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1 ;;; advice.el --- an overloading mechanism for Emacs Lisp functions
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 ;; Author: Hans Chalupsky <hans@cs.buffalo.edu>
6 ;; Created: 12 Dec 1992
7 ;; Version: advice.el,v 2.13 1994/08/03 23:27:05 hans Exp
8 ;; Keywords: extensions, lisp, tools
9
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27 ;; advice|Hans Chalupsky|hans@cs.buffalo.edu|
28 ;; Overloading mechanism for Emacs Lisp functions|
29 ;; 1994/08/03 23:27:05|2.13|~/packages/advice.el.Z|
30
31
32 ;;; Commentary:
33
34 ;; NOTE: This documentation is slightly out of date. In particular, all the
35 ;; references to Emacs-18 are obsolete now, because it is not any longer
36 ;; supported by this version of Advice. An up-to-date version will soon be
37 ;; available as an info file (thanks to the kind help of Jack Vinson and
38 ;; David M. Smith).
39
40 ;; @ Introduction:
41 ;; ===============
42 ;; This package implements a full-fledged Lisp-style advice mechanism
43 ;; for Emacs Lisp. Advice is a clean and efficient way to modify the
44 ;; behavior of Emacs Lisp functions without having to keep personal
45 ;; modified copies of such functions around. A great number of such
46 ;; modifications can be achieved by treating the original function as a
47 ;; black box and specifying a different execution environment for it
48 ;; with a piece of advice. Think of a piece of advice as a kind of fancy
49 ;; hook that you can attach to any function/macro/subr.
50
51 ;; @ Highlights:
52 ;; =============
53 ;; - Clean definition of multiple, named before/around/after advices
54 ;; for functions, macros, subrs and special forms
55 ;; - Full control over the arguments an advised function will receive,
56 ;; the binding environment in which it will be executed, as well as the
57 ;; value it will return.
58 ;; - Allows re/definition of interactive behavior for functions and subrs
59 ;; - Every piece of advice can have its documentation string which will be
60 ;; combined with the original documentation of the advised function at
61 ;; call-time of `documentation' for proper command-key substitution.
62 ;; - The execution of every piece of advice can be protected against error
63 ;; and non-local exits in preceding code or advices.
64 ;; - Simple argument access either by name, or, more portable but as
65 ;; efficient, via access macros
66 ;; - Allows the specification of a different argument list for the advised
67 ;; version of a function.
68 ;; - Advised functions can be byte-compiled either at file-compile time
69 ;; (see preactivation) or activation time.
70 ;; - Separation of advice definition and activation
71 ;; - Forward advice is possible, that is
72 ;; as yet undefined or autoload functions can be advised without having to
73 ;; preload the file in which they are defined.
74 ;; - Forward redefinition is possible because around advice can be used to
75 ;; completely redefine a function.
76 ;; - A caching mechanism for advised definition provides for cheap deactivation
77 ;; and reactivation of advised functions.
78 ;; - Preactivation allows efficient construction and compilation of advised
79 ;; definitions at file compile time without giving up the flexibility of
80 ;; the advice mechanism.
81 ;; - En/disablement mechanism allows the use of different "views" of advised
82 ;; functions depending on what pieces of advice are currently en/disabled
83 ;; - Provides manipulation mechanisms for sets of advised functions via
84 ;; regular expressions that match advice names
85
86 ;; @ How to get Advice for Emacs-18:
87 ;; =================================
88 ;; `advice18.el', a version of Advice that also works in Emacs-18 is available
89 ;; either via anonymous ftp from `ftp.cs.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.9)' with
90 ;; pathname `/pub/Emacs/advice18.el', or from one of the Emacs Lisp archive
91 ;; sites, or send email to <hans@cs.buffalo.edu> and I'll mail it to you.
92
93 ;; @ Overview, or how to read this file:
94 ;; =====================================
95 ;; NOTE: This documentation is slightly out of date. In particular, all the
96 ;; references to Emacs-18 are obsolete now, because it is not any longer
97 ;; supported by this version of Advice. An up-to-date version will soon be
98 ;; available as an info file (thanks to the kind help of Jack Vinson and
99 ;; David M. Smith). Until then you can use `outline-mode' to help you read
100 ;; this documentation (set `outline-regexp' to `";; @+"').
101 ;;
102 ;; The four major sections of this file are:
103 ;;
104 ;; @ This initial information ...installation, customization etc.
105 ;; @ Advice documentation: ...general documentation
106 ;; @ Foo games: An advice tutorial ...teaches about Advice by example
107 ;; @ Advice implementation: ...actual code, yeah!!
108 ;;
109 ;; The latter three are actual headings which you can search for
110 ;; directly in case `outline-mode' doesn't work for you.
111
112 ;; @ Restrictions:
113 ;; ===============
114 ;; - This version of Advice only works for Emacs 19.26 and later. It uses
115 ;; new versions of the built-in functions `fset/defalias' which are not
116 ;; yet available in Lucid Emacs, hence, it won't work there.
117 ;; - Advised functions/macros/subrs will only exhibit their advised behavior
118 ;; when they are invoked via their function cell. This means that advice will
119 ;; not work for the following:
120 ;; + advised subrs that are called directly from other subrs or C-code
121 ;; + advised subrs that got replaced with their byte-code during
122 ;; byte-compilation (e.g., car)
123 ;; + advised macros which were expanded during byte-compilation before
124 ;; their advice was activated.
125
126 ;; @ Credits:
127 ;; ==========
128 ;; This package is an extension and generalization of packages such as
129 ;; insert-hooks.el written by Noah S. Friedman, and advise.el written by
130 ;; Raul J. Acevedo. Some ideas used in here come from these packages,
131 ;; others come from the various Lisp advice mechanisms I've come across
132 ;; so far, and a few are simply mine.
133
134 ;; @ Comments, suggestions, bug reports:
135 ;; =====================================
136 ;; If you find any bugs, have suggestions for new advice features, find the
137 ;; documentation wrong, confusing, incomplete, or otherwise unsatisfactory,
138 ;; have any questions about Advice, or have otherwise enlightening
139 ;; comments feel free to send me email at <hans@cs.buffalo.edu>.
140
141 ;; @ Safety Rules and Emergency Exits:
142 ;; ===================================
143 ;; Before we begin: CAUTION!!
144 ;; Advice provides you with a lot of rope to hang yourself on very
145 ;; easily accessible trees, so, here are a few important things you
146 ;; should know: Once Advice has been started with `ad-start-advice'
147 ;; (which happens automatically when you load this file), it
148 ;; generates an advised definition of the `documentation' function, and
149 ;; it will enable automatic advice activation when functions get defined.
150 ;; All of this can be undone at any time with `M-x ad-stop-advice'.
151 ;;
152 ;; If you experience any strange behavior/errors etc. that you attribute to
153 ;; Advice or to some ill-advised function do one of the following:
154
155 ;; - M-x ad-deactivate FUNCTION (if you have a definite suspicion what
156 ;; function gives you problems)
157 ;; - M-x ad-deactivate-all (if you don't have a clue what's going wrong)
158 ;; - M-x ad-stop-advice (if you think the problem is related to the
159 ;; advised functions used by Advice itself)
160 ;; - M-x ad-recover-normality (for real emergencies)
161 ;; - If none of the above solves your Advice-related problem go to another
162 ;; terminal, kill your Emacs process and send me some hate mail.
163
164 ;; The first three measures have restarts, i.e., once you've figured out
165 ;; the problem you can reactivate advised functions with either `ad-activate',
166 ;; `ad-activate-all', or `ad-start-advice'. `ad-recover-normality' unadvises
167 ;; everything so you won't be able to reactivate any advised functions, you'll
168 ;; have to stick with their standard incarnations for the rest of the session.
169
170 ;; IMPORTANT: With Advice loaded always do `M-x ad-deactivate-all' before
171 ;; you byte-compile a file, because advised special forms and macros can lead
172 ;; to unwanted compilation results. When you are done compiling use
173 ;; `M-x ad-activate-all' to go back to the advised state of all your
174 ;; advised functions.
175
176 ;; RELAX: Advice is pretty safe even if you are oblivious to the above.
177 ;; I use it extensively and haven't run into any serious trouble in a long
178 ;; time. Just wanted you to be warned.
179
180 ;; @ Customization:
181 ;; ================
182
183 ;; Look at the documentation of `ad-redefinition-action' for possible values
184 ;; of this variable. Its default value is `warn' which will print a warning
185 ;; message when an already defined advised function gets redefined with a
186 ;; new original definition and de/activated.
187
188 ;; Look at the documentation of `ad-default-compilation-action' for possible
189 ;; values of this variable. Its default value is `maybe' which will compile
190 ;; advised definitions during activation in case the byte-compiler is already
191 ;; loaded. Otherwise, it will leave them uncompiled.
192
193 ;; @ Motivation:
194 ;; =============
195 ;; Before I go on explaining how advice works, here are four simple examples
196 ;; how this package can be used. The first three are very useful, the last one
197 ;; is just a joke:
198
199 ;;(defadvice switch-to-buffer (before existing-buffers-only activate)
200 ;; "When called interactively switch to existing buffers only, unless
201 ;;when called with a prefix argument."
202 ;; (interactive
203 ;; (list (read-buffer "Switch to buffer: " (other-buffer)
204 ;; (null current-prefix-arg)))))
205 ;;
206 ;;(defadvice switch-to-buffer (around confirm-non-existing-buffers activate)
207 ;; "Switch to non-existing buffers only upon confirmation."
208 ;; (interactive "BSwitch to buffer: ")
209 ;; (if (or (get-buffer (ad-get-arg 0))
210 ;; (y-or-n-p (format "`%s' does not exist, create? " (ad-get-arg 0))))
211 ;; ad-do-it))
212 ;;
213 ;;(defadvice find-file (before existing-files-only activate)
214 ;; "Find existing files only"
215 ;; (interactive "fFind file: "))
216 ;;
217 ;;(defadvice car (around interactive activate)
218 ;; "Make `car' an interactive function."
219 ;; (interactive "xCar of list: ")
220 ;; ad-do-it
221 ;; (if (interactive-p)
222 ;; (message "%s" ad-return-value)))
223
224
225 ;; @ Advice documentation:
226 ;; =======================
227 ;; Below is general documentation of the various features of advice. For more
228 ;; concrete examples check the corresponding sections in the tutorial part.
229
230 ;; @@ Terminology:
231 ;; ===============
232 ;; - Emacs, Emacs-19: FSF's version of Emacs with major version 19
233 ;; - Lemacs: Lucid's version of Emacs with major version 19
234 ;; - v18: Any Emacs with major version 18 or built as an extension to that
235 ;; (such as Epoch)
236 ;; - v19: Any Emacs with major version 19
237 ;; - jwz: Jamie Zawinski - keeper of Lemacs and creator of the optimizing
238 ;; byte-compiler used in v19s.
239 ;; - Advice: The name of this package.
240 ;; - advices: Short for "pieces of advice".
241
242 ;; @@ Defining a piece of advice with `defadvice':
243 ;; ===============================================
244 ;; The main means of defining a piece of advice is the macro `defadvice',
245 ;; there is no interactive way of specifying a piece of advice. A call to
246 ;; `defadvice' has the following syntax which is similar to the syntax of
247 ;; `defun/defmacro':
248 ;;
249 ;; (defadvice <function> (<class> <name> [<position>] [<arglist>] {<flags>}*)
250 ;; [ [<documentation-string>] [<interactive-form>] ]
251 ;; {<body-form>}* )
252
253 ;; <function> is the name of the function/macro/subr to be advised.
254
255 ;; <class> is the class of the advice which has to be one of `before',
256 ;; `around', `after', `activation' or `deactivation' (the last two allow
257 ;; definition of special act/deactivation hooks).
258
259 ;; <name> is the name of the advice which has to be a non-nil symbol.
260 ;; Names uniquely identify a piece of advice in a certain advice class,
261 ;; hence, advices can be redefined by defining an advice with the same class
262 ;; and name. Advice names are global symbols, hence, the same name space
263 ;; conventions used for function names should be applied.
264
265 ;; An optional <position> specifies where in the current list of advices of
266 ;; the specified <class> this new advice will be placed. <position> has to
267 ;; be either `first', `last' or a number that specifies a zero-based
268 ;; position (`first' is equivalent to 0). If no position is specified
269 ;; `first' will be used as a default. If this call to `defadvice' redefines
270 ;; an already existing advice (see above) then the position argument will
271 ;; be ignored and the position of the already existing advice will be used.
272
273 ;; An optional <arglist> which has to be a list can be used to define the
274 ;; argument list of the advised function. This argument list should of
275 ;; course be compatible with the argument list of the original function,
276 ;; otherwise functions that call the advised function with the original
277 ;; argument list in mind will break. If more than one advice specify an
278 ;; argument list then the first one (the one with the smallest position)
279 ;; found in the list of before/around/after advices will be used.
280
281 ;; <flags> is a list of symbols that specify further information about the
282 ;; advice. All flags can be specified with unambiguous initial substrings.
283 ;; `activate': Specifies that the advice information of the advised
284 ;; function should be activated right after this advice has been
285 ;; defined. In forward advices `activate' will be ignored.
286 ;; `protect': Specifies that this advice should be protected against
287 ;; non-local exits and errors in preceding code/advices.
288 ;; `compile': Specifies that the advised function should be byte-compiled.
289 ;; This flag will be ignored unless `activate' is also specified.
290 ;; `disable': Specifies that the defined advice should be disabled, hence,
291 ;; it will not be used in an activation until somebody enables it.
292 ;; `preactivate': Specifies that the advised function should get preactivated
293 ;; at macro-expansion/compile time of this `defadvice'. This
294 ;; generates a compiled advised definition according to the
295 ;; current advice state which will be used during activation
296 ;; if appropriate. Only use this if the `defadvice' gets
297 ;; actually compiled (with a v18 byte-compiler put the `defadvice'
298 ;; into the body of a `defun' to accomplish proper compilation).
299
300 ;; An optional <documentation-string> can be supplied to document the advice.
301 ;; On call of the `documentation' function it will be combined with the
302 ;; documentation strings of the original function and other advices.
303
304 ;; An optional <interactive-form> form can be supplied to change/add
305 ;; interactive behavior of the original function. If more than one advice
306 ;; has an `(interactive ...)' specification then the first one (the one
307 ;; with the smallest position) found in the list of before/around/after
308 ;; advices will be used.
309
310 ;; A possibly empty list of <body-forms> specifies the body of the advice in
311 ;; an implicit progn. The body of an advice can access/change arguments,
312 ;; the return value, the binding environment, and can have all sorts of
313 ;; other side effects.
314
315 ;; @@ Assembling advised definitions:
316 ;; ==================================
317 ;; Suppose a function/macro/subr/special-form has N pieces of before advice,
318 ;; M pieces of around advice and K pieces of after advice. Assuming none of
319 ;; the advices is protected, its advised definition will look like this
320 ;; (body-form indices correspond to the position of the respective advice in
321 ;; that advice class):
322
323 ;; ([macro] lambda <arglist>
324 ;; [ [<advised-docstring>] [(interactive ...)] ]
325 ;; (let (ad-return-value)
326 ;; {<before-0-body-form>}*
327 ;; ....
328 ;; {<before-N-1-body-form>}*
329 ;; {<around-0-body-form>}*
330 ;; {<around-1-body-form>}*
331 ;; ....
332 ;; {<around-M-1-body-form>}*
333 ;; (setq ad-return-value
334 ;; <apply original definition to <arglist>>)
335 ;; {<other-around-M-1-body-form>}*
336 ;; ....
337 ;; {<other-around-1-body-form>}*
338 ;; {<other-around-0-body-form>}*
339 ;; {<after-0-body-form>}*
340 ;; ....
341 ;; {<after-K-1-body-form>}*
342 ;; ad-return-value))
343
344 ;; Macros and special forms will be redefined as macros, hence the optional
345 ;; [macro] in the beginning of the definition.
346
347 ;; <arglist> is either the argument list of the original function or the
348 ;; first argument list defined in the list of before/around/after advices.
349 ;; The values of <arglist> variables can be accessed/changed in the body of
350 ;; an advice by simply referring to them by their original name, however,
351 ;; more portable argument access macros are also provided (see below). For
352 ;; subrs/special-forms for which neither explicit argument list definitions
353 ;; are available, nor their documentation strings contain such definitions
354 ;; (as they do v19s), `(&rest ad-subr-args)' will be used.
355
356 ;; <advised-docstring> is an optional, special documentation string which will
357 ;; be expanded into a proper documentation string upon call of `documentation'.
358
359 ;; (interactive ...) is an optional interactive form either taken from the
360 ;; original function or from a before/around/after advice. For advised
361 ;; interactive subrs that do not have an interactive form specified in any
362 ;; advice we have to use (interactive) and then call the subr interactively
363 ;; if the advised function was called interactively, because the
364 ;; interactive specification of subrs is not accessible. This is the only
365 ;; case where changing the values of arguments will not have an affect
366 ;; because they will be reset by the interactive specification of the subr.
367 ;; If this is a problem one can always specify an interactive form in a
368 ;; before/around/after advice to gain control over argument values that
369 ;; were supplied interactively.
370 ;;
371 ;; Then the body forms of the various advices in the various classes of advice
372 ;; are assembled in order. The forms of around advice L are normally part of
373 ;; one of the forms of around advice L-1. An around advice can specify where
374 ;; the forms of the wrapped or surrounded forms should go with the special
375 ;; keyword `ad-do-it', which will be substituted with a `progn' containing the
376 ;; forms of the surrounded code.
377
378 ;; The innermost part of the around advice onion is
379 ;; <apply original definition to <arglist>>
380 ;; whose form depends on the type of the original function. The variable
381 ;; `ad-return-value' will be set to its result. This variable is visible to
382 ;; all pieces of advice which can access and modify it before it gets returned.
