat' determines what key sequence
120 it was invoked by, extracts the final character of that sequence, and
121 re-executes as many times as that final character is hit; so for example
122 if `repeat' is bound to C-x z, typing C-x z z z repeats the previous command
123 3 times. If this variable is a sequence of characters, then re-execution
124 only occurs if the final character by which `repeat' was invoked is a
125 member of that sequence. If this variable is nil, no re-execution occurs."
129 ;;;;; ****************** HACKS TO THE REST OF EMACS ******************* ;;;;;
131 ;; The basic strategy is to use last-command, a variable built in to Emacs.
132 ;; There are 2 issues that complicate this strategy. The first is that
133 ;; last-command is given a bogus value when any kill command is executed;
134 ;; this is done to make it easy for `yank-pop' to know that it's being invoked
135 ;; after a kill command. The second is that the meaning of the command is
136 ;; often altered by the prefix arg, but although Emacs (19.34) has a
137 ;; builtin prefix-arg specifying the arg for the next command, as well as a
138 ;; builtin current-prefix-arg, it has no builtin last-prefix-arg.
140 ;; There's a builtin (this-command-keys), the return value of which could be
141 ;; executed with (command-execute), but there's no (last-command-keys).
142 ;; Using (last-command-keys) if it existed wouldn't be optimal, however,
143 ;; since it would complicate checking membership in repeat-too-dangerous.
145 ;; It would of course be trivial to implement last-prefix-arg &
146 ;; true-last-command by putting something in post-command-hook, but that
147 ;; entails a performance hit; the approach taken below avoids that.
149 ;; Coping with strings of self-insert commands gets hairy when they interact
150 ;; with auto-filling. Most problems are eliminated by remembering what we're
151 ;; self-inserting, so we only need to get it from the undo information once.
153 ;; With Emacs 22.2 the variable `last-repeatable-command' stores the
154 ;; most recently executed command that was not bound to an input event.
155 ;; `repeat' now repeats that command instead of `real-last-command' to
156 ;; avoid a "... must be bound to an event with parameters" error.
158 (defvar repeat-last-self-insert nil
159 "If last repeated command was `self-insert-command', it inserted this.")
161 ;; That'll require another keystroke count so we know we're in a string of
162 ;; repetitions of self-insert commands:
164 (defvar repeat-num-input-keys-at-self-insert -
1
165 "# key sequences read in Emacs session when `self-insert-command' repeated.")
167 ;;;;; *************** ANALOGOUS HACKS TO `repeat' ITSELF **************** ;;;;;
169 ;; That mechanism of checking num-input-keys to figure out what's really
170 ;; going on can be useful to other commands that need to fine-tune their
171 ;; interaction with repeat. Instead of requiring them to advise repeat, we
172 ;; can just defvar the value they need here, & setq it in the repeat command:
174 (defvar repeat-num-input-keys-at-repeat -
1
175 "# key sequences read in Emacs session when `repeat' last invoked.")
177 ;; Also, we can assign a name to the test for which that variable is
178 ;; intended, which thereby documents here how to use it, & makes code that
179 ;; uses it self-documenting:
181 (defsubst repeat-is-really-this-command
()
182 "Return t if this command is happening because user invoked `repeat'.
183 Usually, when a command is executing, the Emacs builtin variable
184 `this-command' identifies the command the user invoked. Some commands modify
185 that variable on the theory they're doing more good than harm; `repeat' does
186 that, and usually does do more good than harm. However, like all do-gooders,
187 sometimes `repeat' gets surprising results from its altruism. The value of
188 this function is always whether the value of `this-command' would've been
189 'repeat if `repeat' hadn't modified it."
190 (= repeat-num-input-keys-at-repeat num-input-keys
))
192 ;; An example of the use of (repeat-is-really-this-command) may still be
193 ;; available in <http://www.eskimo.com/~seldon/dotemacs.el>; search for
194 ;; "defun wm-switch-buffer".
196 ;;;;; ******************* THE REPEAT COMMAND ITSELF ******************* ;;;;;
198 (defvar repeat-previous-repeated-command nil
199 "The previous repeated command.")
201 ;; The following variable counts repeated self-insertions. The idea is
202 ;; that repeating a self-insertion command and subsequently undoing it
203 ;; should have almost the same effect as if the characters were inserted
204 ;; manually. The basic difference is that we leave in one undo-boundary
205 ;; between the original insertion and its first repetition.
