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1 ;; autoload.el --- maintain autoloads in loaddefs.el
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003,
4 ;; 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5
6 ;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>
7 ;; Keywords: maint
8
9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
10
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15
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20
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24 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
25
26 ;;; Commentary:
27
28 ;; This code helps GNU Emacs maintainers keep the loaddefs.el file up to
29 ;; date. It interprets magic cookies of the form ";;;###autoload" in
30 ;; lisp source files in various useful ways. To learn more, read the
31 ;; source; if you're going to use this, you'd better be able to.
32
33 ;;; Code:
34
35 (require 'lisp-mode) ;for `doc-string-elt' properties.
36 (require 'help-fns) ;for help-add-fundoc-usage.
37 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
38
39 (defvar generated-autoload-file "loaddefs.el"
40 "*File \\[update-file-autoloads] puts autoloads into.
41 A `.el' file can set this in its local variables section to make its
42 autoloads go somewhere else. The autoload file is assumed to contain a
43 trailer starting with a FormFeed character.")
44 (put 'generated-autoload-file 'safe-local-variable 'stringp)
45
46 ;; This feels like it should be a defconst, but MH-E sets it to
47 ;; ";;;###mh-autoload" for the autoloads that are to go into mh-loaddefs.el.
48 (defvar generate-autoload-cookie ";;;###autoload"
49 "Magic comment indicating the following form should be autoloaded.
50 Used by \\[update-file-autoloads]. This string should be
51 meaningless to Lisp (e.g., a comment).
52
53 This string is used:
54
55 \;;;###autoload
56 \(defun function-to-be-autoloaded () ...)
57
58 If this string appears alone on a line, the following form will be
59 read and an autoload made for it. If there is further text on the line,
60 that text will be copied verbatim to `generated-autoload-file'.")
61
62 (defconst generate-autoload-section-header "\f\n;;;### "
63 "String that marks the form at the start of a new file's autoload section.")
64
65 (defconst generate-autoload-section-trailer "\n;;;***\n"
66 "String which indicates the end of the section of autoloads for a file.")
67
68 (defconst generate-autoload-section-continuation ";;;;;; "
69 "String to add on each continuation of the section header form.")
70
71 (defun make-autoload (form file)
72 "Turn FORM into an autoload or defvar for source file FILE.
73 Returns nil if FORM is not a special autoload form (i.e. a function definition
74 or macro definition or a defcustom)."
75 (let ((car (car-safe form)) expand)
76 (cond
77 ;; For complex cases, try again on the macro-expansion.
78 ((and (memq car '(easy-mmode-define-global-mode define-global-minor-mode
79 define-globalized-minor-mode
80 easy-mmode-define-minor-mode define-minor-mode))
81 (setq expand (let ((load-file-name file)) (macroexpand form)))
82 (eq (car expand) 'progn)
83 (memq :autoload-end expand))
84 (let ((end (memq :autoload-end expand)))
85 ;; Cut-off anything after the :autoload-end marker.
86 (setcdr end nil)
87 (cons 'progn
88 (mapcar (lambda (form) (make-autoload form file))
89 (cdr expand)))))
90
91 ;; For special function-like operators, use the `autoload' function.
92 ((memq car '(defun define-skeleton defmacro define-derived-mode
93 define-compilation-mode define-generic-mode
94 easy-mmode-define-global-mode define-global-minor-mode
95 define-globalized-minor-mode
96 easy-mmode-define-minor-mode define-minor-mode
97 defun* defmacro*))
98 (let* ((macrop (memq car '(defmacro defmacro*)))
99 (name (nth 1 form))
100 (args (case car
101 ((defun defmacro defun* defmacro*) (nth 2 form))
102 ((define-skeleton) '(&optional str arg))
103 ((define-generic-mode define-derived-mode
104 define-compilation-mode) nil)
105 (t)))
106 (body (nthcdr (get car 'doc-string-elt) form))
107 (doc (if (stringp (car body)) (pop body))))
108 (when (listp args)
109 ;; Add the usage form at the end where describe-function-1
110 ;; can recover it.
