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   1 ;;; emacsbug.el --- command to report Emacs bugs to appropriate mailing list
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
   4 ;;   2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5
   6 ;; Author: K. Shane Hartman
   7 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   8 ;; Keywords: maint mail
   9
  10 ;; Not fully installed because it can work only on Internet hosts.
  11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  12
  13 ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  14 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  15 ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  16 ;; (at your option) any later version.
  17
  18 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  19 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  20 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  21 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
  22
  23 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  24 ;; along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  25
  26 ;;; Commentary:
  27
  28 ;; `M-x report-emacs-bug' starts an email note to the Emacs maintainers
  29 ;; describing a problem.  You need to be able to send mail from Emacs
  30 ;; to complete the process.  Alternatively, compose the bug report in
  31 ;; Emacs then paste it into your normal mail client.
  32
  33 ;;; Code:
  34
  35 (require 'sendmail)
  36
  37 (defgroup emacsbug nil
  38   "Sending Emacs bug reports."
  39   :group 'maint
  40   :group 'mail)
  41
  42 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-address "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org"
  43   "Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs bugs."
  44   :group 'emacsbug
  45   :type 'string)
  46
  47 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-pretest-address "emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org"
  48   "Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs pretest bugs."
  49   :group 'emacsbug
  50   :type 'string)
  51
  52 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation nil
  53   "If non-nil, suppress the confirmations asked for the sake of novice users."
  54   :group 'emacsbug
  55   :type 'boolean)
  56
  57 (defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-explanations nil
  58   "If non-nil, suppress the explanations given for the sake of novice users."
  59   :group 'emacsbug
  60   :type 'boolean)
  61
  62 ;; User options end here.
  63
  64
  65 (defvar report-emacs-bug-orig-text nil
  66   "The automatically-created initial text of bug report.")
  67
  68 ;;;###autoload
  69 (defun report-emacs-bug (topic &optional recent-keys)
  70   "Report a bug in GNU Emacs.
  71 Prompts for bug subject.  Leaves you in a mail buffer."
  72   ;; This strange form ensures that (recent-keys) is the value before
  73   ;; the bug subject string is read.
  74   (interactive (reverse (list (recent-keys) (read-string "Bug Subject: "))))
  75   ;; The syntax `version;' is preferred to `[version]' because the
  76   ;; latter could be mistakenly stripped by mailing software.
  77   (if (eq system-type 'ms-dos)
  78       (setq topic (concat emacs-version "; " topic))
  79     (when (string-match "^\\(\\([.0-9]+\\)*\\)\\.[0-9]+$" emacs-version)
  80       (setq topic (concat (match-string 1 emacs-version) "; " topic))))
  81   ;; If there are four numbers in emacs-version (three for MS-DOS),
  82   ;; this is a pretest version.
  83   (let* ((pretest-p (string-match (if (eq system-type 'ms-dos)
  84                                       "\\..*\\."
  85                                     "\\..*\\..*\\.")
  86                                   emacs-version))
  87          (from-buffer (current-buffer))
  88          (reporting-address (if pretest-p
  89                                 report-emacs-bug-pretest-address
  90                               report-emacs-bug-address))
  91          ;; Put these properties on semantically-void text.
  92          (prompt-properties '(field emacsbug-prompt
  93                                     intangible but-helpful
  94                                     rear-nonsticky t))
  95          user-point message-end-point)
  96     (setq message-end-point
  97           (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Messages*")
  98             (point-max-marker)))
  99     (compose-mail reporting-address
 100                   topic)
 101     ;; The rest of this does not execute
 102     ;; if the user was asked to confirm and said no.
 103     (rfc822-goto-eoh)
 104     (forward-line 1)
 105
 106     (let ((signature (buffer-substring (point) (point-max))))
 107       (delete-region (point) (point-max))
 108       (insert signature)
 109       (backward-char (length signature)))
 110     (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
 111       ;; Insert warnings for novice users.
