lisp/talk.el

   1 ;;; talk.el --- allow several users to talk to each other through Emacs
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4
   5 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   6 ;; Keywords: comm, frames
   7
   8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
   9
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  14
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  24
  25 ;;; Commentary:
  26
  27 ;; This is a multi-user talk package that runs in Emacs.
  28 ;; Use talk-connect to bring a new person into the conversation.
  29
  30 ;;; Code:
  31
  32 (defvar talk-display-alist nil
  33   "Alist of displays on which Emacs talk is now running.
  34 Each element has the form (DISPLAY FRAME BUFFER).")
  35
  36 ;;;###autoload
  37 (defun talk-connect (display)
  38   "Connect to display DISPLAY for the Emacs talk group."
  39   (interactive "sTalk to display: ")
  40   ;; Make sure we have an entry for the current display.
  41   (let ((mydisp (cdr (assq 'display (frame-parameters (selected-frame))))))
  42     (talk-add-display mydisp))
  43   ;; Make sure we have an entry for the specified display.
  44   (talk-add-display display)
  45   ;; Add the new buffers to all talk frames.
  46   (talk-update-buffers))
  47
  48 (defun talk-add-display (display)
  49   (let* ((elt (assoc display talk-display-alist))
  50          (name (concat "*talk-" display "*"))
  51          buffer frame)
  52     (if (not (and elt (frame-live-p (setq frame (nth 1 elt)))))
  53         (setq frame (make-frame-on-display display (list (cons 'name name)))))
  54     (if (not (and elt (buffer-name (get-buffer (setq buffer (nth 2 elt))))))
  55         (setq buffer (get-buffer-create name)))
  56     (setq talk-display-alist
  57           (cons (list display frame buffer) (delq elt talk-display-alist)))))
  58
  59 (defun talk-disconnect ()
  60   "Disconnect this display from the Emacs talk group."
  61   (interactive)
  62   (let* ((mydisp (cdr (assq 'display (frame-parameters (selected-frame)))))
  63          (elt (assoc mydisp talk-display-alist)))
  64     (delete-frame (nth 1 elt))
  65     (kill-buffer (nth 2 elt))
  66     (setq talk-display-alist (delq elt talk-display-alist))
  67     (talk-update-buffers)))
  68
  69 (defun talk-update-buffers ()
  70   "Update all the talk frames so that each shows all the talk buffers."
  71   (let ((tail talk-display-alist))
  72     (while tail
  73       (let ((frame (nth 1 (car tail)))
  74             (this-buffer (nth 2 (car tail)))
  75             (buffers
  76              (mapcar (function (lambda (elt) (nth 2 elt)))
  77                      talk-display-alist)))
  78         ;; Put this display's own talk buffer
  79         ;; at the front of the list.
  80         (setq buffers (cons this-buffer (delq this-buffer buffers)))
  81         (talk-split-up-frame frame buffers))
  82       (setq tail (cdr tail)))))
  83
  84 (defun talk-split-up-frame (frame buffers)
  85   "Split FRAME into equal-sized windows displaying the buffers in BUFFERS.
  86 Select the first of these windows, displaying the first of the buffers."
  87   (let ((lines-per-buffer (/ (frame-height frame) (length buffers)))
  88         (old-frame (selected-frame)))
  89     (unwind-protect
  90         (progn
  91           (select-frame frame)
  92           (select-window (frame-first-window frame))
  93           (delete-other-windows)
  94           (while (progn
  95                    (switch-to-buffer (car buffers))
  96                    (setq buffers (cdr buffers)))
  97             (split-window-vertically lines-per-buffer)
  98             (other-window 1))
  99           (select-window (frame-first-window frame)))
 100       (select-frame old-frame))))
 101
 102 (provide 'talk)
 103
 104 ;;; talk.el ends here