111 (setq doc (help-add-fundoc-usage doc args)))
112 ;; `define-generic-mode' quotes the name, so take care of that
113 (list 'autoload (if (listp name) name (list 'quote name)) file doc
114 (or (and (memq car '(define-skeleton define-derived-mode
115 define-generic-mode
116 easy-mmode-define-global-mode
117 define-global-minor-mode
118 define-globalized-minor-mode
119 easy-mmode-define-minor-mode
120 define-minor-mode)) t)
121 (eq (car-safe (car body)) 'interactive))
122 (if macrop (list 'quote 'macro) nil))))
123
124 ;; Convert defcustom to less space-consuming data.
125 ((eq car 'defcustom)
126 (let ((varname (car-safe (cdr-safe form)))
127 (init (car-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe form))))
128 (doc (car-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe form)))))
129 ;; (rest (cdr-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe (cdr-safe form)))))
130 )
131 `(progn
132 (defvar ,varname ,init ,doc)
133 (custom-autoload ',varname ,file
134 ,(condition-case nil
135 (null (cadr (memq :set form)))
136 (error nil))))))
137
138 ((eq car 'defgroup)
139 ;; In Emacs this is normally handled separately by cus-dep.el, but for
140 ;; third party packages, it can be convenient to explicitly autoload
141 ;; a group.
142 (let ((groupname (nth 1 form)))
143 `(let ((loads (get ',groupname 'custom-loads)))
144 (if (member ',file loads) nil
145 (put ',groupname 'custom-loads (cons ',file loads))))))
146
147 ;; nil here indicates that this is not a special autoload form.
148 (t nil))))
149
150 ;; Forms which have doc-strings which should be printed specially.
151 ;; A doc-string-elt property of ELT says that (nth ELT FORM) is
152 ;; the doc-string in FORM.
153 ;; Those properties are now set in lisp-mode.el.
154
155 (defun autoload-generated-file ()
156 (expand-file-name generated-autoload-file
157 (expand-file-name "lisp"
158 source-directory)))
159
160 (defun autoload-trim-file-name (file)
161 ;; Returns a relative file path for FILE
162 ;; starting from the directory that loaddefs.el is in.
163 ;; That is normally a directory in load-path,
164 ;; which means Emacs will be able to find FILE when it looks.
165 ;; Any extra directory names here would prevent finding the file.
166 (setq file (expand-file-name file))
167 (file-relative-name file
168 (file-name-directory generated-autoload-file)))
169
170 (defun autoload-read-section-header ()
171 "Read a section header form.
172 Since continuation lines have been marked as comments,
173 we must copy the text of the form and remove those comment
174 markers before we call `read'."
175 (save-match-data
176 (let ((beginning (point))
177 string)
178 (forward-line 1)
179 (while (looking-at generate-autoload-section-continuation)
180 (forward-line 1))
181 (setq string (buffer-substring beginning (point)))
182 (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create " *autoload*")
183 (erase-buffer)
184 (insert string)
185 (goto-char (point-min))
186 (while (search-forward generate-autoload-section-continuation nil t)
187 (replace-match " "))
188 (goto-char (point-min))
189 (read (current-buffer))))))
190
191 (defvar autoload-print-form-outbuf nil
192 "Buffer which gets the output of `autoload-print-form'.")
193
194 (defun autoload-print-form (form)
195 "Print FORM such that `make-docfile' will find the docstrings.
196 The variable `autoload-print-form-outbuf' specifies the buffer to
197 put the output in."
198 (cond
199 ;; If the form is a sequence, recurse.
200 ((eq (car form) 'progn) (mapcar 'autoload-print-form (cdr form)))
201 ;; Symbols at the toplevel are meaningless.
202 ((symbolp form) nil)
203 (t
204 (let ((doc-string-elt (get (car-safe form) 'doc-string-elt))
205 (outbuf autoload-print-form-outbuf))
206 (if (and doc-string-elt (stringp (nth doc-string-elt form)))
207 ;; We need to hack the printing because the
208 ;; doc-string must be printed specially for
209 ;; make-docfile (sigh).