383 ;;
384 ;; The semantic structure of advised functions that contain protected pieces
385 ;; of advice is the same. The only difference is that `unwind-protect' forms
386 ;; make sure that the protected advice gets executed even if some previous
387 ;; piece of advice had an error or a non-local exit. If any around advice is
388 ;; protected then the whole around advice onion will be protected.
389
390 ;; @@ Argument access in advised functions:
391 ;; ========================================
392 ;; As already mentioned, the simplest way to access the arguments of an
393 ;; advised function in the body of an advice is to refer to them by name. To
394 ;; do that, the advice programmer needs to know either the names of the
395 ;; argument variables of the original function, or the names used in the
396 ;; argument list redefinition given in a piece of advice. While this simple
397 ;; method might be sufficient in many cases, it has the disadvantage that it
398 ;; is not very portable because it hardcodes the argument names into the
399 ;; advice. If the definition of the original function changes the advice
400 ;; might break even though the code might still be correct. Situations like
401 ;; that arise, for example, if one advises a subr like `eval-region' which
402 ;; gets redefined in a non-advice style into a function by the edebug
403 ;; package. If the advice assumes `eval-region' to be a subr it might break
404 ;; once edebug is loaded. Similar situations arise when one wants to use the
405 ;; same piece of advice across different versions of Emacs. Some subrs in a
406 ;; v18 Emacs are functions in v19 and vice versa, but for the most part the
407 ;; semantics remain the same, hence, the same piece of advice might be usable
408 ;; in both Emacs versions.
409
410 ;; As a solution to that advice provides argument list access macros that get
411 ;; translated into the proper access forms at activation time, i.e., when the
412 ;; advised definition gets constructed. Access macros access actual arguments
413 ;; by position regardless of how these actual argument get distributed onto
414 ;; the argument variables of a function. The rational behind this is that in
415 ;; Emacs Lisp the semantics of an argument is strictly determined by its
416 ;; position (there are no keyword arguments).
417
418 ;; Suppose the function `foo' is defined as
419 ;;
420 ;; (defun foo (x y &optional z &rest r) ....)
421 ;;
422 ;; and is then called with
423 ;;
424 ;; (foo 0 1 2 3 4 5 6)
425
426 ;; which means that X=0, Y=1, Z=2 and R=(3 4 5 6). The assumption is that
427 ;; the semantics of an actual argument is determined by its position. It is
428 ;; this semantics that has to be known by the advice programmer. Then s/he
429 ;; can access these arguments in a piece of advice with some of the
430 ;; following macros (the arrows indicate what value they will return):
431
432 ;; (ad-get-arg 0) -> 0
433 ;; (ad-get-arg 1) -> 1
434 ;; (ad-get-arg 2) -> 2
435 ;; (ad-get-arg 3) -> 3
436 ;; (ad-get-args 2) -> (2 3 4 5 6)
437 ;; (ad-get-args 4) -> (4 5 6)
438
439 ;; `(ad-get-arg <position>)' will return the actual argument that was supplied
440 ;; at <position>, `(ad-get-args <position>)' will return the list of actual
441 ;; arguments supplied starting at <position>. Note that these macros can be
442 ;; used without any knowledge about the form of the actual argument list of
443 ;; the original function.
444
445 ;; Similarly, `(ad-set-arg <position> <value-form>)' can be used to set the
446 ;; value of the actual argument at <position> to <value-form>. For example,
447 ;;
448 ;; (ad-set-arg 5 "five")
449 ;;
450 ;; will have the effect that R=(3 4 "five" 6) once the original function is
451 ;; called. `(ad-set-args <position> <value-list-form>)' can be used to set
452 ;; the list of actual arguments starting at <position> to <value-list-form>.
453 ;; For example,
454 ;;
455 ;; (ad-set-args 0 '(5 4 3 2 1 0))
456 ;;
457 ;; will have the effect that X=5, Y=4, Z=3 and R=(2 1 0) once the original
458 ;; function is called.
459
460 ;; All these access macros are text macros rather than real Lisp macros. When
461 ;; the advised definition gets constructed they get replaced with actual access
462 ;; forms depending on the argument list of the advised function, i.e., after
463 ;; that argument access is in most cases as efficient as using the argument
464 ;; variable names directly.
465
466 ;; @@@ Accessing argument bindings of arbitrary functions:
467 ;; =======================================================
468 ;; Some functions (such as `trace-function' defined in trace.el) need a
469 ;; method of accessing the names and bindings of the arguments of an
470 ;; arbitrary advised function. To do that within an advice one can use the
471 ;; special keyword `ad-arg-bindings' which is a text macro that will be
472 ;; substituted with a form that will evaluate to a list of binding
473 ;; specifications, one for every argument variable. These binding
474 ;; specifications can then be examined in the body of the advice. For
475 ;; example, somewhere in an advice we could do this:
476 ;;
477 ;; (let* ((bindings ad-arg-bindings)
478 ;; (firstarg (car bindings))
479 ;; (secondarg (car (cdr bindings))))
480 ;; ;; Print info about first argument
481 ;; (print (format "%s=%s (%s)"
482 ;; (ad-arg-binding-field firstarg 'name)
483 ;; (ad-arg-binding-field firstarg 'value)
484 ;; (ad-arg-binding-field firstarg 'type)))
485 ;; ....)
486 ;;
487 ;; The `type' of an argument is either `required', `optional' or `rest'.
488 ;; Wherever `ad-arg-bindings' appears a form will be inserted that evaluates
489 ;; to the list of bindings, hence, in order to avoid multiple unnecessary
490 ;; evaluations one should always bind it to some variable.
491
492 ;; @@@ Argument list mapping:
493 ;; ==========================
494 ;; Because `defadvice' allows the specification of the argument list of the
495 ;; advised function we need a mapping mechanism that maps this argument list
496 ;; onto that of the original function. For example, somebody might specify
497 ;; `(sym newdef)' as the argument list of `fset', while advice might use
498 ;; `(&rest ad-subr-args)' as the argument list of the original function
499 ;; (depending on what Emacs version is used). Hence SYM and NEWDEF have to
500 ;; be properly mapped onto the &rest variable when the original definition is
501 ;; called. Advice automatically takes care of that mapping, hence, the advice
502 ;; programmer can specify an argument list without having to know about the
503 ;; exact structure of the original argument list as long as the new argument
504 ;; list takes a compatible number/magnitude of actual arguments.
505
506 ;; @@@ Definition of subr argument lists:
507 ;; ======================================
508 ;; When advice constructs the advised definition of a function it has to
509 ;; know the argument list of the original function. For functions and macros
510 ;; the argument list can be determined from the actual definition, however,
511 ;; for subrs there is no such direct access available. In Lemacs and for some
512 ;; subrs in Emacs-19 the argument list of a subr can be determined from
513 ;; its documentation string, in a v18 Emacs even that is not possible. If
514 ;; advice cannot at all determine the argument list of a subr it uses
515 ;; `(&rest ad-subr-args)' which will always work but is inefficient because
516 ;; it conses up arguments. The macro `ad-define-subr-args' can be used by
517 ;; the advice programmer to explicitly tell advice about the argument list
518 ;; of a certain subr, for example,
519 ;;
520 ;; (ad-define-subr-args 'fset '(sym newdef))
521 ;;
522 ;; is used by advice itself to tell a v18 Emacs about the arguments of `fset'.
523 ;; The following can be used to undo such a definition:
524 ;;
525 ;; (ad-undefine-subr-args 'fset)
526 ;;
527 ;; The argument list definition is stored on the property list of the subr
528 ;; name symbol. When an argument list could be determined from the
529 ;; documentation string it will be cached under that property. The general
530 ;; mechanism for looking up the argument list of a subr is the following:
531 ;; 1) look for a definition stored on the property list
532 ;; 2) if that failed try to infer it from the documentation string and
533 ;; if successful cache it on the property list
534 ;; 3) otherwise use `(&rest ad-subr-args)'
535
536 ;; @@ Activation and deactivation:
537 ;; ===============================
538 ;; The definition of an advised function does not change until all its advice
539 ;; gets actually activated. Activation can either happen with the `activate'
540 ;; flag specified in the `defadvice', with an explicit call or interactive
541 ;; invocation of `ad-activate', or if forward advice is enabled (i.e., the
542 ;; value of `ad-activate-on-definition' is t) at the time an already advised
543 ;; function gets defined.
544
545 ;; When a function gets first activated its original definition gets saved,
546 ;; all defined and enabled pieces of advice will get combined with the
547 ;; original definition, the resulting definition might get compiled depending
548 ;; on some conditions described below, and then the function will get
549 ;; redefined with the advised definition. This also means that undefined
550 ;; functions cannot get activated even though they might be already advised.
551
552 ;; The advised definition will get compiled either if `ad-activate' was called
553 ;; interactively with a prefix argument, or called explicitly with its second
554 ;; argument as t, or, if `ad-default-compilation-action' justifies it according
555 ;; to the current system state. If the advised definition was
556 ;; constructed during "preactivation" (see below) then that definition will
557 ;; be already compiled because it was constructed during byte-compilation of
558 ;; the file that contained the `defadvice' with the `preactivate' flag.
559
560 ;; `ad-deactivate' can be used to back-define an advised function to its
561 ;; original definition. It can be called interactively or directly. Because
562 ;; `ad-activate' caches the advised definition the function can be
563 ;; reactivated via `ad-activate' with only minor overhead (it is checked
564 ;; whether the current advice state is consistent with the cached
565 ;; definition, see the section on caching below).
566
567 ;; `ad-activate-regexp' and `ad-deactivate-regexp' can be used to de/activate
568 ;; all currently advised function that have a piece of advice with a name that
569 ;; contains a match for a regular expression. These functions can be used to
570 ;; de/activate sets of functions depending on certain advice naming
571 ;; conventions.
572
573 ;; Finally, `ad-activate-all' and `ad-deactivate-all' can be used to
574 ;; de/activate all currently advised functions. These are useful to
575 ;; (temporarily) return to an un/advised state.
576
577 ;; @@@ Reasons for the separation of advice definition and activation:
578 ;; ===================================================================
579 ;; As already mentioned, advising happens in two stages:
580
581 ;; 1) definition of various pieces of advice
582 ;; 2) activation of all advice currently defined and enabled
583
584 ;; The advantage of this is that various pieces of advice can be defined
585 ;; before they get combined into an advised definition which avoids
586 ;; unnecessary constructions of intermediate advised definitions. The more
587 ;; important advantage is that it allows the implementation of forward advice.
588 ;; Advice information for a certain function accumulates as the value of the
589 ;; `advice-info' property of the function symbol. This accumulation is
590 ;; completely independent of the fact that that function might not yet be
591 ;; defined. The special forms `defun' and `defmacro' have been advised to
592 ;; check whether the function/macro they defined had advice information
593 ;; associated with it. If so and forward advice is enabled, the original
594 ;; definition will be saved, and then the advice will be activated. When a
595 ;; file is loaded in a v18 Emacs the functions/macros it defines are also
596 ;; defined with calls to `defun/defmacro'. Hence, we can forward advise
597 ;; functions/macros which will be defined later during a load/autoload of some
598 ;; file (for compiled files generated by jwz's byte-compiler in a v19 Emacs
599 ;; this is slightly more complicated but the basic idea is the same).
600
601 ;; @@ Enabling/disabling pieces or sets of advice:
602 ;; ===============================================
603 ;; A major motivation for the development of this advice package was to bring
604 ;; a little bit more structure into the function overloading chaos in Emacs
605 ;; Lisp. Many packages achieve some of their functionality by adding a little
606 ;; bit (or a lot) to the standard functionality of some Emacs Lisp function.
607 ;; ange-ftp is a very popular package that achieves its magic by overloading
608 ;; most Emacs Lisp functions that deal with files. A popular function that's
609 ;; overloaded by many packages is `expand-file-name'. The situation that one
610 ;; function is multiply overloaded can arise easily.
611
612 ;; Once in a while it would be desirable to be able to disable some/all
613 ;; overloads of a particular package while keeping all the rest. Ideally -
614 ;; at least in my opinion - these overloads would all be done with advice,
615 ;; I know I am dreaming right now... In that ideal case the enable/disable
616 ;; mechanism of advice could be used to achieve just that.
617
618 ;; Every piece of advice is associated with an enablement flag. When the
619 ;; advised definition of a particular function gets constructed (e.g., during
620 ;; activation) only the currently enabled pieces of advice will be considered.
621 ;; This mechanism allows one to have different "views" of an advised function
622 ;; dependent on what pieces of advice are currently enabled.
623
624 ;; Another motivation for this mechanism is that it allows one to define a
625 ;; piece of advice for some function yet keep it dormant until a certain
626 ;; condition is met. Until then activation of the function will not make use
627 ;; of that piece of advice. Once the condition is met the advice can be
628 ;; enabled and a reactivation of the function will add its functionality as
629 ;; part of the new advised definition. For example, the advices of `defun'
630 ;; etc. used by advice itself will stay disabled until `ad-start-advice' is
631 ;; called and some variables have the proper values. Hence, if somebody
632 ;; else advised these functions too and activates them the advices defined
633 ;; by advice will get used only if they are intended to be used.
634
635 ;; The main interface to this mechanism are the interactive functions
636 ;; `ad-enable-advice' and `ad-disable-advice'. For example, the following
637 ;; would disable a particular advice of the function `foo':
638 ;;
639 ;; (ad-disable-advice 'foo 'before 'my-advice)
640 ;;
641 ;; This call by itself only changes the flag, to get the proper effect in
642 ;; the advised definition too one has to activate `foo' with
643 ;;
644 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
645 ;;
646 ;; or interactively. To disable whole sets of advices one can use a regular
647 ;; expression mechanism. For example, let us assume that ange-ftp actually
648 ;; used advice to overload all its functions, and that it used the
649 ;; "ange-ftp-" prefix for all its advice names, then we could temporarily
650 ;; disable all its advices with
651 ;;
652 ;; (ad-disable-regexp "^ange-ftp-")
653 ;;
654 ;; and the following call would put that actually into effect:
655 ;;
656 ;; (ad-activate-regexp "^ange-ftp-")
657 ;;
658 ;; A saver way would have been to use
659 ;;
660 ;; (ad-update-regexp "^ange-ftp-")
661 ;;
662 ;; instead which would have only reactivated currently actively advised
663 ;; functions, but not functions that were currently deactivated. All these
664 ;; functions can also be called interactively.
665
666 ;; A certain piece of advice is considered a match if its name contains a
667 ;; match for the regular expression. To enable ange-ftp again we would use
668 ;; `ad-enable-regexp' and then activate or update again.
669
670 ;; @@ Forward advice, automatic advice activation:
671 ;; ===============================================
672 ;; Because most Emacs Lisp packages are loaded on demand via an autoload
673 ;; mechanism it is essential to be able to "forward advise" functions.
674 ;; Otherwise, proper advice definition and activation would make it necessary
675 ;; to preload every file that defines a certain function before it can be
676 ;; advised, which would partly defeat the purpose of the advice mechanism.
677
678 ;; In the following, "forward advice" always implies its automatic activation
679 ;; once a function gets defined, and not just the accumulation of advice
680 ;; information for a possibly undefined function.
681
682 ;; Advice implements forward advice mainly via the following: 1) Separation
683 ;; of advice definition and activation that makes it possible to accumulate
684 ;; advice information without having the original function already defined,
685 ;; 2) special versions of the built-in functions `fset/defalias' which check
686 ;; for advice information whenever they define a function. If advice
687 ;; information was found then the advice will immediately get activated when
688 ;; the function gets defined.
689
690 ;; Automatic advice activation means, that whenever a function gets defined
691 ;; with either `defun', `defmacro', `fset' or by loading a byte-compiled
692 ;; file, and the function has some advice-info stored with it then that
693 ;; advice will get activated right away.
694
695 ;; @@@ Enabling automatic advice activation:
696 ;; =========================================
697 ;; Automatic advice activation is enabled by default. It can be disabled by
698 ;; doint `M-x ad-stop-advice' and enabled again with `M-x ad-start-advice'.
699
700 ;; @@ Caching of advised definitions:
701 ;; ==================================
702 ;; After an advised definition got constructed it gets cached as part of the
703 ;; advised function's advice-info so it can be reused, for example, after an
704 ;; intermediate deactivation. Because the advice-info of a function might
705 ;; change between the time of caching and reuse a cached definition gets
706 ;; a cache-id associated with it so it can be verified whether the cached
707 ;; definition is still valid (the main application of this is preactivation
708 ;; - see below).
709
710 ;; When an advised function gets activated and a verifiable cached definition
711 ;; is available, then that definition will be used instead of creating a new
712 ;; advised definition from scratch. If you want to make sure that a new
713 ;; definition gets constructed then you should use `ad-clear-cache' before you
714 ;; activate the advised function.
715
716 ;; @@ Preactivation:
717 ;; =================
718 ;; Constructing an advised definition is moderately expensive. In a situation
719 ;; where one package defines a lot of advised functions it might be
720 ;; prohibitively expensive to do all the advised definition construction at
721 ;; runtime. Preactivation is a mechanism that allows compile-time construction
722 ;; of compiled advised definitions that can be activated cheaply during
723 ;; runtime. Preactivation uses the caching mechanism to do that. Here's how it
724 ;; works:
725
726 ;; When the byte-compiler compiles a `defadvice' that has the `preactivate'
727 ;; flag specified, it uses the current original definition of the advised
728 ;; function plus the advice specified in this `defadvice' (even if it is
729 ;; specified as disabled) and all other currently enabled pieces of advice to
730 ;; construct an advised definition and an identifying cache-id and makes them
731 ;; part of the `defadvice' expansion which will then be compiled by the
732 ;; byte-compiler (to ensure that in a v18 emacs you have to put the
733 ;; `defadvice' inside a `defun' to get it compiled and then you have to call
734 ;; that compiled `defun' in order to actually execute the `defadvice'). When
735 ;; the file with the compiled, preactivating `defadvice' gets loaded the
736 ;; precompiled advised definition will be cached on the advised function's
737 ;; advice-info. When it gets activated (can be immediately on execution of the
738 ;; `defadvice' or any time later) the cache-id gets checked against the
739 ;; current state of advice and if it is verified the precompiled definition
740 ;; will be used directly (the verification is pretty cheap). If it couldn't get
741 ;; verified a new advised definition for that function will be built from
742 ;; scratch, hence, the efficiency added by the preactivation mechanism does
743 ;; not at all impair the flexibility of the advice mechanism.