 112       (when (string-match "@gnu\\.org^" reporting-address)
 113         (insert "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,\n")
 114         (let ((pos (point)))
 115           (insert "not to your local site managers!")
 116           (put-text-property pos (point) 'face 'highlight)))
 117       (insert "\nPlease write in ")
 118       (let ((pos (point)))
 119         (insert "English")
 120         (put-text-property pos (point) 'face 'highlight))
 121       (insert " if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
 122 usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.\n\n")
 123       (insert (format "Your bug report will be posted to the %s mailing list"
 124                       reporting-address))
 125       (if pretest-p
 126           (insert ".\n\n")
 127         (insert ",\nand to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.\n\n")))
 128
 129     (insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n"
 130             "and the precise symptoms of the bug:\n\n")
 131     (add-text-properties (point) (save-excursion (mail-text) (point))
 132                          prompt-properties)
 133
 134     (setq user-point (point))
 135     (insert "\n\n")
 136
 137     (insert "If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,\n"
 138             "please include the output from the following gdb commands:\n"
 139             "    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.\n")
 140
 141     (let ((debug-file (expand-file-name "DEBUG" data-directory)))
 142       (if (file-readable-p debug-file)
 143           (insert "If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file\n"
 144                   debug-file " for instructions.\n")))
 145     (add-text-properties (1+ user-point) (point) prompt-properties)
 146
 147     (insert "\n\nIn " (emacs-version) "\n")
 148     (if (fboundp 'x-server-vendor)
 149         (condition-case nil
 150             ;; This is used not only for X11 but also W32 and others.
 151             (insert "Windowing system distributor `" (x-server-vendor)
 152                     "', version "
 153                     (mapconcat 'number-to-string (x-server-version) ".") "\n")
 154           (error t)))
 155     (if (and system-configuration-options
 156              (not (equal system-configuration-options "")))
 157         (insert "configured using `configure "
 158                 system-configuration-options "'\n\n"))
 159     (insert "Important settings:\n")
 160     (mapc
 161      '(lambda (var)
 162         (insert (format "  value of $%s: %s\n" var (getenv var))))
 163      '("LC_ALL" "LC_COLLATE" "LC_CTYPE" "LC_MESSAGES"
 164        "LC_MONETARY" "LC_NUMERIC" "LC_TIME" "LANG" "XMODIFIERS"))
 165     (insert (format "  locale-coding-system: %s\n" locale-coding-system))
 166     (insert (format "  default-enable-multibyte-characters: %s\n"
 167                     default-enable-multibyte-characters))
 168     (insert "\n")
 169     (insert (format "Major mode: %s\n"
 170                     (format-mode-line
 171                      (buffer-local-value 'mode-name from-buffer)
 172                      nil nil from-buffer)))
 173     (insert "\n")
 174     (insert "Minor modes in effect:\n")
 175     (dolist (mode minor-mode-list)
 176       (and (boundp mode) (buffer-local-value mode from-buffer)
 177            (insert (format "  %s: %s\n" mode
 178                            (buffer-local-value mode from-buffer)))))
 179     (insert "\n")
 180     (insert "Recent input:\n")
 181     (let ((before-keys (point)))
 182       (insert (mapconcat (lambda (key)
 183                            (if (or (integerp key)
 184                                    (symbolp key)
 185                                    (listp key))
 186                                (single-key-description key)
 187                              (prin1-to-string key nil)))
 188                          (or recent-keys (recent-keys))
 189                          " "))
 190       (save-restriction
 191         (narrow-to-region before-keys (point))
 192         (goto-char before-keys)
 193         (while (progn (move-to-column 50) (not (eobp)))
 194           (search-forward " " nil t)
 195           (insert "\n"))))
 196     (let ((message-buf (get-buffer "*Messages*")))
 197       (if message-buf
 198           (let (beg-pos
 199                 (end-pos message-end-point))
 200             (with-current-buffer message-buf
 201               (goto-char end-pos)
 202               (forward-line -10)
 203               (setq beg-pos (point)))
 204             (insert "\n\nRecent messages:\n")
 205             (insert-buffer-substring message-buf beg-pos end-pos))))
 206     ;; This is so the user has to type something
 207     ;; in order to send easily.
