1 ;;; ielm.el --- interaction mode for Emacs Lisp
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: David Smith <maa036@lancaster.ac.uk>
7 ;; Created: 25 Feb 1994
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29 ;; Provides a nice interface to evaluating Emacs Lisp expressions.
30 ;; Input is handled by the comint package, and output is passed
31 ;; through the pretty-printer.
33 ;; To install: copy this file to a directory in your load-path, and
34 ;; add the following line to your .emacs file:
36 ;; (autoload 'ielm "ielm" "Start an inferior Emacs Lisp session" t)
38 ;; For completion to work, the comint.el from Emacs 19.23 is
39 ;; required. If you do not have it, or if you are running Lemacs,
40 ;; also add the following code to your .emacs:
42 ;; (setq ielm-mode-hook
44 ;; (define-key ielm-map "\t"
45 ;; '(lambda nil (interactive) (or (ielm-tab)
46 ;; (lisp-complete-symbol))))))
48 ;; To start: M-x ielm. Type C-h m in the *ielm* buffer for more info.
50 ;; The latest version is available by WWW from
51 ;; http://mathssun5.lancs.ac.uk:2080/~maa036/elisp/dir.html
52 ;; or by anonymous FTP from
53 ;; /anonymous@wingra.stat.wisc.edu:pub/src/emacs-lisp/ielm.el.gz
54 ;; or from the author: David M. Smith <maa036@lancaster.ac.uk>
64 "Interaction mode for Emacs Lisp."
68 (defcustom ielm-noisy t
69 "*If non-nil, IELM will beep on error."
73 (defvar ielm-prompt "ELISP> "
74 "Prompt used in IELM.")
76 (defcustom ielm-dynamic-return t
77 "*Controls whether \\<ielm-map>\\[ielm-return] has intelligent behaviour in IELM.
78 If non-nil, \\[ielm-return] evaluates input for complete sexps, or inserts a newline
79 and indents for incomplete sexps. If nil, always inserts newlines."
83 (defcustom ielm-dynamic-multiline-inputs t
84 "*Force multiline inputs to start from column zero?
85 If non-nil, after entering the first line of an incomplete sexp, a newline
86 will be inserted after the prompt, moving the input to the next line.
87 This gives more frame width for large indented sexps, and allows functions
88 such as `edebug-defun' to work with such inputs."
92 (defcustom ielm-mode-hook nil
93 "*Hooks to be run when IELM (`inferior-emacs-lisp-mode') is started."
99 (defvar ielm-working-buffer nil
100 "Buffer in which IELM sexps will be evaluated.
101 This variable is buffer-local.")
104 "*** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help.\n"
105 "Message to display when IELM is started.")
107 (defvar ielm-map nil)
109 (if (string-match "Lucid" emacs-version)
112 (setq ielm-map (make-sparse-keymap))
113 (set-keymap-parent ielm-map comint-mode-map))
115 (setq ielm-map (cons 'keymap comint-mode-map)))
116 (define-key ielm-map "\t" 'comint-dynamic-complete)
117 (define-key ielm-map "\C-m" 'ielm-return)
118 (define-key ielm-map "\C-j" 'ielm-send-input)
119 (define-key ielm-map "\e\C-x" 'eval-defun) ; for consistency with
120 (define-key ielm-map "\e\t" 'lisp-complete-symbol) ; lisp-interaction-mode
121 ;; These bindings are from shared-lisp-mode-map -- can you inherit
122 ;; from more than one keymap??
123 (define-key ielm-map "\e\C-q" 'indent-sexp)
124 (define-key ielm-map "\177" 'backward-delete-char-untabify)
125 ;; Some convenience bindings for setting the working buffer
126 (define-key ielm-map "\C-c\C-b" 'ielm-change-working-buffer)
127 (define-key ielm-map "\C-c\C-f" 'ielm-display-working-buffer)
128 (define-key ielm-map "\C-c\C-v" 'ielm-print-working-buffer))
130 (defvar ielm-font-lock-keywords
132 (cons (concat "^" (regexp-quote ielm-prompt)) 'font-lock-keyword-face)
133 '("\\(^\\*\\*\\*[^*]+\\*\\*\\*\\)\\(.*$\\)" (1 font-lock-comment-face) (2 font-lock-reference-face)))
134 "Additional expressions to highlight in ielm buffers.")