744
745 ;; MORAL: In order get all the efficiency out of preactivation the advice
746 ;; state of an advised function at the time the file with the
747 ;; preactivating `defadvice' gets byte-compiled should be exactly
748 ;; the same as it will be when the advice of that function gets
749 ;; actually activated. If it is not there is a high chance that the
750 ;; cache-id will not match and hence a new advised definition will
751 ;; have to be constructed at runtime.
752
753 ;; Preactivation and forward advice do not contradict each other. It is
754 ;; perfectly ok to load a file with a preactivating `defadvice' before the
755 ;; original definition of the advised function is available. The constructed
756 ;; advised definition will be used once the original function gets defined and
757 ;; its advice gets activated. The only constraint is that at the time the
758 ;; file with the preactivating `defadvice' got compiled the original function
759 ;; definition was available.
760
761 ;; TIPS: Here are some indications that a preactivation did not work the way
762 ;; you intended it to work:
763 ;; - Activation of the advised function takes longer than usual/expected
764 ;; - The byte-compiler gets loaded while an advised function gets
765 ;; activated
766 ;; - `byte-compile' is part of the `features' variable even though you
767 ;; did not use the byte-compiler
768 ;; Right now advice does not provide an elegant way to find out whether
769 ;; and why a preactivation failed. What you can do is to trace the
770 ;; function `ad-cache-id-verification-code' (with the function
771 ;; `trace-function-background' defined in my trace.el package) before
772 ;; any of your advised functions get activated. After they got
773 ;; activated check whether all calls to `ad-cache-id-verification-code'
774 ;; returned `verified' as a result. Other values indicate why the
775 ;; verification failed which should give you enough information to
776 ;; fix your preactivation/compile/load/activation sequence.
777
778 ;; IMPORTANT: There is one case (that I am aware of) that can make
779 ;; preactivation fail, i.e., a preconstructed advised definition that does
780 ;; NOT match the current state of advice gets used nevertheless. That case
781 ;; arises if one package defines a certain piece of advice which gets used
782 ;; during preactivation, and another package incompatibly redefines that
783 ;; very advice (i.e., same function/class/name), and it is the second advice
784 ;; that is available when the preconstructed definition gets activated, and
785 ;; that was the only definition of that advice so far (`ad-add-advice'
786 ;; catches advice redefinitions and clears the cache in such a case).
787 ;; Catching that would make the cache verification too expensive.
788
789 ;; MORAL-II: Redefining somebody else's advice is BAAAAD (to speak with
790 ;; George Walker Bush), and why would you redefine your own advice anyway?
791 ;; Advice is a mechanism to facilitate function redefinition, not advice
792 ;; redefinition (wait until I write Meta-Advice :-). If you really have
793 ;; to undo somebody else's advice try to write a "neutralizing" advice.
794
795 ;; @@ Advising macros and special forms and other dangerous things:
796 ;; ================================================================
797 ;; Look at the corresponding tutorial sections for more information on
798 ;; these topics. Here it suffices to point out that the special treatment
799 ;; of macros and special forms by the byte-compiler can lead to problems
800 ;; when they get advised. Macros can create problems because they get
801 ;; expanded at compile time, hence, they might not have all the necessary
802 ;; runtime support and such advice cannot be de/activated or changed as
803 ;; it is possible for functions. Special forms create problems because they
804 ;; have to be advised "into" macros, i.e., an advised special form is a
805 ;; implemented as a macro, hence, in most cases the byte-compiler will
806 ;; not recognize it as a special form anymore which can lead to very strange
807 ;; results.
808 ;;
809 ;; MORAL: - Only advise macros or special forms when you are absolutely sure
810 ;; what you are doing.
811 ;; - As a safety measure, always do `ad-deactivate-all' before you
812 ;; byte-compile a file to make sure that even if some inconsiderate
813 ;; person advised some special forms you'll get proper compilation
814 ;; results. After compilation do `ad-activate-all' to get back to
815 ;; the previous state.
816
817 ;; @@ Adding a piece of advice with `ad-add-advice':
818 ;; =================================================
819 ;; The non-interactive function `ad-add-advice' can be used to add a piece of
820 ;; advice to some function without using `defadvice'. This is useful if advice
821 ;; has to be added somewhere by a function (also look at `ad-make-advice').
822
823 ;; @@ Activation/deactivation advices, file load hooks:
824 ;; ====================================================
825 ;; There are two special classes of advice called `activation' and
826 ;; `deactivation'. The body forms of these advices are not included into the
827 ;; advised definition of a function, rather they are assembled into a hook
828 ;; form which will be evaluated whenever the advice-info of the advised
829 ;; function gets activated or deactivated. One application of this mechanism
830 ;; is to define file load hooks for files that do not provide such hooks
831 ;; (v19s already come with a general file-load-hook mechanism, v18s don't).
832 ;; For example, suppose you want to print a message whenever `file-x' gets
833 ;; loaded, and suppose the last function defined in `file-x' is
834 ;; `file-x-last-fn'. Then we can define the following advice:
835 ;;
836 ;; (defadvice file-x-last-fn (activation file-x-load-hook)
837 ;; "Executed whenever file-x is loaded"
838 ;; (if load-in-progress (message "Loaded file-x")))
839 ;;
840 ;; This will constitute a forward advice for function `file-x-last-fn' which
841 ;; will get activated when `file-x' is loaded (only if forward advice is
842 ;; enabled of course). Because there are no "real" pieces of advice
843 ;; available for it, its definition will not be changed, but the activation
844 ;; advice will be run during its activation which is equivalent to having a
845 ;; file load hook for `file-x'.
846
847 ;; @@ Summary of main advice concepts:
848 ;; ===================================
849 ;; - Definition:
850 ;; A piece of advice gets defined with `defadvice' and added to the
851 ;; `advice-info' property of a function.
852 ;; - Enablement:
853 ;; Every piece of advice has an enablement flag associated with it. Only
854 ;; enabled advices are considered during construction of an advised
855 ;; definition.
856 ;; - Activation:
857 ;; Redefine an advised function with its advised definition. Constructs
858 ;; an advised definition from scratch if no verifiable cached advised
859 ;; definition is available and caches it.
860 ;; - Deactivation:
861 ;; Back-define an advised function to its original definition.
862 ;; - Update:
863 ;; Reactivate an advised function but only if its advice is currently
864 ;; active. This can be used to bring all currently advised function up
865 ;; to date with the current state of advice without also activating
866 ;; currently deactivated functions.
867 ;; - Caching:
868 ;; Is the saving of an advised definition and an identifying cache-id so
869 ;; it can be reused, for example, for activation after deactivation.
870 ;; - Preactivation:
871 ;; Is the construction of an advised definition according to the current
872 ;; state of advice during byte-compilation of a file with a preactivating
873 ;; `defadvice'. That advised definition can then rather cheaply be used
874 ;; during activation without having to construct an advised definition
875 ;; from scratch at runtime.
876
877 ;; @@ Summary of interactive advice manipulation functions:
878 ;; ========================================================
879 ;; The following interactive functions can be used to manipulate the state
880 ;; of advised functions (all of them support completion on function names,
881 ;; advice classes and advice names):
882
883 ;; - ad-activate to activate the advice of a FUNCTION
884 ;; - ad-deactivate to deactivate the advice of a FUNCTION
885 ;; - ad-update to activate the advice of a FUNCTION unless it was not
886 ;; yet activated or is currently deactivated.
887 ;; - ad-unadvise deactivates a FUNCTION and removes all of its advice
888 ;; information, hence, it cannot be activated again
889 ;; - ad-recover tries to redefine a FUNCTION to its original definition and
890 ;; discards all advice information (a low-level `ad-unadvise').
891 ;; Use only in emergencies.
892
893 ;; - ad-remove-advice removes a particular piece of advice of a FUNCTION.
894 ;; You still have to do call `ad-activate' or `ad-update' to
895 ;; activate the new state of advice.
896 ;; - ad-enable-advice enables a particular piece of advice of a FUNCTION.
897 ;; - ad-disable-advice disables a particular piece of advice of a FUNCTION.
898 ;; - ad-enable-regexp maps over all currently advised functions and enables
899 ;; every advice whose name contains a match for a regular
900 ;; expression.
901 ;; - ad-disable-regexp disables matching advices.
902
903 ;; - ad-activate-regexp activates all advised function with a matching advice
904 ;; - ad-deactivate-regexp deactivates all advised function with matching advice
905 ;; - ad-update-regexp updates all advised function with a matching advice
906 ;; - ad-activate-all activates all advised functions
907 ;; - ad-deactivate-all deactivates all advised functions
908 ;; - ad-update-all updates all advised functions
909 ;; - ad-unadvise-all unadvises all advised functions
910 ;; - ad-recover-all recovers all advised functions
911
912 ;; - ad-compile byte-compiles a function/macro if it is compilable.
913
914 ;; @@ Summary of forms with special meanings when used within an advice:
915 ;; =====================================================================
916 ;; ad-return-value name of the return value variable (get/settable)
917 ;; ad-subr-args name of &rest argument variable used for advised
918 ;; subrs whose actual argument list cannot be
919 ;; determined (get/settable)
920 ;; (ad-get-arg <pos>), (ad-get-args <pos>),
921 ;; (ad-set-arg <pos> <value>), (ad-set-args <pos> <value-list>)
922 ;; argument access text macros to get/set the values of
923 ;; actual arguments at a certain position
924 ;; ad-arg-bindings text macro that returns the actual names, values
925 ;; and types of the arguments as a list of bindings. The
926 ;; order of the bindings corresponds to the order of the
927 ;; arguments. The individual fields of every binding (name,
928 ;; value and type) can be accessed with the function
929 ;; `ad-arg-binding-field' (see example above).
930 ;; ad-do-it text macro that identifies the place where the original
931 ;; or wrapped definition should go in an around advice
932
933
934 ;; @ Foo games: An advice tutorial
935 ;; ===============================
936 ;; The following tutorial was created in Emacs 18.59. Left-justified
937 ;; s-expressions are input forms followed by one or more result forms.
938 ;; First we have to start the advice magic:
939 ;;
940 ;; (ad-start-advice)
941 ;; nil
942 ;;
943 ;; We start by defining an innocent looking function `foo' that simply
944 ;; adds 1 to its argument X:
945 ;;
946 ;; (defun foo (x)
947 ;; "Add 1 to X."
948 ;; (1+ x))
949 ;; foo
950 ;;
951 ;; (foo 3)
952 ;; 4
953 ;;
954 ;; @@ Defining a simple piece of advice:
955 ;; =====================================
956 ;; Now let's define the first piece of advice for `foo'. To do that we
957 ;; use the macro `defadvice' which takes a function name, a list of advice
958 ;; specifiers and a list of body forms as arguments. The first element of
959 ;; the advice specifiers is the class of the advice, the second is its name,
960 ;; the third its position and the rest are some flags. The class of our
961 ;; first advice is `before', its name is `fg-add2', its position among the
962 ;; currently defined before advices (none so far) is `first', and the advice
963 ;; will be `activate'ed immediately. Advice names are global symbols, hence,
964 ;; the name space conventions used for function names should be applied. All
965 ;; advice names in this tutorial will be prefixed with `fg' for `Foo Games'
966 ;; (because everybody has the right to be inconsistent all the function names
967 ;; used in this tutorial do NOT follow this convention).
968 ;;
969 ;; In the body of an advice we can refer to the argument variables of the
970 ;; original function by name. Here we add 1 to X so the effect of calling
971 ;; `foo' will be to actually add 2. All of the advice definitions below only
972 ;; have one body form for simplicity, but there is no restriction to that
973 ;; extent. Every piece of advice can have a documentation string which will
974 ;; be combined with the documentation of the original function.
975 ;;
976 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-add2 first activate)
977 ;; "Add 2 to X."
978 ;; (setq x (1+ x)))
979 ;; foo
980 ;;
981 ;; (foo 3)
982 ;; 5
983 ;;
984 ;; @@ Specifying the position of an advice:
985 ;; ========================================
986 ;; Now we define the second before advice which will cancel the effect of
987 ;; the previous advice. This time we specify the position as 0 which is
988 ;; equivalent to `first'. A number can be used to specify the zero-based
989 ;; position of an advice among the list of advices in the same class. This
990 ;; time we already have one before advice hence the position specification
991 ;; actually has an effect. So, after the following definition the position
992 ;; of the previous advice will be 1 even though we specified it with `first'
993 ;; above, the reason for this is that the position argument is relative to
994 ;; the currently defined pieces of advice which by now has changed.
995 ;;
996 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-cancel-add2 0 activate)
997 ;; "Again only add 1 to X."
998 ;; (setq x (1- x)))
999 ;; foo
1000 ;;
1001 ;; (foo 3)
1002 ;; 4
1003 ;;
1004 ;; @@ Redefining a piece of advice:
1005 ;; ================================
1006 ;; Now we define an advice with the same class and same name but with a
1007 ;; different position. Defining an advice in a class in which an advice with
1008 ;; that name already exists is interpreted as a redefinition of that
1009 ;; particular advice, in which case the position argument will be ignored
1010 ;; and the previous position of the redefined piece of advice is used.
1011 ;; Advice flags can be specified with non-ambiguous initial substrings, hence,
1012 ;; from now on we'll use `act' instead of the verbose `activate'.
1013 ;;
1014 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-cancel-add2 last act)
1015 ;; "Again only add 1 to X."
1016 ;; (setq x (1- x)))
1017 ;; foo
1018 ;;
1019 ;; @@ Assembly of advised documentation:
1020 ;; =====================================
1021 ;; The documentation strings of the various pieces of advice are assembled
1022 ;; in order which shows that advice `fg-cancel-add2' is still the first
1023 ;; `before' advice even though we specified position `last' above:
1024 ;;
1025 ;; (documentation 'foo)
1026 ;; "Add 1 to X.
1027 ;;
1028 ;; This function is advised with the following advice(s):
1029 ;;
1030 ;; fg-cancel-add2 (before):
1031 ;; Again only add 1 to X.
1032 ;;
1033 ;; fg-add2 (before):
1034 ;; Add 2 to X."
1035 ;;
1036 ;; @@ Advising interactive behavior:
1037 ;; =================================
1038 ;; We can make a function interactive (or change its interactive behavior)
1039 ;; by specifying an interactive form in one of the before or around
1040 ;; advices (there could also be body forms in this advice). The particular
1041 ;; definition always assigns 5 as an argument to X which gives us 6 as a
1042 ;; result when we call foo interactively:
1043 ;;
1044 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-inter last act)
1045 ;; "Use 5 as argument when called interactively."
1046 ;; (interactive (list 5)))
1047 ;; foo
1048 ;;
1049 ;; (call-interactively 'foo)
1050 ;; 6
1051 ;;
1052 ;; If more than one advice have an interactive declaration, then the one of
1053 ;; the advice with the smallest position will be used (before advices go
1054 ;; before around and after advices), hence, the declaration below does
1055 ;; not have any effect:
1056 ;;
1057 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-inter2 last act)
1058 ;; (interactive (list 6)))
1059 ;; foo
1060 ;;
1061 ;; (call-interactively 'foo)
1062 ;; 6
1063 ;;
1064 ;; Let's have a look at what the definition of `foo' looks like now
1065 ;; (indentation added by hand for legibility):
1066 ;;
1067 ;; (symbol-function 'foo)
1068 ;; (lambda (x)
1069 ;; "$ad-doc: foo$"
1070 ;; (interactive (list 5))
1071 ;; (let (ad-return-value)
1072 ;; (setq x (1- x))
1073 ;; (setq x (1+ x))
1074 ;; (setq ad-return-value (ad-Orig-foo x))
1075 ;; ad-return-value))
1076 ;;
1077 ;; @@ Around advices:
1078 ;; ==================
1079 ;; Now we'll try some `around' advices. An around advice is a wrapper around
1080 ;; the original definition. It can shadow or establish bindings for the
1081 ;; original definition, and it can look at and manipulate the value returned
1082 ;; by the original function. The position of the special keyword `ad-do-it'
1083 ;; specifies where the code of the original function will be executed. The
1084 ;; keyword can appear multiple times which will result in multiple calls of
1085 ;; the original function in the resulting advised code. Note, that if we don't
1086 ;; specify a position argument (i.e., `first', `last' or a number), then
1087 ;; `first' (or 0) is the default):
1088 ;;
1089 ;; (defadvice foo (around fg-times-2 act)
1090 ;; "First double X."
1091 ;; (let ((x (* x 2)))
1092 ;; ad-do-it))
1093 ;; foo
1094 ;;
1095 ;; (foo 3)
1096 ;; 7
1097 ;;
1098 ;; Around advices are assembled like onion skins where the around advice
1099 ;; with position 0 is the outermost skin and the advice at the last position
1100 ;; is the innermost skin which is directly wrapped around the call of the
1101 ;; original definition of the function. Hence, after the next `defadvice' we
1102 ;; will first multiply X by 2 then add 1 and then call the original
1103 ;; definition (i.e., add 1 again):
1104 ;;
1105 ;; (defadvice foo (around fg-add-1 last act)
1106 ;; "Add 1 to X."