206 (defvar repeat-undo-count nil
207 "Number of self-insertions since last `undo-boundary'.")
210 (defun repeat (repeat-arg)
211 "Repeat most recently executed command.
212 With prefix arg, apply new prefix arg to that command; otherwise,
213 use the prefix arg that was used before (if any).
214 This command is like the `.' command in the vi editor.
216 If this command is invoked by a multi-character key sequence, it
217 can then be repeated by repeating the final character of that
218 sequence. This behavior can be modified by the global variable
219 `repeat-on-final-keystroke'.
221 `repeat' ignores commands bound to input events. Hence the term
222 \"most recently executed command\" shall be read as \"most
223 recently executed command not bound to an input event\"."
224 ;; The most recently executed command could be anything, so surprises could
225 ;; result if it were re-executed in a context where new dynamically
226 ;; localized variables were shadowing global variables in a `let' clause in
227 ;; here. (Remember that GNU Emacs 19 is dynamically localized.)
228 ;; To avoid that, I tried the `lexical-let' of the Common Lisp extensions,
229 ;; but that entails a very noticeable performance hit, so instead I use the
230 ;; "repeat-" prefix, reserved by this package, for *local* variables that
231 ;; might be visible to re-executed commands, including this function's arg.
233 (when (eq last-repeatable-command
'repeat
)
234 (setq last-repeatable-command repeat-previous-repeated-command
))
236 ((null last-repeatable-command
)
237 (error "There is nothing to repeat"))
238 ((eq last-repeatable-command
'mode-exit
)
239 (error "last-repeatable-command is mode-exit & can't be repeated"))
240 ((memq last-repeatable-command repeat-too-dangerous
)
241 (error "Command %S too dangerous to repeat automatically"
242 last-repeatable-command
)))
243 (setq this-command last-repeatable-command
244 repeat-previous-repeated-command last-repeatable-command
245 repeat-num-input-keys-at-repeat num-input-keys
)
246 (when (null repeat-arg
)
247 (setq repeat-arg last-prefix-arg
))
248 ;; Now determine whether to loop on repeated taps of the final character
249 ;; of the key sequence that invoked repeat. The Emacs global
250 ;; last-command-event contains the final character now, but may not still
251 ;; contain it after the previous command is repeated, so the character
252 ;; needs to be saved.
253 (let ((repeat-repeat-char
254 (if (eq repeat-on-final-keystroke t
)
256 ;; allow only specified final keystrokes
257 (car (memq last-command-event
258 (listify-key-sequence
259 repeat-on-final-keystroke
))))))
260 (if (memq last-repeatable-command
'(exit-minibuffer
261 minibuffer-complete-and-exit
262 self-insert-and-exit
))
263 (let ((repeat-command (car command-history
)))
264 (repeat-message "Repeating %S" repeat-command
)
265 (eval repeat-command
))
266 (if (null repeat-arg
)
267 (repeat-message "Repeating command %S" last-repeatable-command
)
268 (setq current-prefix-arg repeat-arg
)
270 "Repeating command %S %S" repeat-arg last-repeatable-command
))
271 (if (eq last-repeatable-command
'self-insert-command
)
273 (if (<= (- num-input-keys
274 repeat-num-input-keys-at-self-insert
)
276 repeat-last-self-insert
277 (let ((range (nth 1 buffer-undo-list
)))
279 (setq repeat-last-self-insert
280 (buffer-substring (car range
)
282 (error (error "%s %s %s" ;Danger, Will Robinson!
283 "repeat can't intuit what you"
284 "inserted before auto-fill"
285 "clobbered it, sorry")))))))
286 (setq repeat-num-input-keys-at-self-insert num-input-keys
)
287 ;; If the self-insert had a repeat count, INSERTION
288 ;; includes that many copies of the same character.
289 ;; So use just the first character
290 ;; and repeat it the right number of times.
291 (setq insertion
(substring insertion -
1))
292 (let ((count (prefix-numeric-value repeat-arg
))
294 ;; Run pre- and post-command hooks for self-insertion too.
295 (run-hooks 'pre-command-hook
)
297 ((not repeat-undo-count
))
298 ((< repeat-undo-count
20)
299 ;; Don't make an undo-boundary here.
300 (setq repeat-undo-count
(1+ repeat-undo-count
)))
302 ;; Make an undo-boundary after 20 repetitions only.