210 (let* ((p (nthcdr (1- doc-string-elt) form))
211 (elt (cdr p)))
212 (setcdr p nil)
213 (princ "\n(" outbuf)
214 (let ((print-escape-newlines t)
215 (print-escape-nonascii t))
216 (dolist (elt form)
217 (prin1 elt outbuf)
218 (princ " " outbuf)))
219 (princ "\"\\\n" outbuf)
220 (let ((begin (with-current-buffer outbuf (point))))
221 (princ (substring (prin1-to-string (car elt)) 1)
222 outbuf)
223 ;; Insert a backslash before each ( that
224 ;; appears at the beginning of a line in
225 ;; the doc string.
226 (with-current-buffer outbuf
227 (save-excursion
228 (while (re-search-backward "\n[[(]" begin t)
229 (forward-char 1)
230 (insert "\\"))))
231 (if (null (cdr elt))
232 (princ ")" outbuf)
233 (princ " " outbuf)
234 (princ (substring (prin1-to-string (cdr elt)) 1)
235 outbuf))
236 (terpri outbuf)))
237 (let ((print-escape-newlines t)
238 (print-escape-nonascii t))
239 (print form outbuf)))))))
240
241 (defun autoload-ensure-default-file (file)
242 "Make sure that the autoload file FILE exists and if not create it."
243 (unless (file-exists-p file)
244 (write-region
245 (concat ";;; " (file-name-nondirectory file)
246 " --- automatically extracted autoloads\n"
247 ";;\n"
248 ";;; Code:\n\n"
249 "\f\n;; Local Variables:\n"
250 ";; version-control: never\n"
251 ";; no-byte-compile: t\n"
252 ";; no-update-autoloads: t\n"
253 ";; End:\n"
254 ";;; " (file-name-nondirectory file)
255 " ends here\n")
256 nil file))
257 file)
258
259 (defun autoload-insert-section-header (outbuf autoloads load-name file time)
260 "Insert the section-header line,
261 which lists the file name and which functions are in it, etc."
262 (insert generate-autoload-section-header)
263 (prin1 (list 'autoloads autoloads load-name
264 (if (stringp file) (autoload-trim-file-name file) file)
265 time)
266 outbuf)
267 (terpri outbuf)
268 ;; Break that line at spaces, to avoid very long lines.
269 ;; Make each sub-line into a comment.
270 (with-current-buffer outbuf
271 (save-excursion
272 (forward-line -1)
273 (while (not (eolp))
274 (move-to-column 64)
275 (skip-chars-forward "^ \n")
276 (or (eolp)
277 (insert "\n" generate-autoload-section-continuation))))))
278
279 (defun autoload-find-file (file)
280 "Fetch file and put it in a temp buffer. Return the buffer."
281 ;; It is faster to avoid visiting the file.
282 (setq file (expand-file-name file))
283 (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create " *autoload-file*")
284 (kill-all-local-variables)
285 (erase-buffer)
286 (setq buffer-undo-list t
287 buffer-read-only nil)
288 (emacs-lisp-mode)
289 (setq default-directory (file-name-directory file))
290 (insert-file-contents file nil)
291 (let ((enable-local-variables :safe))
292 (hack-local-variables))
293 (current-buffer)))
294
295 (defvar no-update-autoloads nil
296 "File local variable to prevent scanning this file for autoload cookies.")
297
298 (defun autoload-file-load-name (file)
299 (let ((name (file-name-nondirectory file)))
300 (if (string-match "\\.elc?\\(\\.\\|\\'\\)" name)
301 (substring name 0 (match-beginning 0))
302 name)))
303
304 (defun generate-file-autoloads (file)
305 "Insert at point a loaddefs autoload section for FILE.
306 Autoloads are generated for defuns and defmacros in FILE
307 marked by `generate-autoload-cookie' (which see).