1107 ;; (let ((x (1+ x)))
1108 ;; ad-do-it))
1109 ;; foo
1110 ;;
1111 ;; (foo 3)
1112 ;; 8
1113 ;;
1114 ;; Again, let's see what the definition of `foo' looks like so far:
1115 ;;
1116 ;; (symbol-function 'foo)
1117 ;; (lambda (x)
1118 ;; "$ad-doc: foo$"
1119 ;; (interactive (list 5))
1120 ;; (let (ad-return-value)
1121 ;; (setq x (1- x))
1122 ;; (setq x (1+ x))
1123 ;; (let ((x (* x 2)))
1124 ;; (let ((x (1+ x)))
1125 ;; (setq ad-return-value (ad-Orig-foo x))))
1126 ;; ad-return-value))
1127 ;;
1128 ;; @@ Controlling advice activation:
1129 ;; =================================
1130 ;; In every `defadvice' so far we have used the flag `activate' to activate
1131 ;; the advice immediately after its definition, and that's what we want in
1132 ;; most cases. However, if we define multiple pieces of advice for a single
1133 ;; function then activating every advice immediately is inefficient. A
1134 ;; better way to do this is to only activate the last defined advice.
1135 ;; For example:
1136 ;;
1137 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-times-x)
1138 ;; "Multiply the result with X."
1139 ;; (setq ad-return-value (* ad-return-value x)))
1140 ;; foo
1141 ;;
1142 ;; This still yields the same result as before:
1143 ;; (foo 3)
1144 ;; 8
1145 ;;
1146 ;; Now we define another advice and activate which will also activate the
1147 ;; previous advice `fg-times-x'. Note the use of the special variable
1148 ;; `ad-return-value' in the body of the advice which is set to the result of
1149 ;; the original function. If we change its value then the value returned by
1150 ;; the advised function will be changed accordingly:
1151 ;;
1152 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-times-x-again act)
1153 ;; "Again multiply the result with X."
1154 ;; (setq ad-return-value (* ad-return-value x)))
1155 ;; foo
1156 ;;
1157 ;; Now the advices have an effect:
1158 ;;
1159 ;; (foo 3)
1160 ;; 72
1161 ;;
1162 ;; @@ Protecting advice execution:
1163 ;; ===============================
1164 ;; Once in a while we define an advice to perform some cleanup action,
1165 ;; for example:
1166 ;;
1167 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-cleanup last act)
1168 ;; "Do some cleanup."
1169 ;; (print "Let's clean up now!"))
1170 ;; foo
1171 ;;
1172 ;; However, in case of an error the cleanup won't be performed:
1173 ;;
1174 ;; (condition-case error
1175 ;; (foo t)
1176 ;; (error 'error-in-foo))
1177 ;; error-in-foo
1178 ;;
1179 ;; To make sure a certain piece of advice gets executed even if some error or
1180 ;; non-local exit occurred in any preceding code, we can protect it by using
1181 ;; the `protect' keyword. (if any of the around advices is protected then the
1182 ;; whole around advice onion will be protected):
1183 ;;
1184 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-cleanup prot act)
1185 ;; "Do some protected cleanup."
1186 ;; (print "Let's clean up now!"))
1187 ;; foo
1188 ;;
1189 ;; Now the cleanup form will be executed even in case of an error:
1190 ;;
1191 ;; (condition-case error
1192 ;; (foo t)
1193 ;; (error 'error-in-foo))
1194 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1195 ;; error-in-foo
1196 ;;
1197 ;; Again, let's see what `foo' looks like:
1198 ;;
1199 ;; (symbol-function 'foo)
1200 ;; (lambda (x)
1201 ;; "$ad-doc: foo$"
1202 ;; (interactive (list 5))
1203 ;; (let (ad-return-value)
1204 ;; (unwind-protect
1205 ;; (progn (setq x (1- x))
1206 ;; (setq x (1+ x))
1207 ;; (let ((x (* x 2)))
1208 ;; (let ((x (1+ x)))
1209 ;; (setq ad-return-value (ad-Orig-foo x))))
1210 ;; (setq ad-return-value (* ad-return-value x))
1211 ;; (setq ad-return-value (* ad-return-value x)))
1212 ;; (print "Let's clean up now!"))
1213 ;; ad-return-value))
1214 ;;
1215 ;; @@ Compilation of advised definitions:
1216 ;; ======================================
1217 ;; Finally, we can specify the `compile' keyword in a `defadvice' to say
1218 ;; that we want the resulting advised function to be byte-compiled
1219 ;; (`compile' will be ignored unless we also specified `activate'):
1220 ;;
1221 ;; (defadvice foo (after fg-cleanup prot act comp)
1222 ;; "Do some protected cleanup."
1223 ;; (print "Let's clean up now!"))
1224 ;; foo
1225 ;;
1226 ;; Now `foo' is byte-compiled:
1227 ;;
1228 ;; (symbol-function 'foo)
1229 ;; (lambda (x)
1230 ;; "$ad-doc: foo$"
1231 ;; (interactive (byte-code "....." [5] 1))
1232 ;; (byte-code "....." [ad-return-value x nil ((byte-code "....." [print "Let's clean up now!"] 2)) * 2 ad-Orig-foo] 6))
1233 ;;
1234 ;; (foo 3)
1235 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1236 ;; 72
1237 ;;
1238 ;; @@ Enabling and disabling pieces of advice:
1239 ;; ===========================================
1240 ;; Once in a while it is desirable to temporarily disable a piece of advice
1241 ;; so that it won't be considered during activation, for example, if two
1242 ;; different packages advise the same function and one wants to temporarily
1243 ;; neutralize the effect of the advice of one of the packages.
1244 ;;
1245 ;; The following disables the after advice `fg-times-x' in the function `foo'.
1246 ;; All that does is to change a flag for this particular advice. All the
1247 ;; other information defining it will be left unchanged (e.g., its relative
1248 ;; position in this advice class, etc.).
1249 ;;
1250 ;; (ad-disable-advice 'foo 'after 'fg-times-x)
1251 ;; nil
1252 ;;
1253 ;; For this to have an effect we have to activate `foo':
1254 ;;
1255 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
1256 ;; foo
1257 ;;
1258 ;; (foo 3)
1259 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1260 ;; 24
1261 ;;
1262 ;; If we want to disable all multiplication advices in `foo' we can use a
1263 ;; regular expression that matches the names of such advices. Actually, any
1264 ;; advice name that contains a match for the regular expression will be
1265 ;; called a match. A special advice class `any' can be used to consider
1266 ;; all advice classes:
1267 ;;
1268 ;; (ad-disable-advice 'foo 'any "^fg-.*times")
1269 ;; nil
1270 ;;
1271 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
1272 ;; foo
1273 ;;
1274 ;; (foo 3)
1275 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1276 ;; 5
1277 ;;
1278 ;; To enable the disabled advice we could use either `ad-enable-advice'
1279 ;; similar to `ad-disable-advice', or as an alternative `ad-enable-regexp'
1280 ;; which will enable matching advices in ALL currently advised functions.
1281 ;; Hence, this can be used to dis/enable advices made by a particular
1282 ;; package to a set of functions as long as that package obeys standard
1283 ;; advice name conventions. We prefixed all advice names with `fg-', hence
1284 ;; the following will do the trick (`ad-enable-regexp' returns the number
1285 ;; of matched advices):
1286 ;;
1287 ;; (ad-enable-regexp "^fg-")
1288 ;; 9
1289 ;;
1290 ;; The following will activate all currently active advised functions that
1291 ;; contain some advice matched by the regular expression. This is a save
1292 ;; way to update the activation of advised functions whose advice changed
1293 ;; in some way or other without accidentally also activating currently
1294 ;; deactivated functions:
1295 ;;
1296 ;; (ad-update-regexp "^fg-")
1297 ;; nil
1298 ;;
1299 ;; (foo 3)
1300 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1301 ;; 72
1302 ;;
1303 ;; Another use for the dis/enablement mechanism is to define a piece of advice
1304 ;; and keep it "dormant" until a particular condition is satisfied, i.e., until
1305 ;; then the advice will not be used during activation. The `disable' flag lets
1306 ;; one do that with `defadvice':
1307 ;;
1308 ;; (defadvice foo (before fg-1-more dis)
1309 ;; "Add yet 1 more."
1310 ;; (setq x (1+ x)))
1311 ;; foo
1312 ;;
1313 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
1314 ;; foo
1315 ;;
1316 ;; (foo 3)
1317 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1318 ;; 72
1319 ;;
1320 ;; (ad-enable-advice 'foo 'before 'fg-1-more)
1321 ;; nil
1322 ;;
1323 ;; (ad-activate 'foo)
1324 ;; foo
1325 ;;
1326 ;; (foo 3)
1327 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1328 ;; 160
1329 ;;
1330 ;; @@ Caching:
1331 ;; ===========
1332 ;; Advised definitions get cached to allow efficient activation/deactivation
1333 ;; without having to reconstruct them if nothing in the advice-info of a
1334 ;; function has changed. The following idiom can be used to temporarily
1335 ;; deactivate functions that have a piece of advice defined by a certain
1336 ;; package (we save the old definition to check out caching):
1337 ;;
1338 ;; (setq old-definition (symbol-function 'foo))
1339 ;; (lambda (x) ....)
1340 ;;
1341 ;; (ad-deactivate-regexp "^fg-")
1342 ;; nil
1343 ;;
1344 ;; (foo 3)
1345 ;; 4
1346 ;;
1347 ;; (ad-activate-regexp "^fg-")
1348 ;; nil
1349 ;;
1350 ;; (eq old-definition (symbol-function 'foo))
1351 ;; t
1352 ;;
1353 ;; (foo 3)
1354 ;; "Let's clean up now!"
1355 ;; 160
1356 ;;
1357 ;; @@ Forward advice:
1358 ;; ==================
1359 ;; To enable automatic activation of forward advice we first have to set
1360 ;; `ad-activate-on-definition' to t and restart advice:
1361 ;;
1362 ;; (setq ad-activate-on-definition t)
1363 ;; t
1364 ;;
1365 ;; (ad-start-advice)
1366 ;; (ad-activate-defined-function)
1367 ;;
1368 ;; Let's define a piece of advice for an undefined function:
1369 ;;
1370 ;; (defadvice bar (before fg-sub-1-more act)
1371 ;; "Subtract one more from X."
1372 ;; (setq x (1- x)))
1373 ;; bar
1374 ;;
1375 ;; `bar' is not yet defined:
1376 ;; (fboundp 'bar)
1377 ;; nil
1378 ;;
1379 ;; Now we define it and the forward advice will get activated (only because
1380 ;; `ad-activate-on-definition' was t when we started advice above with
1381 ;; `ad-start-advice'):
1382 ;;
1383 ;; (defun bar (x)
1384 ;; "Subtract 1 from X."
1385 ;; (1- x))
1386 ;; bar
1387 ;;
1388 ;; (bar 4)
1389 ;; 2
1390 ;;
1391 ;; Redefinition will activate any available advice if the value of
1392 ;; `ad-redefinition-action' is either `warn', `accept' or `discard':
1393 ;;
1394 ;; (defun bar (x)
1395 ;; "Subtract 2 from X."
1396 ;; (- x 2))
1397 ;; bar
1398 ;;
1399 ;; (bar 4)
1400 ;; 1
1401 ;;
1402 ;; @@ Preactivation:
1403 ;; =================
1404 ;; Constructing advised definitions is moderately expensive, hence, it is
1405 ;; desirable to have a way to construct them at byte-compile time.
1406 ;; Preactivation is a mechanism that allows one to do that.
1407 ;;
1408 ;; (defun fie (x)
1409 ;; "Multiply X by 2."
1410 ;; (* x 2))
1411 ;; fie
1412 ;;
1413 ;; (defadvice fie (before fg-times-4 preact)
1414 ;; "Multiply X by 4."
1415 ;; (setq x (* x 2)))
1416 ;; fie
1417 ;;
1418 ;; This advice did not affect `fie'...
1419 ;;
1420 ;; (fie 2)
1421 ;; 4
1422 ;;
1423 ;; ...but it constructed a cached definition that will be used once `fie' gets
1424 ;; activated as long as its current advice state is the same as it was during
1425 ;; preactivation:
1426 ;;
1427 ;; (setq cached-definition (ad-get-cache-definition 'fie))
1428 ;; (lambda (x) ....)
1429 ;;
1430 ;; (ad-activate 'fie)
1431 ;; fie
1432 ;;
1433 ;; (eq cached-definition (symbol-function 'fie))
1434 ;; t
1435 ;;
1436 ;; (fie 2)
1437 ;; 8
1438 ;;
1439 ;; If you put a preactivating `defadvice' into an elisp file that gets byte-
1440 ;; compiled then the constructed advised definition will get compiled by
1441 ;; the byte-compiler. For that to occur in a v18 emacs you have to put the
1442 ;; `defadvice' inside a `defun' because the v18 compiler does not compile
1443 ;; top-level forms other than `defun' or `defmacro', for example,
1444 ;;
1445 ;; (defun fg-defadvice-fum ()
1446 ;; (defadvice fum (before fg-times-4 preact act)
1447 ;; "Multiply X by 4."
1448 ;; (setq x (* x 2))))
1449 ;; fg-defadvice-fum
1450 ;;
1451 ;; So far, no `defadvice' for `fum' got executed, but when we compile
1452 ;; `fg-defadvice-fum' the `defadvice' will be expanded by the byte compiler.
1453 ;; In order for preactivation to be effective we have to have a proper
1454 ;; definition of `fum' around at preactivation time, hence, we define it now:
1455 ;;
1456 ;; (defun fum (x)
1457 ;; "Multiply X by 2."
1458 ;; (* x 2))
1459 ;; fum
1460 ;;
1461 ;; Now we compile the defining function which will construct an advised
1462 ;; definition during expansion of the `defadvice', compile it and store it
1463 ;; as part of the compiled `fg-defadvice-fum':
1464 ;;
1465 ;; (ad-compile-function 'fg-defadvice-fum)
1466 ;; (lambda nil (byte-code ...))
1467 ;;
1468 ;; `fum' is still completely unaffected:
1469 ;;
1470 ;; (fum 2)
1471 ;; 4
1472 ;;
1473 ;; (ad-get-advice-info 'fum)
1474 ;; nil
1475 ;;
1476 ;; (fg-defadvice-fum)
1477 ;; fum
1478 ;;
1479 ;; Now the advised version of `fum' is compiled because the compiled definition
1480 ;; constructed during preactivation was used, even though we did not specify
1481 ;; the `compile' flag:
1482 ;;
1483 ;; (symbol-function 'fum)
1484 ;; (lambda (x)
1485 ;; "$ad-doc: fum$"
1486 ;; (byte-code "....." [ad-return-value x nil * 2 ad-Orig-fum] 4))
1487 ;;
1488 ;; (fum 2)
1489 ;; 8
1490 ;;
1491 ;; A preactivated definition will only be used if it matches the current
1492 ;; function definition and advice information. If it does not match it
1493 ;; will simply be discarded and a new advised definition will be constructed
1494 ;; from scratch. For example, let's first remove all advice-info for `fum':
1495 ;;
1496 ;; (ad-unadvise 'fum)
1497 ;; (("fie") ("bar") ("foo") ...)
1498 ;;
1499 ;; And now define a new piece of advice:
1500 ;;
1501 ;; (defadvice fum (before fg-interactive act)
1502 ;; "Make fum interactive."
1503 ;; (interactive "nEnter x: "))
1504 ;; fum
1505 ;;
1506 ;; When we now try to use a preactivation it will not be used because the
1507 ;; current advice state is different from the one at preactivation time. This
1508 ;; is no tragedy, everything will work as expected just not as efficient,
1509 ;; because a new advised definition has to be constructed from scratch:
1510 ;;
1511 ;; (fg-defadvice-fum)
1512 ;; fum
1513 ;;
1514 ;; A new uncompiled advised definition got constructed:
1515 ;;
1516 ;; (ad-compiled-p (symbol-function 'fum))
1517 ;; nil
1518 ;;
1519 ;; (fum 2)
1520 ;; 8
1521 ;;
1522 ;; MORAL: To get all the efficiency out of preactivation the function
1523 ;; definition and advice state at preactivation time must be the same as the
1524 ;; state at activation time. Preactivation does work with forward advice, all
1525 ;; that's necessary is that the definition of the forward advised function is
1526 ;; available when the `defadvice' with the preactivation gets compiled.
1527 ;;
1528 ;; @@ Portable argument access:
1529 ;; ============================
1530 ;; So far, we always used the actual argument variable names to access an
1531 ;; argument in a piece of advice. For many advice applications this is
1532 ;; perfectly ok and keeps advices simple. However, it decreases portability
1533 ;; of advices because it assumes specific argument variable names. For example,
1534 ;; if one advises a subr such as `eval-region' which then gets redefined by
1535 ;; some package (e.g., edebug) into a function with different argument names,
1536 ;; then a piece of advice written for `eval-region' that was written with
1537 ;; the subr arguments in mind will break. Similar situations arise when one
1538 ;; switches between major Emacs versions, e.g., certain subrs in v18 are
1539 ;; functions in v19 and vice versa. Also, in v19s subr argument lists
1540 ;; are available and will be used, while they are not available in v18.
1541 ;;
1542 ;; Argument access text macros allow one to access arguments of an advised
1543 ;; function in a portable way without having to worry about all these
1544 ;; possibilities. These macros will be translated into the proper access forms
1545 ;; at activation time, hence, argument access will be as efficient as if
1546 ;; the arguments had been used directly in the definition of the advice.
1547 ;;
1548 ;; (defun fuu (x y z)
1549 ;; "Add 3 numbers."
1550 ;; (+ x y z))
1551 ;; fuu
1552 ;;
1553 ;; (fuu 1 1 1)
1554 ;; 3
1555 ;;
1556 ;; Argument access macros specify actual arguments at a certain position.
1557 ;; Position 0 access the first actual argument, position 1 the second etc.
1558 ;; For example, the following advice adds 1 to each of the 3 arguments:
1559 ;;
1560 ;; (defadvice fuu (before fg-add-1-to-all act)
1561 ;; "Adds 1 to all arguments."