139 "Possibly indent the current line as lisp code."
141 (if (or (eq (preceding-char) ?\n)
142 (eq (char-syntax (preceding-char)) ? ))
147 (defun ielm-complete-symbol nil
148 "Complete the lisp symbol before point."
149 ;; A wrapper for lisp-complete symbol that returns non-nil if
150 ;; completion has occurred
151 (let* ((btick (buffer-modified-tick))
152 (cbuffer (get-buffer "*Completions*"))
153 (ctick (and cbuffer (buffer-modified-tick cbuffer))))
154 (lisp-complete-symbol)
155 ;; completion has occurred if:
157 ;; the buffer has been modified
158 (not (= btick (buffer-modified-tick)))
159 ;; a completions buffer has been modified or created
161 (not (= ctick (buffer-modified-tick cbuffer)))
162 (get-buffer "*Completions*")))))
164 (defun ielm-complete-filename nil
165 "Dynamically complete filename before point, if in a string."
166 (if (nth 3 (parse-partial-sexp comint-last-input-start (point)))
167 (comint-dynamic-complete-filename)))
169 (defun ielm-indent-line nil
170 "Indent the current line as Lisp code if it is not a prompt line."
173 (looking-at comint-prompt-regexp)) nil
176 ;;; Working buffer manipulation
178 (defun ielm-print-working-buffer nil
179 "Print the current IELM working buffer's name in the echo area."
181 (message "The current working buffer is: %s" (buffer-name ielm-working-buffer)))
183 (defun ielm-display-working-buffer nil
184 "Display the current IELM working buffer.
185 Don't forget that selecting that buffer will change its value of `point'
186 to its value of `window-point'!"
188 (display-buffer ielm-working-buffer)
189 (ielm-print-working-buffer))
191 (defun ielm-change-working-buffer (buf)
192 "Change the current IELM working buffer to BUF.
193 This is the buffer in which all sexps entered at the IELM prompt are
194 evaluated. You can achieve the same effect with a call to
195 `set-buffer' at the IELM prompt."
196 (interactive "bSet working buffer to: ")
197 (setq ielm-working-buffer (or (get-buffer buf) (error "No such buffer")))
198 (ielm-print-working-buffer))
202 (defun ielm-return nil
203 "Newline and indent, or evaluate the sexp before the prompt.
204 Complete sexps are evaluated; for incomplete sexps inserts a newline
205 and indents. If however `ielm-dynamic-return' is nil, this always
206 simply inserts a newline."
208 (if ielm-dynamic-return
212 (parse-partial-sexp (ielm-pm)
214 (if (and (< (car state) 1) (not (nth 3 state)))
216 (if (and ielm-dynamic-multiline-inputs
219 (looking-at comint-prompt-regexp)))
221 (goto-char (ielm-pm))
223 (newline-and-indent)))
228 (defun ielm-input-sender (proc input)
229 ;; Just sets the variable ielm-input, which is in the scope of
230 ;; `ielm-send-input's call.
231 (setq ielm-input input))
233 (defun ielm-send-input nil
234 "Evaluate the Emacs Lisp expression after the prompt."
236 (let ((buf (current-buffer))
237 ielm-input) ; set by ielm-input-sender
238 (comint-send-input) ; update history, markers etc.
239 (ielm-eval-input ielm-input)))
241 ;;; Utility functions
243 (defun ielm-is-whitespace (string)
244 "Return non-nil if STRING is all whitespace."
245 (or (string= string "") (string-match "\\`[ \t\n]+\\'" string)))
247 (defun ielm-format-errors (errlist)
250 (setq result (concat result (prin1-to-string (car errlist)) ", "))
251 (setq errlist (cdr errlist)))
252 (substring result 0 -2)))
255 (defun ielm-format-error (err)
256 ;; Return a string form of the error ERR.
258 (or (get (car err) 'error-message) "Peculiar error")
260 (format ": %s" (ielm-format-errors (cdr err)))
265 (defun ielm-eval-input (ielm-string)
266 "Evaluate the Lisp expression IELM-STRING, and pretty-print the result."