308 If FILE is being visited in a buffer, the contents of the buffer
309 are used.
310 Return non-nil in the case where no autoloads were added at point."
311 (interactive "fGenerate autoloads for file: ")
312 (autoload-generate-file-autoloads file (current-buffer)))
313
314 (defun autoload-generate-file-autoloads (file &optional outbuf)
315 "Insert an autoload section for FILE in the appropriate buffer.
316 Autoloads are generated for defuns and defmacros in FILE
317 marked by `generate-autoload-cookie' (which see).
318 If FILE is being visited in a buffer, the contents of the buffer are used.
319 OUTBUF is the buffer in which the autoload statements will be inserted.
320 If OUTBUF is nil, it will be determined by `autoload-generated-file'.
321 Return non-nil in the case where no autoloads were added to OUTBUF.
322
323 Can throw `up-to-date' to mean that the entries were found already and are
324 up-to-date. Of course, this can only be the case if OUTBUF is not used."
325 (let ((autoloads-done '())
326 (load-name (autoload-file-load-name file))
327 (print-length nil)
328 (print-readably t) ; This does something in Lucid Emacs.
329 (float-output-format nil)
330 (visited (get-file-buffer file))
331 (absfile (expand-file-name file))
332 relfile
333 ;; nil until we found a cookie.
334 output-start)
335
336 (with-current-buffer (or visited
337 ;; It is faster to avoid visiting the file.
338 (autoload-find-file file))
339 ;; Obey the no-update-autoloads file local variable.
340 (unless no-update-autoloads
341 (message "Generating autoloads for %s..." file)
342 (save-excursion
343 (save-restriction
344 (widen)
345 (goto-char (point-min))
346 (while (not (eobp))
347 (skip-chars-forward " \t\n\f")
348 (cond
349 ((looking-at (regexp-quote generate-autoload-cookie))
350 ;; If not done yet, figure out where to insert this text.
351 (unless output-start
352 (unless outbuf
353 (setq outbuf (autoload-find-destination absfile)))
354 (with-current-buffer outbuf
355 (setq relfile (file-relative-name absfile))
356 (setq output-start (point)))
357 ;; (message "file=%S, relfile=%S, dest=%S"
358 ;; file relfile (autoload-generated-file))
359 )
360 (search-forward generate-autoload-cookie)
361 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
362 (if (eolp)
363 (condition-case err
364 ;; Read the next form and make an autoload.
365 (let* ((form (prog1 (read (current-buffer))
366 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))))
367 (autoload (make-autoload form load-name)))
368 (if autoload
369 (push (nth 1 form) autoloads-done)
370 (setq autoload form))
371 (let ((autoload-print-form-outbuf outbuf))
372 (autoload-print-form autoload)))
373 (error
374 (message "Error in %s: %S" file err)))
375
376 ;; Copy the rest of the line to the output.
377 (princ (buffer-substring
378 (progn
379 ;; Back up over whitespace, to preserve it.
380 (skip-chars-backward " \f\t")
381 (if (= (char-after (1+ (point))) ? )
382 ;; Eat one space.
383 (forward-char 1))
384 (point))
385 (progn (forward-line 1) (point)))
386 outbuf)))
387 ((looking-at ";")
388 ;; Don't read the comment.
389 (forward-line 1))
390 (t
391 (forward-sexp 1)
392 (forward-line 1))))))
393
394 (when output-start
395 (with-current-buffer outbuf
396 (save-excursion
397 ;; Insert the section-header line which lists the file name
398 ;; and which functions are in it, etc.
399 (goto-char output-start)
400 (autoload-insert-section-header
401 outbuf autoloads-done load-name relfile
402 (nth 5 (file-attributes relfile)))
403 (insert ";;; Generated autoloads from " relfile "\n"))
404 (insert generate-autoload-section-trailer)))
405 (message "Generating autoloads for %s...done" file))
406 (or visited
407 ;; We created this buffer, so we should kill it.