1562 ;; (ad-set-arg 0 (1+ (ad-get-arg 0)))
1563 ;; (ad-set-arg 1 (1+ (ad-get-arg 1)))
1564 ;; (ad-set-arg 2 (1+ (ad-get-arg 2))))
1565 ;; fuu
1566 ;;
1567 ;; (fuu 1 1 1)
1568 ;; 6
1569 ;;
1570 ;; Now suppose somebody redefines `fuu' with a rest argument. Our advice
1571 ;; will still work because we used access macros (note, that automatic
1572 ;; advice activation is still in effect, hence, the redefinition of `fuu'
1573 ;; will automatically activate all its advice):
1574 ;;
1575 ;; (defun fuu (&rest numbers)
1576 ;; "Add NUMBERS."
1577 ;; (apply '+ numbers))
1578 ;; fuu
1579 ;;
1580 ;; (fuu 1 1 1)
1581 ;; 6
1582 ;;
1583 ;; (fuu 1 1 1 1 1 1)
1584 ;; 9
1585 ;;
1586 ;; What's important to notice is that argument access macros access actual
1587 ;; arguments regardless of how they got distributed onto argument variables.
1588 ;; In Emacs Lisp the semantics of an actual argument is determined purely
1589 ;; by position, hence, as long as nobody changes the semantics of what a
1590 ;; certain actual argument at a certain position means the access macros
1591 ;; will do the right thing.
1592 ;;
1593 ;; Because of &rest arguments we need a second kind of access macro that
1594 ;; can access all actual arguments starting from a certain position:
1595 ;;
1596 ;; (defadvice fuu (before fg-print-args act)
1597 ;; "Print all arguments."
1598 ;; (print (ad-get-args 0)))
1599 ;; fuu
1600 ;;
1601 ;; (fuu 1 2 3 4 5)
1602 ;; (1 2 3 4 5)
1603 ;; 18
1604 ;;
1605 ;; (defadvice fuu (before fg-set-args act)
1606 ;; "Swaps 2nd and 3rd arg and discards all the rest."
1607 ;; (ad-set-args 1 (list (ad-get-arg 2) (ad-get-arg 1))))
1608 ;; fuu
1609 ;;
1610 ;; (fuu 1 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4)
1611 ;; (1 3 2)
1612 ;; 9
1613 ;;
1614 ;; (defun fuu (x y z)
1615 ;; "Add 3 numbers."
1616 ;; (+ x y z))
1617 ;;
1618 ;; (fuu 1 2 3)
1619 ;; (1 3 2)
1620 ;; 9
1621 ;;
1622 ;; @@ Defining the argument list of an advised function:
1623 ;; =====================================================
1624 ;; Once in a while it might be desirable to advise a function and additionally
1625 ;; give it an extra argument that controls the advised code, for example, one
1626 ;; might want to make an interactive function sensitive to a prefix argument.
1627 ;; For such cases `defadvice' allows the specification of an argument list
1628 ;; for the advised function. Similar to the redefinition of interactive
1629 ;; behavior, the first argument list specification found in the list of before/
1630 ;; around/after advices will be used. Of course, the specified argument list
1631 ;; should be downward compatible with the original argument list, otherwise
1632 ;; functions that call the advised function with the original argument list
1633 ;; in mind will break.
1634 ;;
1635 ;; (defun fii (x)
1636 ;; "Add 1 to X."
1637 ;; (1+ x))
1638 ;; fii
1639 ;;
1640 ;; Now we advise `fii' to use an optional second argument that controls the
1641 ;; amount of incrementation. A list following the (optional) position
1642 ;; argument of the advice will be interpreted as an argument list
1643 ;; specification. This means you cannot specify an empty argument list, and
1644 ;; why would you want to anyway?
1645 ;;
1646 ;; (defadvice fii (before fg-inc-x (x &optional incr) act)
1647 ;; "Increment X by INCR (default is 1)."
1648 ;; (setq x (+ x (1- (or incr 1)))))
1649 ;; fii
1650 ;;
1651 ;; (fii 3)
1652 ;; 4
1653 ;;
1654 ;; (fii 3 2)
1655 ;; 5
1656 ;;
1657 ;; @@ Specifying argument lists of subrs:
1658 ;; ======================================
1659 ;; The argument lists of subrs cannot be determined directly from Lisp.
1660 ;; This means that Advice has to use `(&rest ad-subr-args)' as the
1661 ;; argument list of the advised subr which is not very efficient. In Lemacs
1662 ;; subr argument lists can be determined from their documentation string, in
1663 ;; Emacs-19 this is the case for some but not all subrs. To accommodate
1664 ;; for the cases where the argument lists cannot be determined (e.g., in a
1665 ;; v18 Emacs) Advice comes with a specification mechanism that allows the
1666 ;; advice programmer to tell advice what the argument list of a certain subr
1667 ;; really is.
1668 ;;
1669 ;; In a v18 Emacs the following will return the &rest idiom:
1670 ;;
1671 ;; (ad-arglist (symbol-function 'car))
1672 ;; (&rest ad-subr-args)
1673 ;;
1674 ;; To tell advice what the argument list of `car' really is we
1675 ;; can do the following:
1676 ;;
1677 ;; (ad-define-subr-args 'car '(list))
1678 ;; ((list))
1679 ;;
1680 ;; Now `ad-arglist' will return the proper argument list (this method is
1681 ;; actually used by advice itself for the advised definition of `fset'):
1682 ;;
1683 ;; (ad-arglist (symbol-function 'car))
1684 ;; (list)
1685 ;;
1686 ;; The defined argument list will be stored on the property list of the
1687 ;; subr name symbol. When advice looks for a subr argument list it first
1688 ;; checks for a definition on the property list, if that fails it tries
1689 ;; to infer it from the documentation string and caches it on the property
1690 ;; list if it was successful, otherwise `(&rest ad-subr-args)' will be used.
1691 ;;
1692 ;; @@ Advising interactive subrs:
1693 ;; ==============================
1694 ;; For the most part there is no difference between advising functions and
1695 ;; advising subrs. There is one situation though where one might have to write
1696 ;; slightly different advice code for subrs than for functions. This case
1697 ;; arises when one wants to access subr arguments in a before/around advice
1698 ;; when the arguments were determined by an interactive call to the subr.
1699 ;; Advice cannot determine what `interactive' form determines the interactive
1700 ;; behavior of the subr, hence, when it calls the original definition in an
1701 ;; interactive subr invocation it has to use `call-interactively' to generate
1702 ;; the proper interactive behavior. Thus up to that call the arguments of the
1703 ;; interactive subr will be nil. For example, the following advice for
1704 ;; `kill-buffer' will not work in an interactive invocation...
1705 ;;
1706 ;; (defadvice kill-buffer (before fg-kill-buffer-hook first act preact comp)
1707 ;; (my-before-kill-buffer-hook (ad-get-arg 0)))
1708 ;; kill-buffer
1709 ;;
1710 ;; ...because the buffer argument will be nil in that case. The way out of
1711 ;; this dilemma is to provide an `interactive' specification that mirrors
1712 ;; the interactive behavior of the unadvised subr, for example, the following
1713 ;; will do the right thing even when `kill-buffer' is called interactively:
1714 ;;
1715 ;; (defadvice kill-buffer (before fg-kill-buffer-hook first act preact comp)
1716 ;; (interactive "bKill buffer: ")
1717 ;; (my-before-kill-buffer-hook (ad-get-arg 0)))
1718 ;; kill-buffer
1719 ;;
1720 ;; @@ Advising macros:
1721 ;; ===================
1722 ;; Advising macros is slightly different because there are two significant
1723 ;; time points in the invocation of a macro: Expansion and evaluation time.
1724 ;; For an advised macro instead of evaluating the original definition we
1725 ;; use `macroexpand', that is, changing argument values and binding
1726 ;; environments by pieces of advice has an affect during macro expansion
1727 ;; but not necessarily during evaluation. In particular, any side effects
1728 ;; of pieces of advice will occur during macro expansion. To also affect
1729 ;; the behavior during evaluation time one has to change the value of
1730 ;; `ad-return-value' in a piece of after advice. For example:
1731 ;;
1732 ;; (defmacro foom (x)
1733 ;; (` (list (, x))))
1734 ;; foom
1735 ;;
1736 ;; (foom '(a))
1737 ;; ((a))
1738 ;;
1739 ;; (defadvice foom (before fg-print-x act)
1740 ;; "Print the value of X."
1741 ;; (print x))
1742 ;; foom
1743 ;;
1744 ;; The following works as expected because evaluation immediately follows
1745 ;; macro expansion:
1746 ;;
1747 ;; (foom '(a))
1748 ;; (quote (a))
1749 ;; ((a))
1750 ;;
1751 ;; However, the printing happens during expansion (or byte-compile) time:
1752 ;;
1753 ;; (macroexpand '(foom '(a)))
1754 ;; (quote (a))
1755 ;; (list (quote (a)))
1756 ;;
1757 ;; If we want it to happen during evaluation time we have to do the
1758 ;; following (first remove the old advice):
1759 ;;
1760 ;; (ad-remove-advice 'foom 'before 'fg-print-x)
1761 ;; nil
1762 ;;
1763 ;; (defadvice foom (after fg-print-x act)
1764 ;; "Print the value of X."
1765 ;; (setq ad-return-value
1766 ;; (` (progn (print (, x))
1767 ;; (, ad-return-value)))))
1768 ;; foom
1769 ;;
1770 ;; (macroexpand '(foom '(a)))
1771 ;; (progn (print (quote (a))) (list (quote (a))))
1772 ;;
1773 ;; (foom '(a))
1774 ;; (a)
1775 ;; ((a))
1776 ;;
1777 ;; While this method might seem somewhat cumbersome, it is very general
1778 ;; because it allows one to influence macro expansion as well as evaluation.
1779 ;; In general, advising macros should be a rather rare activity anyway, in
1780 ;; particular, because compile-time macro expansion takes away a lot of the
1781 ;; flexibility and effectiveness of the advice mechanism. Macros that were
1782 ;; compile-time expanded before the advice was activated will of course never
1783 ;; exhibit the advised behavior.
1784 ;;
1785 ;; @@ Advising special forms:
1786 ;; ==========================
1787 ;; Now for something that should be even more rare than advising macros:
1788 ;; Advising special forms. Because special forms are irregular in their
1789 ;; argument evaluation behavior (e.g., `setq' evaluates the second but not
1790 ;; the first argument) they have to be advised into macros. A dangerous
1791 ;; consequence of this is that the byte-compiler will not recognize them
1792 ;; as special forms anymore (well, in most cases) and use their expansion
1793 ;; rather than the proper byte-code. Also, because the original definition
1794 ;; of a special form cannot be `funcall'ed, `eval' has to be used instead
1795 ;; which is less efficient.
1796 ;;
1797 ;; MORAL: Do not advise special forms unless you are completely sure about
1798 ;; what you are doing (some of the forward advice behavior is
1799 ;; implemented via advice of the special forms `defun' and `defmacro').
1800 ;; As a safety measure one should always do `ad-deactivate-all' before
1801 ;; one byte-compiles a file to avoid any interference of advised
1802 ;; special forms.
1803 ;;
1804 ;; Apart from the safety concerns advising special forms is not any different
1805 ;; from advising plain functions or subrs.
1806
1807
1808 ;;; Code:
1809
1810 ;; @ Advice implementation:
1811 ;; ========================
1812
1813 ;; @@ Compilation idiosyncrasies:
1814 ;; ==============================
1815
1816 ;; `defadvice' expansion needs quite a few advice functions and variables,
1817 ;; hence, I need to preload the file before it can be compiled. To avoid
1818 ;; interference of bogus compiled files I always preload the source file:
1819 (provide 'advice-preload)
1820 ;; During a normal load this is a noop:
1821 (require 'advice-preload "advice.el")
1822
1823
1824 (defmacro ad-lemacs-p ()
1825 ;;Expands into Non-nil constant if we run Lucid's version of Emacs-19.
1826 ;;Unselected conditional code will be optimized away during compilation.
1827 (string-match "Lucid" emacs-version))
1828
1829
1830 ;; @@ Variable definitions:
1831 ;; ========================
1832
1833 (defconst ad-version "2.13")
1834
1835 ;;;###autoload
1836 (defvar ad-redefinition-action 'warn
1837 "*Defines what to do with redefinitions during Advice de/activation.
1838 Redefinition occurs if a previously activated function that already has an
1839 original definition associated with it gets redefined and then de/activated.
1840 In such a case we can either accept the current definition as the new
1841 original definition, discard the current definition and replace it with the
1842 old original, or keep it and raise an error. The values `accept', `discard',
1843 `error' or `warn' govern what will be done. `warn' is just like `accept' but
1844 it additionally prints a warning message. All other values will be
1845 interpreted as `error'.")
1846
1847 ;;;###autoload
1848 (defvar ad-default-compilation-action 'maybe
1849 "*Defines whether to compile advised definitions during activation.
1850 A value of `always' will result in unconditional compilation, `never' will
1851 always avoid compilation, `maybe' will compile if the byte-compiler is already
1852 loaded, and `like-original' will compile if the original definition of the
1853 advised function is compiled or a built-in function. Every other value will
1854 be interpreted as `maybe'. This variable will only be considered if the
1855 COMPILE argument of `ad-activate' was supplied as nil.")
1856
1857
1858 ;; @@ Some utilities:
1859 ;; ==================
1860
1861 ;; We don't want the local arguments to interfere with anything
1862 ;; referenced in the supplied functions => the cryptic casing:
1863 (defun ad-substitute-tree (sUbTrEe-TeSt fUnCtIoN tReE)
1864 ;;"Substitutes qualifying subTREEs with result of FUNCTION(subTREE).
1865 ;;Only proper subtrees are considered, for example, if TREE is (1 (2 (3)) 4)
1866 ;;then the subtrees will be 1 (2 (3)) 2 (3) 3 4, dotted structures are
1867 ;;allowed too. Once a qualifying subtree has been found its subtrees will
1868 ;;not be considered anymore. (ad-substitute-tree 'atom 'identity tree)
1869 ;;generates a copy of TREE."
1870 (cond ((consp tReE)
1871 (cons (if (funcall sUbTrEe-TeSt (car tReE))
1872 (funcall fUnCtIoN (car tReE))
1873 (if (consp (car tReE))
1874 (ad-substitute-tree sUbTrEe-TeSt fUnCtIoN (car tReE))
1875 (car tReE)))
1876 (ad-substitute-tree sUbTrEe-TeSt fUnCtIoN (cdr tReE))))
1877 ((funcall sUbTrEe-TeSt tReE)
1878 (funcall fUnCtIoN tReE))
1879 (t tReE)))
1880
1881 ;; this is just faster than `ad-substitute-tree':
1882 (defun ad-copy-tree (tree)
1883 ;;"Returns a copy of the list structure of TREE."
1884 (cond ((consp tree)
1885 (cons (ad-copy-tree (car tree))
1886 (ad-copy-tree (cdr tree))))
1887 (t tree)))
1888
1889 (defmacro ad-dolist (varform &rest body)
1890 "A Common-Lisp-style dolist iterator with the following syntax:
1891
1892 (ad-dolist (VAR INIT-FORM [RESULT-FORM])
1893 BODY-FORM...)
1894
1895 which will iterate over the list yielded by INIT-FORM binding VAR to the
1896 current head at every iteration. If RESULT-FORM is supplied its value will
1897 be returned at the end of the iteration, nil otherwise. The iteration can be
1898 exited prematurely with `(ad-do-return [VALUE])'."
1899 (let ((expansion
1900 (` (let ((ad-dO-vAr (, (car (cdr varform))))
1901 (, (car varform)))
1902 (while ad-dO-vAr
1903 (setq (, (car varform)) (car ad-dO-vAr))
1904 (,@ body)
1905 ;;work around a backquote bug:
1906 ;;(` ((,@ '(foo)) (bar))) => (append '(foo) '(((bar)))) wrong
1907 ;;(` ((,@ '(foo)) (, '(bar)))) => (append '(foo) (list '(bar)))
1908 (, '(setq ad-dO-vAr (cdr ad-dO-vAr))))
1909 (, (car (cdr (cdr varform))))))))
1910 ;;ok, this wastes some cons cells but only during compilation:
1911 (if (catch 'contains-return
1912 (ad-substitute-tree
1913 (function (lambda (subtree)
1914 (cond ((eq (car-safe subtree) 'ad-dolist))
1915 ((eq (car-safe subtree) 'ad-do-return)
1916 (throw 'contains-return t)))))
1917 'identity body)
1918 nil)
1919 (` (catch 'ad-dO-eXiT (, expansion)))
1920 expansion)))
1921
1922 (defmacro ad-do-return (value)
1923 (` (throw 'ad-dO-eXiT (, value))))
1924
1925 (if (not (get 'ad-dolist 'lisp-indent-hook))
1926 (put 'ad-dolist 'lisp-indent-hook 1))
1927
1928
1929 ;; @@ Save real definitions of subrs used by Advice:
1930 ;; =================================================
1931 ;; Advice depends on the real, unmodified functionality of various subrs,
1932 ;; we save them here so advised versions will not interfere (eventually,
1933 ;; we will save all subrs used in code generated by Advice):
1934
1935 (defmacro ad-save-real-definition (function)
1936 (let ((saved-function (intern (format "ad-real-%s" function))))
1937 ;; Make sure the compiler is loaded during macro expansion:
1938 (require 'byte-compile "bytecomp")
1939 (` (if (not (fboundp '(, saved-function)))
1940 (progn (fset '(, saved-function) (symbol-function '(, function)))
1941 ;; Copy byte-compiler properties:
1942 (,@ (if (get function 'byte-compile)
1943 (` ((put '(, saved-function) 'byte-compile
1944 '(, (get function 'byte-compile)))))))
1945 (,@ (if (get function 'byte-opcode)
1946 (` ((put '(, saved-function) 'byte-opcode
1947 '(, (get function 'byte-opcode))))))))))))
1948
1949 (defun ad-save-real-definitions ()
1950 ;; Macro expansion will hardcode the values of the various byte-compiler
1951 ;; properties into the compiled version of this function such that the
1952 ;; proper values will be available at runtime without loading the compiler:
1953 (ad-save-real-definition fset)
1954 (ad-save-real-definition documentation))
1955
1956 (ad-save-real-definitions)
1957
1958
1959 ;; @@ Advice info access fns:
1960 ;; ==========================
1961
1962 ;; Advice information for a particular function is stored on the
1963 ;; advice-info property of the function symbol. It is stored as an
1964 ;; alist of the following format:
1965 ;;
1966 ;; ((active . t/nil)
1967 ;; (before adv1 adv2 ...)