 208     (use-local-map (nconc (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map)))
 209     (define-key (current-local-map) "\C-c\C-i" 'report-emacs-bug-info)
 210     (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
 211       (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
 212         (if (eq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)
 213             (princ (substitute-command-keys
 214                     "Type \\[mail-send-and-exit] to send the bug report.\n")))
 215         (princ (substitute-command-keys
 216                 "Type \\[kill-buffer] RET to cancel (don't send it).\n"))
 217         (terpri)
 218         (princ (substitute-command-keys
 219                 "Type \\[report-emacs-bug-info] to visit in Info the Emacs Manual section
 220 about when and how to write a bug report,
 221 and what information to supply so that the bug can be fixed.
 222 Type SPC to scroll through this section and its subsections."))))
 223     ;; Make it less likely people will send empty messages.
 224     (make-local-variable 'mail-send-hook)
 225     (add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'report-emacs-bug-hook)
 226     (save-excursion
 227       (goto-char (point-max))
 228       (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
 229       (make-local-variable 'report-emacs-bug-orig-text)
 230       (setq report-emacs-bug-orig-text (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))))
 231     (goto-char user-point)))
 232
 233 (defun report-emacs-bug-info ()
 234   "Go to the Info node on reporting Emacs bugs."
 235   (interactive)
 236   (info "(emacs)Bugs"))
 237
 238 (defun report-emacs-bug-hook ()
 239   (save-excursion
 240     (save-excursion
 241       (goto-char (point-max))
 242       (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
 243       (if (and (= (- (point) (point-min))
 244                   (length report-emacs-bug-orig-text))
 245                (equal (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))
 246                       report-emacs-bug-orig-text))
 247           (error "No text entered in bug report")))
 248
 249     ;; Check the buffer contents and reject non-English letters.
 250     (save-excursion
 251       (goto-char (point-min))
 252       (skip-chars-forward "\0-\177")
 253       (if (not (eobp))
 254           (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation
 255                   (y-or-n-p "Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? "))
 256               (while (progn (skip-chars-forward "\0-\177")
 257                             (not (eobp)))
 258                 (let ((ch (following-char)))
 259                   (delete-char 1)
 260                   (insert (format "=%02x" ch)))))))
 261
 262     ;; The last warning for novice users.
 263     (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation
 264             (yes-or-no-p
 265              "Send this bug report to the Emacs maintainers? "))
 266         ;; Just send the current mail.
 267         nil
 268       (goto-char (point-min))
 269       (if (search-forward "To: ")
 270           (let ((pos (point)))
 271             (end-of-line)
 272             (delete-region pos (point))))
 273       (kill-local-variable 'mail-send-hook)
 274       (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
 275         (princ (substitute-command-keys "\
 276 You invoked the command M-x report-emacs-bug,
 277 but you decided not to mail the bug report to the Emacs maintainers.
 278
 279 If you want to mail it to someone else instead,
 280 please insert the proper e-mail address after \"To: \",
 281 and send the mail again using \\[mail-send-and-exit].")))
 282       (error "M-x report-emacs-bug was cancelled, please read *Bug Help* buffer"))
 283
 284     ;; Unclutter
 285     (mail-text)
 286     (let ((pos (1- (point))))
 287       (while (setq pos (text-property-any pos (point-max)
 288                                           'field 'emacsbug-prompt))
 289         (delete-region pos (field-end (1+ pos)))))))
 290
 291 (provide 'emacsbug)
 292
 293 ;; arch-tag: 248b6523-c3b5-4fec-9a3f-0411fafa7d49
 294 ;;; emacsbug.el ends here