408 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
409 (not output-start)))
410 \f
411 (defvar autoload-modified-buffers nil)
412
413 (defun autoload-save-buffers ()
414 (while autoload-modified-buffers
415 (with-current-buffer (pop autoload-modified-buffers)
416 (save-buffer))))
417
418 ;;;###autoload
419 (defun update-file-autoloads (file &optional save-after)
420 "Update the autoloads for FILE in `generated-autoload-file'
421 \(which FILE might bind in its local variables).
422 If SAVE-AFTER is non-nil (which is always, when called interactively),
423 save the buffer too.
424
425 Return FILE if there was no autoload cookie in it, else nil."
426 (interactive "fUpdate autoloads for file: \np")
427 (let ((no-autoloads nil))
428 (if (catch 'up-to-date
429 (progn
430 (setq no-autoloads (autoload-generate-file-autoloads file))
431 t))
432 (if save-after (autoload-save-buffers))
433 (if (interactive-p)
434 (message "Autoload section for %s is up to date." file)))
435 ;; If we caught `up-to-date', it means there are autoload entries, since
436 ;; otherwise we wouldn't have detected their up-to-dateness.
437 (if no-autoloads file)))
438
439 (defun autoload-find-destination (file)
440 "Find the destination point of the current buffer's autoloads.
441 FILE is the file name of the current buffer.
442 Returns a buffer whose point is placed at the requested location.
443 Throws `up-to-date' if the file's autoloads are uptodate, otherwise
444 removes any prior now out-of-date autoload entries.
445 The current buffer only matters if it is visiting a file or if it has a buffer-local
446 value for some variables such as `generated-autoload-file', so it's OK
447 to call it from a dummy buffer if FILE is not currently visited."
448 ;; (message "autoload-find-destination %S" file)
449 (let ((load-name (autoload-file-load-name file))
450 (existing-buffer (if buffer-file-name (current-buffer)))
451 (found nil))
452 (with-current-buffer
453 ;; We must read/write the file without any code conversion,
454 ;; but still decode EOLs.
455 (let ((coding-system-for-read 'raw-text))
456 (find-file-noselect
457 (autoload-ensure-default-file (autoload-generated-file))))
458 ;; This is to make generated-autoload-file have Unix EOLs, so
459 ;; that it is portable to all platforms.
460 (setq buffer-file-coding-system 'raw-text-unix)
461 (or (> (buffer-size) 0)
462 (error "Autoloads file %s does not exist" buffer-file-name))
463 (or (file-writable-p buffer-file-name)
464 (error "Autoloads file %s is not writable" buffer-file-name))
465 (widen)
466 (goto-char (point-min))
467 ;; Look for the section for LOAD-NAME.
468 (while (and (not found)
469 (search-forward generate-autoload-section-header nil t))
470 (let ((form (autoload-read-section-header)))
471 (cond ((string= (nth 2 form) load-name)
472 ;; We found the section for this file.
473 ;; Check if it is up to date.
474 (let ((begin (match-beginning 0))
475 (last-time (nth 4 form))
476 (file-time (nth 5 (file-attributes file))))
477 (if (and (or (null existing-buffer)
478 (not (buffer-modified-p existing-buffer)))
479 (listp last-time) (= (length last-time) 2)
480 (not (time-less-p last-time file-time)))
481 (throw 'up-to-date nil)
482 (autoload-remove-section begin)
483 (setq found t))))
484 ((string< load-name (nth 2 form))
485 ;; We've come to a section alphabetically later than
486 ;; LOAD-NAME. We assume the file is in order and so
487 ;; there must be no section for LOAD-NAME. We will
488 ;; insert one before the section here.
489 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
490 (setq found t)))))
491 (or found
492 (progn
493 ;; No later sections in the file. Put before the last page.