267 ;; This is the function that actually `sends' the input to the
268 ;; `inferior Lisp process'. All comint-send-input does is works out
269 ;; what that input is. What this function does is evaluates that
270 ;; input and produces `output' which gets inserted into the buffer,
271 ;; along with a new prompt. A better way of doing this might have
272 ;; been to actually send the output to the `cat' process, and write
273 ;; this as in output filter that converted sexps in the output
274 ;; stream to their evaluated value. But that would have involved
275 ;; more process coordination than I was happy to deal with.
277 ;; NOTE: all temporary variables in this function will be in scope
278 ;; during the eval, and so need to have non-clashing names.
279 (let (ielm-form ; form to evaluate
280 ielm-pos ; End posn of parse in string
281 ielm-result ; Result, or error message
282 ielm-error-type ; string, nil if no error
283 (ielm-output "") ; result to display
284 (ielm-wbuf ielm-working-buffer) ; current buffer after evaluation
285 (ielm-pmark (ielm-pm)))
286 (if (and (not (null ielm-string))
287 (not (ielm-is-whitespace ielm-string)))
291 (setq rout (read-from-string ielm-string))
292 (setq ielm-form (car rout))
293 (setq ielm-pos (cdr rout)))
294 (error (setq ielm-result (ielm-format-error err))
295 (setq ielm-error-type "Read error")))
296 (if ielm-error-type nil
297 ;; Make sure working buffer has not been killed
298 (if (not (buffer-name ielm-working-buffer))
299 (setq ielm-result "Working buffer has been killed"
300 ielm-error-type "IELM Error"
301 ielm-wbuf (current-buffer))
302 (if (ielm-is-whitespace (substring ielm-string ielm-pos))
303 ;; need this awful let convolution to work around
304 ;; an Emacs bug involving local vbls and let binding
309 (set-buffer ielm-working-buffer)
314 (ielm-obuf (current-buffer)))
315 (setq ielm-result (eval ielm-form))
316 (setq ielm-wbuf (current-buffer))
317 ;; The eval may have changed current-buffer;
318 ;; need to set it back here to avoid a bug
319 ;; in let. Don't want to use save-excursion
320 ;; because we want to allow changes in point.
321 (set-buffer ielm-obuf))
322 (error (setq ielm-result (ielm-format-error err))
323 (setq ielm-error-type "Eval error"))
324 (quit (setq ielm-result "Quit during evaluation")
325 (setq ielm-error-type "Eval error")))))
326 (setq ielm-error-type "IELM error")
327 (setq ielm-result "More than one sexp in input"))))
329 ;; If the eval changed the current buffer, mention it here
330 (if (eq ielm-wbuf ielm-working-buffer) nil
331 (message "current buffer is now: %s" ielm-wbuf)
332 (setq ielm-working-buffer ielm-wbuf))
334 (goto-char ielm-pmark)
335 (if (not ielm-error-type)
337 ;; Self-referential objects cause loops in the printer, so
338 ;; trap quits here. May as well do errors, too
339 (setq ielm-output (concat ielm-output (pp-to-string ielm-result)))
340 (error (setq ielm-error-type "IELM Error")
341 (setq ielm-result "Error during pretty-printing (bug in pp)"))
342 (quit (setq ielm-error-type "IELM Error")
343 (setq ielm-result "Quit during pretty-printing"))))
346 (if ielm-noisy (ding))
347 (setq ielm-output (concat ielm-output "*** " ielm-error-type " *** "))
348 (setq ielm-output (concat ielm-output ielm-result)))
349 ;; There was no error, so shift the !!! values
352 (setq ! ielm-result))
353 (setq ielm-output (concat ielm-output "\n"))))
354 (if (not (null ielm-string))
355 (setq ielm-output (concat ielm-output ielm-prompt)))
356 (comint-output-filter (ielm-process) ielm-output)))
358 ;;; Process and marker utilities
360 (defun ielm-process nil
361 ;; Return the current buffer's process.
362 (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))
365 ;; Return the process mark of the current buffer.
366 (process-mark (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
368 (defun ielm-set-pm (pos)
369 ;; Set the process mark in the current buffer to POS.
370 (set-marker (process-mark (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))) pos))
374 (put 'inferior-emacs-lisp-mode 'mode-class 'special)
376 (defun inferior-emacs-lisp-mode nil
377 "Major mode for interactively evaluating Emacs Lisp expressions.