1968 ;; (around adv1 adv2 ...)
1969 ;; (after adv1 adv2 ...)
1970 ;; (activation adv1 adv2 ...)
1971 ;; (deactivation adv1 adv2 ...)
1972 ;; (origname . <symbol fbound to origdef>)
1973 ;; (cache . (<advised-definition> . <id>)))
1974
1975 ;; List of currently advised though not necessarily activated functions
1976 ;; (this list is maintained as a completion table):
1977 (defvar ad-advised-functions nil)
1978
1979 (defmacro ad-pushnew-advised-function (function)
1980 ;;"Add FUNCTION to `ad-advised-functions' unless its already there."
1981 (` (if (not (assoc (symbol-name (, function)) ad-advised-functions))
1982 (setq ad-advised-functions
1983 (cons (list (symbol-name (, function)))
1984 ad-advised-functions)))))
1985
1986 (defmacro ad-pop-advised-function (function)
1987 ;;"Remove FUNCTION from `ad-advised-functions'."
1988 (` (setq ad-advised-functions
1989 (delq (assoc (symbol-name (, function)) ad-advised-functions)
1990 ad-advised-functions))))
1991
1992 (defmacro ad-do-advised-functions (varform &rest body)
1993 ;;"`ad-dolist'-style iterator that maps over `ad-advised-functions'.
1994 ;; (ad-do-advised-functions (VAR [RESULT-FORM])
1995 ;; BODY-FORM...)
1996 ;;Also see `ad-dolist'. On each iteration VAR will be bound to the
1997 ;;name of an advised function (a symbol)."
1998 (` (ad-dolist ((, (car varform))
1999 ad-advised-functions
2000 (, (car (cdr varform))))
2001 (setq (, (car varform)) (intern (car (, (car varform)))))
2002 (,@ body))))
2003
2004 (if (not (get 'ad-do-advised-functions 'lisp-indent-hook))
2005 (put 'ad-do-advised-functions 'lisp-indent-hook 1))
2006
2007 (defmacro ad-get-advice-info (function)
2008 (` (get (, function) 'ad-advice-info)))
2009
2010 (defmacro ad-set-advice-info (function advice-info)
2011 (` (put (, function) 'ad-advice-info (, advice-info))))
2012
2013 (defmacro ad-copy-advice-info (function)
2014 (` (ad-copy-tree (get (, function) 'ad-advice-info))))
2015
2016 (defmacro ad-is-advised (function)
2017 ;;"Returns non-nil if FUNCTION has any advice info associated with it.
2018 ;;This does not mean that the advice is also active."
2019 (list 'ad-get-advice-info function))
2020
2021 (defun ad-initialize-advice-info (function)
2022 ;;"Initializes the advice info for FUNCTION.
2023 ;;Assumes that FUNCTION has not yet been advised."
2024 (ad-pushnew-advised-function function)
2025 (ad-set-advice-info function (list (cons 'active nil))))
2026
2027 (defmacro ad-get-advice-info-field (function field)
2028 ;;"Retrieves the value of the advice info FIELD of FUNCTION."
2029 (` (cdr (assq (, field) (ad-get-advice-info (, function))))))
2030
2031 (defun ad-set-advice-info-field (function field value)
2032 ;;"Destructively modifies VALUE of the advice info FIELD of FUNCTION."
2033 (and (ad-is-advised function)
2034 (cond ((assq field (ad-get-advice-info function))
2035 ;; A field with that name is already present:
2036 (rplacd (assq field (ad-get-advice-info function)) value))
2037 (t;; otherwise, create a new field with that name:
2038 (nconc (ad-get-advice-info function)
2039 (list (cons field value)))))))
2040
2041 ;; Don't make this a macro so we can use it as a predicate:
2042 (defun ad-is-active (function)
2043 ;;"non-nil if FUNCTION is advised and activated."
2044 (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'active))
2045
2046
2047 ;; @@ Access fns for single pieces of advice and related predicates:
2048 ;; =================================================================
2049
2050 (defun ad-make-advice (name protect enable definition)
2051 "Constructs single piece of advice to be stored in some advice-info.
2052 NAME should be a non-nil symbol, PROTECT and ENABLE should each be
2053 either t or nil, and DEFINITION should be a list of the form
2054 `(advice lambda ARGLIST [DOCSTRING] [INTERACTIVE-FORM] BODY...)'."
2055 (list name protect enable definition))
2056
2057 ;; ad-find-advice uses the alist structure directly ->
2058 ;; change if this data structure changes!!
2059 (defmacro ad-advice-name (advice)
2060 (list 'car advice))
2061 (defmacro ad-advice-protected (advice)
2062 (list 'nth 1 advice))
2063 (defmacro ad-advice-enabled (advice)
2064 (list 'nth 2 advice))
2065 (defmacro ad-advice-definition (advice)
2066 (list 'nth 3 advice))
2067
2068 (defun ad-advice-set-enabled (advice flag)
2069 (rplaca (cdr (cdr advice)) flag))
2070
2071 (defun ad-class-p (thing)
2072 (memq thing ad-advice-classes))
2073 (defun ad-name-p (thing)
2074 (and thing (symbolp thing)))
2075 (defun ad-position-p (thing)
2076 (or (natnump thing)
2077 (memq thing '(first last))))
2078
2079
2080 ;; @@ Advice access functions:
2081 ;; ===========================
2082
2083 ;; List of defined advice classes:
2084 (defvar ad-advice-classes '(before around after activation deactivation))
2085
2086 (defun ad-has-enabled-advice (function class)
2087 ;;"True if at least one of FUNCTION's advices in CLASS is enabled."
2088 (ad-dolist (advice (ad-get-advice-info-field function class))
2089 (if (ad-advice-enabled advice) (ad-do-return t))))
2090
2091 (defun ad-has-redefining-advice (function)
2092 ;;"True if FUNCTION's advice info defines at least 1 redefining advice.
2093 ;;Redefining advices affect the construction of an advised definition."
2094 (and (ad-is-advised function)
2095 (or (ad-has-enabled-advice function 'before)
2096 (ad-has-enabled-advice function 'around)
2097 (ad-has-enabled-advice function 'after))))
2098
2099 (defun ad-has-any-advice (function)
2100 ;;"True if the advice info of FUNCTION defines at least one advice."
2101 (and (ad-is-advised function)
2102 (ad-dolist (class ad-advice-classes nil)
2103 (if (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)
2104 (ad-do-return t)))))
2105
2106 (defun ad-get-enabled-advices (function class)
2107 ;;"Returns the list of enabled advices of FUNCTION in CLASS."
2108 (let (enabled-advices)
2109 (ad-dolist (advice (ad-get-advice-info-field function class))
2110 (if (ad-advice-enabled advice)
2111 (setq enabled-advices (cons advice enabled-advices))))
2112 (reverse enabled-advices)))
2113
2114
2115 ;; @@ Dealing with automatic advice activation via `fset/defalias':
2116 ;; ================================================================
2117
2118 ;; Since Emacs 19.26 the built-in versions of `fset' and `defalias'
2119 ;; take care of automatic advice activation, hence, we don't have to
2120 ;; hack it anymore by advising `fset/defun/defmacro/byte-code/etc'.
2121
2122 ;; The functionality of the new `fset' is as follows:
2123 ;;
2124 ;; fset(sym,newdef)
2125 ;; assign NEWDEF to SYM
2126 ;; if (get SYM 'ad-advice-info)
2127 ;; ad-activate(SYM, nil)
2128 ;; return (symbol-function SYM)
2129 ;;
2130 ;; Whether advised definitions created by automatic activations will be
2131 ;; compiled depends on the value of `ad-default-compilation-action'.
2132
2133 ;; Since calling `ad-activate' in the built-in definition of `fset' can
2134 ;; create major disasters we have to be a bit careful. One precaution is
2135 ;; to provide a dummy definition for `ad-activate' which can be used to
2136 ;; turn off automatic advice activation (e.g., when `ad-stop-advice' or
2137 ;; `ad-recover-normality' are called). Another is to avoid recursive calls
2138 ;; to `ad-activate-on' by using `ad-with-auto-activation-disabled' where
2139 ;; appropriate, especially in a safe version of `fset'.
2140
2141 ;; For now define `ad-activate' to the dummy definition:
2142 (defun ad-activate (function &optional compile)
2143 "Automatic advice activation is disabled. `ad-start-advice' enables it."
2144 nil)
2145
2146 ;; This is just a copy of the above:
2147 (defun ad-activate-off (function &optional compile)
2148 "Automatic advice activation is disabled. `ad-start-advice' enables it."
2149 nil)
2150
2151 ;; This will be t for top-level calls to `ad-activate-on':
2152 (defvar ad-activate-on-top-level t)
2153
2154 (defmacro ad-with-auto-activation-disabled (&rest body)
2155 (` (let ((ad-activate-on-top-level nil))
2156 (,@ body))))
2157
2158 (defun ad-safe-fset (symbol definition)
2159 ;; A safe `fset' which will never call `ad-activate' recursively.
2160 (ad-with-auto-activation-disabled
2161 (ad-real-fset symbol definition)))
2162
2163
2164 ;; @@ Access functions for original definitions:
2165 ;; ============================================
2166 ;; The advice-info of an advised function contains its `origname' which is
2167 ;; a symbol that is fbound to the original definition available at the first
2168 ;; proper activation of the function after a legal re/definition. If the
2169 ;; original was defined via fcell indirection then `origname' will be defined
2170 ;; just so. Hence, to get hold of the actual original definition of a function
2171 ;; we need to use `ad-real-orig-definition'.
2172
2173 (defun ad-make-origname (function)
2174 ;;"Makes name to be used to call the original FUNCTION."
2175 (intern (format "ad-Orig-%s" function)))
2176
2177 (defmacro ad-get-orig-definition (function)
2178 (` (let ((origname (ad-get-advice-info-field (, function) 'origname)))
2179 (if (fboundp origname)
2180 (symbol-function origname)))))
2181
2182 (defmacro ad-set-orig-definition (function definition)
2183 (` (ad-safe-fset
2184 (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'origname) (, definition))))
2185
2186 (defmacro ad-clear-orig-definition (function)
2187 (` (fmakunbound (ad-get-advice-info-field (, function) 'origname))))
2188
2189
2190 ;; @@ Interactive input functions:
2191 ;; ===============================
2192
2193 (defun ad-read-advised-function (&optional prompt predicate default)
2194 ;;"Reads name of advised function with completion from the minibuffer.
2195 ;;An optional PROMPT will be used to prompt for the function. PREDICATE
2196 ;;plays the same role as for `try-completion' (which see). DEFAULT will
2197 ;;be returned on empty input (defaults to the first advised function for
2198 ;;which PREDICATE returns non-nil)."
2199 (if (null ad-advised-functions)
2200 (error "ad-read-advised-function: There are no advised functions"))
2201 (setq default
2202 (or default
2203 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
2204 (if (or (null predicate)
2205 (funcall predicate function))
2206 (ad-do-return function)))
2207 (error "ad-read-advised-function: %s"
2208 "There are no qualifying advised functions")))
2209 (let* ((ad-pReDiCaTe predicate)
2210 (function
2211 (completing-read
2212 (format "%s(default %s) " (or prompt "Function: ") default)
2213 ad-advised-functions
2214 (if predicate
2215 (function
2216 (lambda (function)
2217 ;; Oops, no closures - the joys of dynamic scoping:
2218 ;; `predicate' clashed with the `predicate' argument
2219 ;; of Lemacs' `completing-read'.....
2220 (funcall ad-pReDiCaTe (intern (car function))))))
2221 t)))
2222 (if (equal function "")
2223 (if (ad-is-advised default)
2224 default
2225 (error "ad-read-advised-function: `%s' is not advised" default))
2226 (intern function))))
2227
2228 (defvar ad-advice-class-completion-table
2229 (mapcar '(lambda (class) (list (symbol-name class)))
2230 ad-advice-classes))
2231
2232 (defun ad-read-advice-class (function &optional prompt default)
2233 ;;"Reads a legal advice class with completion from the minibuffer.
2234 ;;An optional PROMPT will be used to prompt for the class. DEFAULT will
2235 ;;be returned on empty input (defaults to the first non-empty advice
2236 ;;class of FUNCTION)."
2237 (setq default
2238 (or default
2239 (ad-dolist (class ad-advice-classes)
2240 (if (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)
2241 (ad-do-return class)))
2242 (error "ad-read-advice-class: `%s' has no advices" function)))
2243 (let ((class (completing-read
2244 (format "%s(default %s) " (or prompt "Class: ") default)
2245 ad-advice-class-completion-table nil t)))
2246 (if (equal class "")
2247 default
2248 (intern class))))
2249
2250 (defun ad-read-advice-name (function class &optional prompt)
2251 ;;"Reads name of existing advice of CLASS for FUNCTION with completion.
2252 ;;An optional PROMPT is used to prompt for the name."
2253 (let* ((name-completion-table
2254 (mapcar (function (lambda (advice)
2255 (list (symbol-name (ad-advice-name advice)))))
2256 (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)))
2257 (default
2258 (if (null name-completion-table)
2259 (error "ad-read-advice-name: `%s' has no %s advice"
2260 function class)
2261 (car (car name-completion-table))))
2262 (prompt (format "%s(default %s) " (or prompt "Name: ") default))
2263 (name (completing-read prompt name-completion-table nil t)))
2264 (if (equal name "")
2265 (intern default)
2266 (intern name))))
2267
2268 (defun ad-read-advice-specification (&optional prompt)
2269 ;;"Reads a complete function/class/name specification from minibuffer.
2270 ;;The list of read symbols will be returned. The optional PROMPT will
2271 ;;be used to prompt for the function."
2272 (let* ((function (ad-read-advised-function prompt))
2273 (class (ad-read-advice-class function))
2274 (name (ad-read-advice-name function class)))
2275 (list function class name)))
2276
2277 ;; Use previous regexp as a default:
2278 (defvar ad-last-regexp "")
2279
2280 (defun ad-read-regexp (&optional prompt)
2281 ;;"Reads a regular expression from the minibuffer."
2282 (let ((regexp (read-from-minibuffer
2283 (concat (or prompt "Regular expression: ")
2284 (if (equal ad-last-regexp "") ""
2285 (format "(default \"%s\") " ad-last-regexp))))))
2286 (setq ad-last-regexp
2287 (if (equal regexp "") ad-last-regexp regexp))))
2288
2289
2290 ;; @@ Finding, enabling, adding and removing pieces of advice:
2291 ;; ===========================================================
2292
2293 (defmacro ad-find-advice (function class name)
2294 ;;"Finds the first advice of FUNCTION in CLASS with NAME."
2295 (` (assq (, name) (ad-get-advice-info-field (, function) (, class)))))
2296
2297 (defun ad-advice-position (function class name)
2298 ;;"Returns position of first advice of FUNCTION in CLASS with NAME."
2299 (let* ((found-advice (ad-find-advice function class name))
2300 (advices (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)))
2301 (if found-advice
2302 (- (length advices) (length (memq found-advice advices))))))
2303
2304 (defun ad-find-some-advice (function class name)
2305 "Finds the first of FUNCTION's advices in CLASS matching NAME.
2306 NAME can be a symbol or a regular expression matching part of an advice name.
2307 If CLASS is `any' all legal advice classes will be checked."
2308 (if (ad-is-advised function)
2309 (let (found-advice)
2310 (ad-dolist (advice-class ad-advice-classes)
2311 (if (or (eq class 'any) (eq advice-class class))
2312 (setq found-advice
2313 (ad-dolist (advice (ad-get-advice-info-field
2314 function advice-class))
2315 (if (or (and (stringp name)
2316 (string-match
2317 name (symbol-name
2318 (ad-advice-name advice))))
2319 (eq name (ad-advice-name advice)))
2320 (ad-do-return advice)))))
2321 (if found-advice (ad-do-return found-advice))))))
2322
2323 (defun ad-enable-advice-internal (function class name flag)
2324 ;;"Sets enable FLAG of FUNCTION's advices in CLASS matching NAME.
2325 ;;If NAME is a string rather than a symbol then it's interpreted as a regular
2326 ;;expression and all advices whose name contain a match for it will be
2327 ;;affected. If CLASS is `any' advices in all legal advice classes will be
2328 ;;considered. The number of changed advices will be returned (or nil if
2329 ;;FUNCTION was not advised)."
2330 (if (ad-is-advised function)
2331 (let ((matched-advices 0))
2332 (ad-dolist (advice-class ad-advice-classes)
2333 (if (or (eq class 'any) (eq advice-class class))
2334 (ad-dolist (advice (ad-get-advice-info-field
2335 function advice-class))
2336 (cond ((or (and (stringp name)
2337 (string-match
2338 name (symbol-name (ad-advice-name advice))))
2339 (eq name (ad-advice-name advice)))
2340 (setq matched-advices (1+ matched-advices))
2341 (ad-advice-set-enabled advice flag))))))
2342 matched-advices)))
2343
2344 (defun ad-enable-advice (function class name)
2345 "Enables the advice of FUNCTION with CLASS and NAME."
2346 (interactive (ad-read-advice-specification "Enable advice of: "))
2347 (if (ad-is-advised function)
2348 (if (eq (ad-enable-advice-internal function class name t) 0)
2349 (error "ad-enable-advice: `%s' has no %s advice matching `%s'"
2350 function class name))
2351 (error "ad-enable-advice: `%s' is not advised" function)))
2352
2353 (defun ad-disable-advice (function class name)
2354 "Disables the advice of FUNCTION with CLASS and NAME."