494 (goto-char (point-max))
495 (search-backward "\f" nil t)))
496 (unless (memq (current-buffer) autoload-modified-buffers)
497 (push (current-buffer) autoload-modified-buffers))
498 (current-buffer))))
499
500 (defun autoload-remove-section (begin)
501 (goto-char begin)
502 (search-forward generate-autoload-section-trailer)
503 (delete-region begin (point)))
504
505 ;;;###autoload
506 (defun update-directory-autoloads (&rest dirs)
507 "\
508 Update loaddefs.el with all the current autoloads from DIRS, and no old ones.
509 This uses `update-file-autoloads' (which see) to do its work.
510 In an interactive call, you must give one argument, the name
511 of a single directory. In a call from Lisp, you can supply multiple
512 directories as separate arguments, but this usage is discouraged.
513
514 The function does NOT recursively descend into subdirectories of the
515 directory or directories specified."
516 (interactive "DUpdate autoloads from directory: ")
517 (let* ((files-re (let ((tmp nil))
518 (dolist (suf (get-load-suffixes)
519 (concat "^[^=.].*" (regexp-opt tmp t) "\\'"))
520 (unless (string-match "\\.elc" suf) (push suf tmp)))))
521 (files (apply 'nconc
522 (mapcar (lambda (dir)
523 (directory-files (expand-file-name dir)
524 t files-re))
525 dirs)))
526 (this-time (current-time))
527 (no-autoloads nil) ;files with no autoload cookies.
528 (autoloads-file (autoload-generated-file))
529 (top-dir (file-name-directory autoloads-file)))
530
531 (with-current-buffer
532 (find-file-noselect (autoload-ensure-default-file autoloads-file))
533 (save-excursion
534
535 ;; Canonicalize file names and remove the autoload file itself.
536 (setq files (delete (autoload-trim-file-name buffer-file-name)
537 (mapcar 'autoload-trim-file-name files)))
538
539 (goto-char (point-min))
540 (while (search-forward generate-autoload-section-header nil t)
541 (let* ((form (autoload-read-section-header))
542 (file (nth 3 form)))
543 (cond ((and (consp file) (stringp (car file)))
544 ;; This is a list of files that have no autoload cookies.
545 ;; There shouldn't be more than one such entry.
546 ;; Remove the obsolete section.
547 (autoload-remove-section (match-beginning 0))
548 (let ((last-time (nth 4 form)))
549 (dolist (file file)
550 (let ((file-time (nth 5 (file-attributes file))))
551 (when (and file-time
552 (not (time-less-p last-time file-time)))
553 ;; file unchanged
554 (push file no-autoloads)
555 (setq files (delete file files)))))))
556 ((not (stringp file)))
557 ((not (file-exists-p (expand-file-name file top-dir)))
558 ;; Remove the obsolete section.
559 (autoload-remove-section (match-beginning 0)))
560 ((equal (nth 4 form) (nth 5 (file-attributes file)))
561 ;; File hasn't changed.
562 nil)
563 (t
564 (update-file-autoloads file)))
565 (setq files (delete file files)))))
566 ;; Elements remaining in FILES have no existing autoload sections yet.
567 (setq no-autoloads
568 (append no-autoloads
569 (delq nil (mapcar 'update-file-autoloads files))))
570 (when no-autoloads
571 ;; Sort them for better readability.
572 (setq no-autoloads (sort no-autoloads 'string<))
573 ;; Add the `no-autoloads' section.
574 (goto-char (point-max))
575 (search-backward "\f" nil t)
576 (autoload-insert-section-header
577 (current-buffer) nil nil no-autoloads this-time)
578 (insert generate-autoload-section-trailer))
579
580 (save-buffer))))
581
582 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'update-autoloads-from-directories
583 'update-directory-autoloads "22.1")
584
585 ;;;###autoload
586 (defun batch-update-autoloads ()
587 "Update loaddefs.el autoloads in batch mode.
588 Calls `update-directory-autoloads' on the command line arguments."
589 (apply 'update-directory-autoloads command-line-args-left)
590 (setq command-line-args-left nil))
591
592 (provide 'autoload)
593
594 ;; arch-tag: 00244766-98f4-4767-bf42-8a22103441c6
595 ;;; autoload.el ends here