304 (setq repeat-undo-count
1)))
306 (repeat-self-insert insertion
)
308 (run-hooks 'post-command-hook
)))
309 (let ((indirect (indirect-function last-repeatable-command
)))
310 ;; Make each repetition undo separately.
312 (if (or (stringp indirect
)
314 ;; Bind real-last-command so that executing the macro does
315 ;; not alter it. Do the same for last-repeatable-command.
316 (let ((real-last-command real-last-command
)
317 (last-repeatable-command last-repeatable-command
))
318 (execute-kbd-macro last-repeatable-command
))
319 (run-hooks 'pre-command-hook
)
320 (call-interactively last-repeatable-command
)
321 (run-hooks 'post-command-hook
)))))
322 (when repeat-repeat-char
323 ;; A simple recursion here gets into trouble with max-lisp-eval-depth
324 ;; on long sequences of repetitions of a command like `forward-word'
325 ;; (only 32 repetitions are possible given the default value of 200 for
326 ;; max-lisp-eval-depth), but if I now locally disable the repeat char I
327 ;; can iterate indefinitely here around a single level of recursion.
328 (let (repeat-on-final-keystroke
329 ;; Bind `undo-inhibit-record-point' to t in order to avoid
330 ;; recording point in `buffer-undo-list' here. We have to
331 ;; do this since the command loop does not set the last
332 ;; position of point thus confusing the point recording
333 ;; mechanism when inserting or deleting text.
334 (undo-inhibit-record-point t
))
335 (setq real-last-command
'repeat
)
336 (setq repeat-undo-count
1)
338 (while (let ((evt (read-key)))
339 ;; For clicks, we need to strip the meta-data to
340 ;; check the underlying event name.
341 (eq (or (car-safe evt
) evt
)
342 (or (car-safe repeat-repeat-char
)
343 repeat-repeat-char
)))
345 ;; Make sure `repeat-undo-count' is reset.
346 (setq repeat-undo-count nil
))
347 (setq unread-command-events
(list last-input-event
))))))
349 (defun repeat-self-insert (string)
351 (while (< i
(length string
))
352 (let ((last-command-event (aref string i
)))
353 (self-insert-command 1))
356 (defun repeat-message (format &rest args
)
357 "Like `message' but displays with `repeat-message-function' if non-nil."
358 (let ((message (apply 'format format args
)))
359 (if repeat-message-function
360 (funcall repeat-message-function message
)
361 (message "%s" message
))))
363 ;; OK, there's one situation left where that doesn't work correctly: when the
364 ;; most recent self-insertion provoked an auto-fill. The problem is that
365 ;; unravelling the undo information after an auto-fill is too hard, since all
366 ;; kinds of stuff can get in there as a result of comment prefixes etc. It'd
367 ;; be possible to advise do-auto-fill to record the most recent
368 ;; self-insertion before it does its thing, but that's a performance hit on
369 ;; auto-fill, which already has performance problems; so it's better to just
370 ;; leave it like this. If text didn't provoke an auto-fill when the user
371 ;; typed it, this'll correctly repeat its self-insertion, even if the
372 ;; repetition does cause auto-fill.
374 ;; If you wanted perfection, probably it'd be necessary to hack do-auto-fill
375 ;; into 2 functions, maybe-do-auto-fill & really-do-auto-fill, because only
376 ;; really-do-auto-fill should be advised. As things are, either the undo
377 ;; information would need to be scanned on every do-auto-fill invocation, or
378 ;; the code at the top of do-auto-fill deciding whether filling is necessary
379 ;; would need to be duplicated in the advice, wasting execution time when
380 ;; filling does turn out to be necessary.
382 ;; I thought maybe this story had a moral, something about functional
383 ;; decomposition; but now I'm not even sure of that, since a function
384 ;; call per se is a performance hit, & even the code that would
385 ;; correspond to really-do-auto-fill has performance problems that
386 ;; can make it necessary to stop typing while Emacs catches up.
387 ;; Maybe the real moral is that perfection is a chimera.
389 ;; Ah, hell, it's all going to fall into a black hole someday anyway.
391 ;;;;; ************************* EMACS CONTROL ************************* ;;;;;
395 ;; arch-tag: cd569600-a1ad-4fa7-9062-bb91dfeaf1db
396 ;;; repeat.el ends here