2355 (interactive (ad-read-advice-specification "Disable advice of: "))
2356 (if (ad-is-advised function)
2357 (if (eq (ad-enable-advice-internal function class name nil) 0)
2358 (error "ad-disable-advice: `%s' has no %s advice matching `%s'"
2359 function class name))
2360 (error "ad-disable-advice: `%s' is not advised" function)))
2361
2362 (defun ad-enable-regexp-internal (regexp class flag)
2363 ;;"Sets enable FLAGs of all CLASS advices whose name contains a REGEXP match.
2364 ;;If CLASS is `any' all legal advice classes are considered. The number of
2365 ;;affected advices will be returned."
2366 (let ((matched-advices 0))
2367 (ad-do-advised-functions (advised-function)
2368 (setq matched-advices
2369 (+ matched-advices
2370 (or (ad-enable-advice-internal
2371 advised-function class regexp flag)
2372 0))))
2373 matched-advices))
2374
2375 (defun ad-enable-regexp (regexp)
2376 "Enables all advices with names that contain a match for REGEXP.
2377 All currently advised functions will be considered."
2378 (interactive
2379 (list (ad-read-regexp "Enable advices via regexp: ")))
2380 (let ((matched-advices (ad-enable-regexp-internal regexp 'any t)))
2381 (if (interactive-p)
2382 (message "%d matching advices enabled" matched-advices))
2383 matched-advices))
2384
2385 (defun ad-disable-regexp (regexp)
2386 "Disables all advices with names that contain a match for REGEXP.
2387 All currently advised functions will be considered."
2388 (interactive
2389 (list (ad-read-regexp "Disable advices via regexp: ")))
2390 (let ((matched-advices (ad-enable-regexp-internal regexp 'any nil)))
2391 (if (interactive-p)
2392 (message "%d matching advices disabled" matched-advices))
2393 matched-advices))
2394
2395 (defun ad-remove-advice (function class name)
2396 "Removes FUNCTION's advice with NAME from its advices in CLASS.
2397 If such an advice was found it will be removed from the list of advices
2398 in that CLASS."
2399 (interactive (ad-read-advice-specification "Remove advice of: "))
2400 (if (ad-is-advised function)
2401 (let* ((advice-to-remove (ad-find-advice function class name)))
2402 (if advice-to-remove
2403 (ad-set-advice-info-field
2404 function class
2405 (delq advice-to-remove (ad-get-advice-info-field function class)))
2406 (error "ad-remove-advice: `%s' has no %s advice `%s'"
2407 function class name)))
2408 (error "ad-remove-advice: `%s' is not advised" function)))
2409
2410 ;;;###autoload
2411 (defun ad-add-advice (function advice class position)
2412 "Adds a piece of ADVICE to FUNCTION's list of advices in CLASS.
2413 If FUNCTION already has one or more pieces of advice of the specified
2414 CLASS then POSITION determines where the new piece will go. The value
2415 of POSITION can either be `first', `last' or a number where 0 corresponds
2416 to `first'. Numbers outside the range will be mapped to the closest
2417 extreme position. If there was already a piece of ADVICE with the same
2418 name, then the position argument will be ignored and the old advice
2419 will be overwritten with the new one.
2420 If the FUNCTION was not advised already, then its advice info will be
2421 initialized. Redefining a piece of advice whose name is part of the cache-id
2422 will clear the cache."
2423 (cond ((not (ad-is-advised function))
2424 (ad-initialize-advice-info function)
2425 (ad-set-advice-info-field
2426 function 'origname (ad-make-origname function))))
2427 (let* ((previous-position
2428 (ad-advice-position function class (ad-advice-name advice)))
2429 (advices (ad-get-advice-info-field function class))
2430 ;; Determine a numerical position for the new advice:
2431 (position (cond (previous-position)
2432 ((eq position 'first) 0)
2433 ((eq position 'last) (length advices))
2434 ((numberp position)
2435 (max 0 (min position (length advices))))
2436 (t 0))))
2437 ;; Check whether we have to clear the cache:
2438 (if (memq (ad-advice-name advice) (ad-get-cache-class-id function class))
2439 (ad-clear-cache function))
2440 (if previous-position
2441 (setcar (nthcdr position advices) advice)
2442 (if (= position 0)
2443 (ad-set-advice-info-field function class (cons advice advices))
2444 (setcdr (nthcdr (1- position) advices)
2445 (cons advice (nthcdr position advices)))))))
2446
2447
2448 ;; @@ Accessing and manipulating function definitions:
2449 ;; ===================================================
2450
2451 (defmacro ad-macrofy (definition)
2452 ;;"Takes a lambda function DEFINITION and makes a macro out of it."
2453 (` (cons 'macro (, definition))))
2454
2455 (defmacro ad-lambdafy (definition)
2456 ;;"Takes a macro function DEFINITION and makes a lambda out of it."
2457 (` (cdr (, definition))))
2458
2459 ;; There is no way to determine whether some subr is a special form or not,
2460 ;; hence we need this list (which is probably out of date):
2461 (defvar ad-special-forms
2462 (mapcar 'symbol-function
2463 '(and catch cond condition-case defconst defmacro
2464 defun defvar function if interactive let let*
2465 or prog1 prog2 progn quote save-excursion
2466 save-restriction save-window-excursion setq
2467 setq-default unwind-protect while
2468 with-output-to-temp-buffer)))
2469
2470 (defmacro ad-special-form-p (definition)
2471 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION is a special form."
2472 (list 'memq definition 'ad-special-forms))
2473
2474 (defmacro ad-interactive-p (definition)
2475 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION can be called interactively."
2476 (list 'commandp definition))
2477
2478 (defmacro ad-subr-p (definition)
2479 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION is a subr."
2480 (list 'subrp definition))
2481
2482 (defmacro ad-macro-p (definition)
2483 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION is a macro."
2484 (` (eq (car-safe (, definition)) 'macro)))
2485
2486 (defmacro ad-lambda-p (definition)
2487 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION is a lambda expression."
2488 (` (eq (car-safe (, definition)) 'lambda)))
2489
2490 ;; see ad-make-advice for the format of advice definitions:
2491 (defmacro ad-advice-p (definition)
2492 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION is a piece of advice."
2493 (` (eq (car-safe (, definition)) 'advice)))
2494
2495 ;; Emacs/Lemacs cross-compatibility
2496 ;; (compiled-function-p is an obsolete function in Emacs):
2497 (if (and (not (fboundp 'byte-code-function-p))
2498 (fboundp 'compiled-function-p))
2499 (ad-safe-fset 'byte-code-function-p 'compiled-function-p))
2500
2501 (defmacro ad-compiled-p (definition)
2502 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION is a compiled byte-code object."
2503 (` (or (byte-code-function-p (, definition))
2504 (and (ad-macro-p (, definition))
2505 (byte-code-function-p (ad-lambdafy (, definition)))))))
2506
2507 (defmacro ad-compiled-code (compiled-definition)
2508 ;;"Returns the byte-code object of a COMPILED-DEFINITION."
2509 (` (if (ad-macro-p (, compiled-definition))
2510 (ad-lambdafy (, compiled-definition))
2511 (, compiled-definition))))
2512
2513 (defun ad-lambda-expression (definition)
2514 ;;"Returns the lambda expression of a function/macro/advice DEFINITION."
2515 (cond ((ad-lambda-p definition)
2516 definition)
2517 ((ad-macro-p definition)
2518 (ad-lambdafy definition))
2519 ((ad-advice-p definition)
2520 (cdr definition))
2521 (t nil)))
2522
2523 (defun ad-arglist (definition &optional name)
2524 ;;"Returns the argument list of DEFINITION.
2525 ;;If DEFINITION could be from a subr then its NAME should be
2526 ;;supplied to make subr arglist lookup more efficient."
2527 (cond ((ad-compiled-p definition)
2528 (aref (ad-compiled-code definition) 0))
2529 ((consp definition)
2530 (car (cdr (ad-lambda-expression definition))))
2531 ((ad-subr-p definition)
2532 (if name
2533 (ad-subr-arglist name)
2534 ;; otherwise get it from its printed representation:
2535 (setq name (format "%s" definition))
2536 (string-match "^#<subr \\([^>]+\\)>$" name)
2537 (ad-subr-arglist
2538 (intern (substring name (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))))))
2539
2540 ;; Store subr-args as `((arg1 arg2 ...))' so I can distinguish
2541 ;; a defined empty arglist `(nil)' from an undefined arglist:
2542 (defmacro ad-define-subr-args (subr arglist)
2543 (` (put (, subr) 'ad-subr-arglist (list (, arglist)))))
2544 (defmacro ad-undefine-subr-args (subr)
2545 (` (put (, subr) 'ad-subr-arglist nil)))
2546 (defmacro ad-subr-args-defined-p (subr)
2547 (` (get (, subr) 'ad-subr-arglist)))
2548 (defmacro ad-get-subr-args (subr)
2549 (` (car (get (, subr) 'ad-subr-arglist))))
2550
2551 (defun ad-subr-arglist (subr-name)
2552 ;;"Retrieve arglist of the subr with SUBR-NAME.
2553 ;;Either use the one stored under the `ad-subr-arglist' property,
2554 ;;or try to retrieve it from the docstring and cache it under
2555 ;;that property, or otherwise use `(&rest ad-subr-args)'."
2556 (cond ((ad-subr-args-defined-p subr-name)
2557 (ad-get-subr-args subr-name))
2558 ;; says jwz: Should use this for Lemacs 19.8 and above:
2559 ;;((fboundp 'subr-min-args)
2560 ;; ...)
2561 ;; says hans: I guess what Jamie means is that I should use the values
2562 ;; of `subr-min-args' and `subr-max-args' to construct the subr arglist
2563 ;; without having to look it up via parsing the docstring, e.g.,
2564 ;; values 1 and 2 would suggest `(arg1 &optional arg2)' as an
2565 ;; argument list. However, that won't work because there is no
2566 ;; way to distinguish a subr with args `(a &optional b &rest c)' from
2567 ;; one with args `(a &rest c)' using that mechanism. Also, the argument
2568 ;; names from the docstring are more meaningful. Hence, I'll stick with
2569 ;; the old way of doing things.
2570 (t (let ((doc (ad-real-documentation subr-name t)))
2571 (cond ((and doc
2572 (string-match
2573 "[\n\t ]*\narguments: ?\\((.*)\\)\n?\\'" doc))
2574 (ad-define-subr-args
2575 subr-name
2576 (car (read-from-string
2577 doc (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))
2578 (ad-get-subr-args subr-name))
2579 (t '(&rest ad-subr-args)))))))
2580
2581 (defun ad-docstring (definition)
2582 ;;"Returns the unexpanded docstring of DEFINITION."
2583 (let ((docstring
2584 (if (ad-compiled-p definition)
2585 (ad-real-documentation definition t)
2586 (car (cdr (cdr (ad-lambda-expression definition)))))))
2587 (if (or (stringp docstring)
2588 (natnump docstring))
2589 docstring)))
2590
2591 (defun ad-interactive-form (definition)
2592 ;;"Returns the interactive form of DEFINITION."
2593 (cond ((ad-compiled-p definition)
2594 (and (commandp definition)
2595 (list 'interactive (aref (ad-compiled-code definition) 5))))
2596 ((or (ad-advice-p definition)
2597 (ad-lambda-p definition))
2598 (commandp (ad-lambda-expression definition)))))
2599
2600 (defun ad-body-forms (definition)
2601 ;;"Returns the list of body forms of DEFINITION."
2602 (cond ((ad-compiled-p definition)
2603 nil)
2604 ((consp definition)
2605 (nthcdr (+ (if (ad-docstring definition) 1 0)
2606 (if (ad-interactive-form definition) 1 0))
2607 (cdr (cdr (ad-lambda-expression definition)))))))
2608
2609 ;; Matches the docstring of an advised definition.
2610 ;; The first group of the regexp matches the function name:
2611 (defvar ad-advised-definition-docstring-regexp "^\\$ad-doc: \\(.+\\)\\$$")
2612
2613 (defun ad-make-advised-definition-docstring (function)
2614 ;; Makes an identifying docstring for the advised definition of FUNCTION.
2615 ;; Put function name into the documentation string so we can infer
2616 ;; the name of the advised function from the docstring. This is needed
2617 ;; to generate a proper advised docstring even if we are just given a
2618 ;; definition (also see the defadvice for `documentation'):
2619 (format "$ad-doc: %s$" (prin1-to-string function)))
2620
2621 (defun ad-advised-definition-p (definition)
2622 ;;"non-nil if DEFINITION was generated from advice information."
2623 (if (or (ad-lambda-p definition)
2624 (ad-macro-p definition)
2625 (ad-compiled-p definition))
2626 (let ((docstring (ad-docstring definition)))
2627 (and (stringp docstring)
2628 (string-match
2629 ad-advised-definition-docstring-regexp docstring)))))
2630
2631 (defun ad-definition-type (definition)
2632 ;;"Returns symbol that describes the type of DEFINITION."
2633 (if (ad-macro-p definition)
2634 'macro
2635 (if (ad-subr-p definition)
2636 (if (ad-special-form-p definition)
2637 'special-form
2638 'subr)
2639 (if (or (ad-lambda-p definition)
2640 (ad-compiled-p definition))
2641 'function
2642 (if (ad-advice-p definition)
2643 'advice)))))
2644
2645 (defun ad-has-proper-definition (function)
2646 ;;"True if FUNCTION is a symbol with a proper definition.
2647 ;;For that it has to be fbound with a non-autoload definition."
2648 (and (symbolp function)
2649 (fboundp function)
2650 (not (eq (car-safe (symbol-function function)) 'autoload))))
2651
2652 ;; The following two are necessary for the sake of packages such as
2653 ;; ange-ftp which redefine functions via fcell indirection:
2654 (defun ad-real-definition (function)
2655 ;;"Finds FUNCTION's definition at the end of function cell indirection."
2656 (if (ad-has-proper-definition function)
2657 (let ((definition (symbol-function function)))
2658 (if (symbolp definition)
2659 (ad-real-definition definition)
2660 definition))))
2661
2662 (defun ad-real-orig-definition (function)
2663 ;;"Finds FUNCTION's real original definition starting from its `origname'."
2664 (if (ad-is-advised function)
2665 (ad-real-definition (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'origname))))
2666
2667 (defun ad-is-compilable (function)
2668 ;;"True if FUNCTION has an interpreted definition that can be compiled."
2669 (and (ad-has-proper-definition function)
2670 (or (ad-lambda-p (symbol-function function))
2671 (ad-macro-p (symbol-function function)))
2672 (not (ad-compiled-p (symbol-function function)))))
2673
2674 (defun ad-compile-function (function)
2675 "Byte-compiles FUNCTION (or macro) if it is not yet compiled."
2676 (interactive "aByte-compile function: ")
2677 (if (ad-is-compilable function)
2678 ;; Need to turn off auto-activation
2679 ;; because `byte-compile' uses `fset':
2680 (ad-with-auto-activation-disabled
2681 (byte-compile function))))
2682
2683
2684 ;; @@ Constructing advised definitions:
2685 ;; ====================================
2686 ;;
2687 ;; Main design decisions about the form of advised definitions:
2688 ;;
2689 ;; A) How will original definitions be called?
2690 ;; B) What will argument lists of advised functions look like?
2691 ;;
2692 ;; Ad A)
2693 ;; I chose to use function indirection for all four types of original
2694 ;; definitions (functions, macros, subrs and special forms), i.e., create
2695 ;; a unique symbol `ad-Orig-<name>' which is fbound to the original
2696 ;; definition and call it according to type and arguments. Functions and
2697 ;; subrs that don't have any &rest arguments can be called directly in a
2698 ;; `(ad-Orig-<name> ....)' form. If they have a &rest argument we have to
2699 ;; use `apply'. Macros will be called with
2700 ;; `(macroexpand '(ad-Orig-<name> ....))', and special forms also need a
2701 ;; form like that with `eval' instead of `macroexpand'.
2702 ;;
2703 ;; Ad B)
2704 ;; Use original arguments where possible and `(&rest ad-subr-args)'
2705 ;; otherwise, even though this seems to be more complicated and less
2706 ;; uniform than a general `(&rest args)' approach. My reason to still
2707 ;; do it that way is that in most cases my approach leads to the more
2708 ;; efficient form for the advised function, and portability (e.g., to
2709 ;; make the same advice work regardless of whether something is a
2710 ;; function or a subr) can still be achieved with argument access macros.
2711
2712
2713 (defun ad-prognify (forms)
2714 (cond ((<= (length forms) 1)
2715 (car forms))
2716 (t (cons 'progn forms))))
2717
2718 ;; @@@ Accessing argument lists:
2719 ;; =============================
2720
2721 (defun ad-parse-arglist (arglist)
2722 ;;"Parses ARGLIST into its required, optional and rest parameters.
2723 ;;A three-element list is returned, where the 1st element is the list of
2724 ;;required arguments, the 2nd is the list of optional arguments, and the 3rd
2725 ;;is the name of an optional rest parameter (or nil)."
2726 (let* (required optional rest)
2727 (setq rest (car (cdr (memq '&rest arglist))))
2728 (if rest (setq arglist (reverse (cdr (memq '&rest (reverse arglist))))))
2729 (setq optional (cdr (memq '&optional arglist)))
2730 (if optional
2731 (setq required (reverse (cdr (memq '&optional (reverse arglist)))))
2732 (setq required arglist))
2733 (list required optional rest)))
2734
2735 (defun ad-retrieve-args-form (arglist)
2736 ;;"Generates a form which evaluates into names/values/types of ARGLIST.
2737 ;;When the form gets evaluated within a function with that argument list
2738 ;;it will result in a list with one entry for each argument, where the
2739 ;;first element of each entry is the name of the argument, the second
2740 ;;element is its actual current value, and the third element is either
2741 ;;`required', `optional' or `rest' depending on the type of the argument."