378 Uses the interface provided by `comint-mode' (which see).
380 * \\<ielm-map>\\[ielm-send-input] evaluates the sexp following the prompt. There must be at most
381 one top-level sexp per prompt.
383 * \\[ielm-return] inserts a newline and indents, or evaluates a
384 complete expression (but see variable `ielm-dynamic-return').
385 Inputs longer than one line are moved to the line following the
386 prompt (but see variable `ielm-dynamic-multiline-inputs').
388 * \\[comint-dynamic-complete] completes Lisp symbols (or filenames, within strings),
389 or indents the line if there is nothing to complete.
391 During evaluations, the values of the variables `!', `!!', and `!!!'
392 are the results of the previous, second previous and third previous
393 evaluations respectively.
395 The current working buffer may be changed (with a call to
396 `set-buffer', or with \\[ielm-change-working-buffer]), and its value
397 is preserved between successive evaluations. In this way, expressions
398 may be evaluated in a different buffer than the *ielm* buffer.
399 Display the name of the working buffer with \\[ielm-print-working-buffer],
400 or the buffer itself with \\[ielm-display-working-buffer].
402 Expressions evaluated by IELM are not subject to `debug-on-quit' or
405 The behaviour of IELM may be customised with the following variables:
406 * To stop beeping on error, set `ielm-noisy' to nil
407 * If you don't like the prompt, you can change it by setting `ielm-prompt'.
408 * Set `ielm-dynamic-return' to nil for bindings like `lisp-interaction-mode'
409 * Entry to this mode runs `comint-mode-hook' and `ielm-mode-hook'
412 Customised bindings may be defined in `ielm-map', which currently contains:
416 (setq comint-prompt-regexp (concat "^" (regexp-quote ielm-prompt)))
417 (make-local-variable 'paragraph-start)
418 (setq paragraph-start comint-prompt-regexp)
419 (setq comint-input-sender 'ielm-input-sender)
420 (setq comint-process-echoes nil)
421 (setq comint-dynamic-complete-functions
422 '(ielm-tab comint-replace-by-expanded-history ielm-complete-filename ielm-complete-symbol))
423 (setq comint-get-old-input 'ielm-get-old-input)
424 (make-local-variable 'comint-completion-addsuffix)
425 (setq comint-completion-addsuffix
426 (cons (char-to-string directory-sep-char) ""))
428 (setq major-mode 'inferior-emacs-lisp-mode)
429 (setq mode-name "IELM")
430 (use-local-map ielm-map)
431 (set-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table)
433 (make-local-variable 'indent-line-function)
434 (make-local-variable 'ielm-working-buffer)
435 (setq ielm-working-buffer (current-buffer))
436 (setq indent-line-function 'ielm-indent-line)
437 (make-local-variable 'fill-paragraph-function)
438 (setq fill-paragraph-function 'lisp-fill-paragraph)
442 (make-local-variable '!)
444 (make-local-variable '!!)
446 (make-local-variable '!!!)
449 (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
450 (setq font-lock-defaults
451 '(ielm-font-lock-keywords nil nil ((?! . "w") (?- . "w") (?* . "w"))))
453 ;; A dummy process to keep comint happy. It will never get any input
454 (if (comint-check-proc (current-buffer)) nil
455 (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "cat")
456 (process-kill-without-query (ielm-process))
457 (goto-char (point-max))
458 ;; Add a silly header
460 (ielm-set-pm (point-max))
461 (comint-output-filter (ielm-process) ielm-prompt)
462 (set-marker comint-last-input-start (ielm-pm))
463 (set-process-filter (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)) 'comint-output-filter))
464 (run-hooks 'ielm-mode-hook))
466 (defun ielm-get-old-input nil
467 ;; Return the previous input surrounding point
470 (if (looking-at comint-prompt-regexp) nil
471 (re-search-backward comint-prompt-regexp))
473 (buffer-substring (point) (progn (forward-sexp 1) (point)))))
477 ;;;###autoload (add-hook 'same-window-buffer-names "*ielm*")
481 "Interactively evaluate Emacs Lisp expressions.
482 Switches to the buffer `*ielm*', or creates it if it does not exist."
484 (if (comint-check-proc "*ielm*")
487 (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "*ielm*"))
488 (inferior-emacs-lisp-mode)))
489 (pop-to-buffer "*ielm*"))
493 ;;; ielm.el ends here