2742 (let* ((parsed-arglist (ad-parse-arglist arglist))
2743 (rest (nth 2 parsed-arglist)))
2744 (` (list
2745 (,@ (mapcar (function
2746 (lambda (req)
2747 (` (list '(, req) (, req) 'required))))
2748 (nth 0 parsed-arglist)))
2749 (,@ (mapcar (function
2750 (lambda (opt)
2751 (` (list '(, opt) (, opt) 'optional))))
2752 (nth 1 parsed-arglist)))
2753 (,@ (if rest (list (` (list '(, rest) (, rest) 'rest)))))
2754 ))))
2755
2756 (defun ad-arg-binding-field (binding field)
2757 (cond ((eq field 'name) (car binding))
2758 ((eq field 'value) (car (cdr binding)))
2759 ((eq field 'type) (car (cdr (cdr binding))))))
2760
2761 (defun ad-list-access (position list)
2762 (cond ((= position 0) list)
2763 ((= position 1) (list 'cdr list))
2764 (t (list 'nthcdr position list))))
2765
2766 (defun ad-element-access (position list)
2767 (cond ((= position 0) (list 'car list))
2768 ((= position 1) (` (car (cdr (, list)))))
2769 (t (list 'nth position list))))
2770
2771 (defun ad-access-argument (arglist index)
2772 ;;"Tells how to access ARGLIST's actual argument at position INDEX.
2773 ;;For a required/optional arg it simply returns it, if a rest argument has
2774 ;;to be accessed, it returns a list with the index and name."
2775 (let* ((parsed-arglist (ad-parse-arglist arglist))
2776 (reqopt-args (append (nth 0 parsed-arglist)
2777 (nth 1 parsed-arglist)))
2778 (rest-arg (nth 2 parsed-arglist)))
2779 (cond ((< index (length reqopt-args))
2780 (nth index reqopt-args))
2781 (rest-arg
2782 (list (- index (length reqopt-args)) rest-arg)))))
2783
2784 (defun ad-get-argument (arglist index)
2785 ;;"Returns form to access ARGLIST's actual argument at position INDEX."
2786 (let ((argument-access (ad-access-argument arglist index)))
2787 (cond ((consp argument-access)
2788 (ad-element-access
2789 (car argument-access) (car (cdr argument-access))))
2790 (argument-access))))
2791
2792 (defun ad-set-argument (arglist index value-form)
2793 ;;"Returns form to set ARGLIST's actual arg at INDEX to VALUE-FORM."
2794 (let ((argument-access (ad-access-argument arglist index)))
2795 (cond ((consp argument-access)
2796 ;; should this check whether there actually is something to set?
2797 (` (setcar (, (ad-list-access
2798 (car argument-access) (car (cdr argument-access))))
2799 (, value-form))))
2800 (argument-access
2801 (` (setq (, argument-access) (, value-form))))
2802 (t (error "ad-set-argument: No argument at position %d of `%s'"
2803 index arglist)))))
2804
2805 (defun ad-get-arguments (arglist index)
2806 ;;"Returns form to access all actual arguments starting at position INDEX."
2807 (let* ((parsed-arglist (ad-parse-arglist arglist))
2808 (reqopt-args (append (nth 0 parsed-arglist)
2809 (nth 1 parsed-arglist)))
2810 (rest-arg (nth 2 parsed-arglist))
2811 args-form)
2812 (if (< index (length reqopt-args))
2813 (setq args-form (` (list (,@ (nthcdr index reqopt-args))))))
2814 (if rest-arg
2815 (if args-form
2816 (setq args-form (` (nconc (, args-form) (, rest-arg))))
2817 (setq args-form (ad-list-access (- index (length reqopt-args))
2818 rest-arg))))
2819 args-form))
2820
2821 (defun ad-set-arguments (arglist index values-form)
2822 ;;"Makes form to assign elements of VALUES-FORM as actual ARGLIST args.
2823 ;;The assignment starts at position INDEX."
2824 (let ((values-index 0)
2825 argument-access set-forms)
2826 (while (setq argument-access (ad-access-argument arglist index))
2827 (if (symbolp argument-access)
2828 (setq set-forms
2829 (cons (ad-set-argument
2830 arglist index
2831 (ad-element-access values-index 'ad-vAlUeS))
2832 set-forms))
2833 (setq set-forms
2834 (cons (if (= (car argument-access) 0)
2835 (list 'setq
2836 (car (cdr argument-access))
2837 (ad-list-access values-index 'ad-vAlUeS))
2838 (list 'setcdr
2839 (ad-list-access (1- (car argument-access))
2840 (car (cdr argument-access)))
2841 (ad-list-access values-index 'ad-vAlUeS)))
2842 set-forms))
2843 ;; terminate loop
2844 (setq arglist nil))
2845 (setq index (1+ index))
2846 (setq values-index (1+ values-index)))
2847 (if (null set-forms)
2848 (error "ad-set-arguments: No argument at position %d of `%s'"
2849 index arglist)
2850 (if (= (length set-forms) 1)
2851 ;; For exactly one set-form we can use values-form directly,...
2852 (ad-substitute-tree
2853 (function (lambda (form) (eq form 'ad-vAlUeS)))
2854 (function (lambda (form) values-form))
2855 (car set-forms))
2856 ;; ...if we have more we have to bind it to a variable:
2857 (` (let ((ad-vAlUeS (, values-form)))
2858 (,@ (reverse set-forms))
2859 ;; work around the old backquote bug:
2860 (, 'ad-vAlUeS)))))))
2861
2862 (defun ad-insert-argument-access-forms (definition arglist)
2863 ;;"Expands arg-access text macros in DEFINITION according to ARGLIST."
2864 (ad-substitute-tree
2865 (function
2866 (lambda (form)
2867 (or (eq form 'ad-arg-bindings)
2868 (and (memq (car-safe form)
2869 '(ad-get-arg ad-get-args ad-set-arg ad-set-args))
2870 (integerp (car-safe (cdr form)))))))
2871 (function
2872 (lambda (form)
2873 (if (eq form 'ad-arg-bindings)
2874 (ad-retrieve-args-form arglist)
2875 (let ((accessor (car form))
2876 (index (car (cdr form)))
2877 (val (car (cdr (ad-insert-argument-access-forms
2878 (cdr form) arglist)))))
2879 (cond ((eq accessor 'ad-get-arg)
2880 (ad-get-argument arglist index))
2881 ((eq accessor 'ad-set-arg)
2882 (ad-set-argument arglist index val))
2883 ((eq accessor 'ad-get-args)
2884 (ad-get-arguments arglist index))
2885 ((eq accessor 'ad-set-args)
2886 (ad-set-arguments arglist index val)))))))
2887 definition))
2888
2889 ;; @@@ Mapping argument lists:
2890 ;; ===========================
2891 ;; Here is the problem:
2892 ;; Suppose function foo was called with (foo 1 2 3 4 5), and foo has the
2893 ;; argument list (x y &rest z), and we want to call the function bar which
2894 ;; has argument list (a &rest b) with a combination of x, y and z so that
2895 ;; the effect is just as if we had called (bar 1 2 3 4 5) directly.
2896 ;; The mapping should work for any two argument lists.
2897
2898 (defun ad-map-arglists (source-arglist target-arglist)
2899 "Makes `funcall/apply' form to map SOURCE-ARGLIST to TARGET-ARGLIST.
2900 The arguments supplied to TARGET-ARGLIST will be taken from SOURCE-ARGLIST just
2901 as if they had been supplied to a function with TARGET-ARGLIST directly.
2902 Excess source arguments will be neglected, missing source arguments will be
2903 supplied as nil. Returns a `funcall' or `apply' form with the second element
2904 being `function' which has to be replaced by an actual function argument.
2905 Example: `(ad-map-arglists '(a &rest args) '(w x y z))' will return
2906 `(funcall function a (car args) (car (cdr args)) (nth 2 args))'."
2907 (let* ((parsed-source-arglist (ad-parse-arglist source-arglist))
2908 (source-reqopt-args (append (nth 0 parsed-source-arglist)
2909 (nth 1 parsed-source-arglist)))
2910 (source-rest-arg (nth 2 parsed-source-arglist))
2911 (parsed-target-arglist (ad-parse-arglist target-arglist))
2912 (target-reqopt-args (append (nth 0 parsed-target-arglist)
2913 (nth 1 parsed-target-arglist)))
2914 (target-rest-arg (nth 2 parsed-target-arglist))
2915 (need-apply (and source-rest-arg target-rest-arg))
2916 (target-arg-index -1))
2917 ;; This produces ``error-proof'' target function calls with the exception
2918 ;; of a case like (&rest a) mapped onto (x &rest y) where the actual args
2919 ;; supplied to A might not be enough to supply the required target arg X
2920 (append (list (if need-apply 'apply 'funcall) 'function)
2921 (cond (need-apply
2922 ;; `apply' can take care of that directly:
2923 (append source-reqopt-args (list source-rest-arg)))
2924 (t (mapcar (function
2925 (lambda (arg)
2926 (setq target-arg-index (1+ target-arg-index))
2927 (ad-get-argument
2928 source-arglist target-arg-index)))
2929 (append target-reqopt-args
2930 (and target-rest-arg
2931 ;; If we have a rest arg gobble up
2932 ;; remaining source args:
2933 (nthcdr (length target-reqopt-args)
2934 source-reqopt-args)))))))))
2935
2936 (defun ad-make-mapped-call (source-arglist target-arglist target-function)
2937 ;;"Makes form to call TARGET-FUNCTION with args from SOURCE-ARGLIST."
2938 (let* ((mapped-form (ad-map-arglists source-arglist target-arglist)))
2939 (if (eq (car mapped-form) 'funcall)
2940 (cons target-function (cdr (cdr mapped-form)))
2941 (prog1 mapped-form
2942 (setcar (cdr mapped-form) (list 'quote target-function))))))
2943
2944 ;; @@@ Making an advised documentation string:
2945 ;; ===========================================
2946 ;; New policy: The documentation string for an advised function will be built
2947 ;; at the time the advised `documentation' function is called. This has the
2948 ;; following advantages:
2949 ;; 1) command-key substitutions will automatically be correct
2950 ;; 2) No wasted string space due to big advised docstrings in caches or
2951 ;; compiled files that contain preactivations
2952 ;; The overall overhead for this should be negligible because people normally
2953 ;; don't lookup documentation for the same function over and over again.
2954
2955 (defun ad-make-single-advice-docstring (advice class &optional style)
2956 (let ((advice-docstring (ad-docstring (ad-advice-definition advice))))
2957 (cond ((eq style 'plain)
2958 advice-docstring)
2959 ((eq style 'freeze)
2960 (format "Permanent %s-advice `%s':%s%s"
2961 class (ad-advice-name advice)
2962 (if advice-docstring "\n" "")
2963 (or advice-docstring "")))
2964 (t (format "%s-advice `%s':%s%s"
2965 (capitalize (symbol-name class)) (ad-advice-name advice)
2966 (if advice-docstring "\n" "")
2967 (or advice-docstring ""))))))
2968
2969 (defun ad-make-advised-docstring (function &optional style)
2970 ;;"Constructs a documentation string for the advised FUNCTION.
2971 ;;It concatenates the original documentation with the documentation
2972 ;;strings of the individual pieces of advice which will be formatted
2973 ;;according to STYLE. STYLE can be `plain' or `freeze', everything else
2974 ;;will be interpreted as `default'. The order of the advice documentation
2975 ;;strings corresponds to before/around/after and the individual ordering
2976 ;;in any of these classes."
2977 (let* ((origdef (ad-real-orig-definition function))
2978 (origtype (symbol-name (ad-definition-type origdef)))
2979 (origdoc
2980 ;; Retrieve raw doc, key substitution will be taken care of later:
2981 (ad-real-documentation origdef t))
2982 paragraphs advice-docstring)
2983 (if origdoc (setq paragraphs (list origdoc)))
2984 (if (not (eq style 'plain))
2985 (setq paragraphs (cons (concat "This " origtype " is advised.")
2986 paragraphs)))
2987 (ad-dolist (class ad-advice-classes)
2988 (ad-dolist (advice (ad-get-enabled-advices function class))
2989 (setq advice-docstring
2990 (ad-make-single-advice-docstring advice class style))
2991 (if advice-docstring
2992 (setq paragraphs (cons advice-docstring paragraphs)))))
2993 (if paragraphs
2994 ;; separate paragraphs with blank lines:
2995 (mapconcat 'identity (nreverse paragraphs) "\n\n"))))
2996
2997 (defun ad-make-plain-docstring (function)
2998 (ad-make-advised-docstring function 'plain))
2999 (defun ad-make-freeze-docstring (function)
3000 (ad-make-advised-docstring function 'freeze))
3001
3002 ;; @@@ Accessing overriding arglists and interactive forms:
3003 ;; ========================================================
3004
3005 (defun ad-advised-arglist (function)
3006 ;;"Finds first defined arglist in FUNCTION's redefining advices."
3007 (ad-dolist (advice (append (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'before)
3008 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'around)
3009 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'after)))
3010 (let ((arglist (ad-arglist (ad-advice-definition advice))))
3011 (if arglist
3012 ;; We found the first one, use it:
3013 (ad-do-return arglist)))))
3014
3015 (defun ad-advised-interactive-form (function)
3016 ;;"Finds first interactive form in FUNCTION's redefining advices."
3017 (ad-dolist (advice (append (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'before)
3018 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'around)
3019 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'after)))
3020 (let ((interactive-form
3021 (ad-interactive-form (ad-advice-definition advice))))
3022 (if interactive-form
3023 ;; We found the first one, use it:
3024 (ad-do-return interactive-form)))))
3025
3026 ;; @@@ Putting it all together:
3027 ;; ============================
3028
3029 (defun ad-make-advised-definition (function)
3030 ;;"Generates an advised definition of FUNCTION from its advice info."
3031 (if (and (ad-is-advised function)
3032 (ad-has-redefining-advice function))
3033 (let* ((origdef (ad-real-orig-definition function))
3034 (origname (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'origname))
3035 (orig-interactive-p (ad-interactive-p origdef))
3036 (orig-subr-p (ad-subr-p origdef))
3037 (orig-special-form-p (ad-special-form-p origdef))
3038 (orig-macro-p (ad-macro-p origdef))
3039 ;; Construct the individual pieces that we need for assembly:
3040 (orig-arglist (ad-arglist origdef function))
3041 (advised-arglist (or (ad-advised-arglist function)
3042 orig-arglist))
3043 (advised-interactive-form (ad-advised-interactive-form function))
3044 (interactive-form
3045 (cond (orig-macro-p nil)
3046 (advised-interactive-form)
3047 ((ad-interactive-form origdef))
3048 ;; Otherwise we must have a subr: make it interactive if
3049 ;; we have to and initialize required arguments in case
3050 ;; it is called interactively:
3051 (orig-interactive-p
3052 (let ((reqargs (car (ad-parse-arglist advised-arglist))))
3053 (if reqargs
3054 (` (interactive
3055 '(, (make-list (length reqargs) nil))))
3056 '(interactive))))))
3057 (orig-form
3058 (cond ((or orig-special-form-p orig-macro-p)
3059 ;; Special forms and macros will be advised into macros.
3060 ;; The trick is to construct an expansion for the advised
3061 ;; macro that does the correct thing when it gets eval'ed.
3062 ;; For macros we'll just use the expansion of the original
3063 ;; macro and return that. This way compiled advised macros
3064 ;; will be expanded into something useful. Note that after
3065 ;; advices have full control over whether they want to
3066 ;; evaluate the expansion (the value of `ad-return-value')
3067 ;; at macro expansion time or not. For special forms there
3068 ;; is no solution that interacts reasonably with the
3069 ;; compiler, hence we just evaluate the original at macro
3070 ;; expansion time and return the result. The moral of that
3071 ;; is that one should always deactivate advised special
3072 ;; forms before one byte-compiles a file.
3073 (` ((, (if orig-macro-p
3074 'macroexpand
3075 'eval))
3076 (cons '(, origname)
3077 (, (ad-get-arguments advised-arglist 0))))))
3078 ((and orig-subr-p
3079 orig-interactive-p
3080 (not advised-interactive-form))
3081 ;; Check whether we were called interactively
3082 ;; in order to do proper prompting:
3083 (` (if (interactive-p)
3084 (call-interactively '(, origname))
3085 (, (ad-make-mapped-call
3086 orig-arglist advised-arglist origname)))))
3087 ;; And now for normal functions and non-interactive subrs
3088 ;; (or subrs whose interactive behavior was advised):
3089 (t (ad-make-mapped-call
3090 advised-arglist orig-arglist origname)))))
3091
3092 ;; Finally, build the sucker:
3093 (ad-assemble-advised-definition
3094 (cond (orig-macro-p 'macro)
3095 (orig-special-form-p 'special-form)
3096 (t 'function))
3097 advised-arglist
3098 (ad-make-advised-definition-docstring function)
3099 interactive-form
3100 orig-form
3101 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'before)
3102 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'around)
3103 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'after)))))
3104
3105 (defun ad-assemble-advised-definition
3106 (type args docstring interactive orig &optional befores arounds afters)
3107
3108 ;;"Assembles an original and its advices into an advised function.
3109 ;;It constructs a function or macro definition according to TYPE which has to
3110 ;;be either `macro', `function' or `special-form'. ARGS is the argument list
3111 ;;that has to be used, DOCSTRING if non-nil defines the documentation of the
3112 ;;definition, INTERACTIVE if non-nil is the interactive form to be used,
3113 ;;ORIG is a form that calls the body of the original unadvised function,
3114 ;;and BEFORES, AROUNDS and AFTERS are the lists of advices with which ORIG
3115 ;;should be modified. The assembled function will be returned."
3116
3117 (let (before-forms around-form around-form-protected after-forms definition)
3118 (ad-dolist (advice befores)
3119 (cond ((and (ad-advice-protected advice)
3120 before-forms)
3121 (setq before-forms
3122 (` ((unwind-protect
3123 (, (ad-prognify before-forms))
3124 (,@ (ad-body-forms
3125 (ad-advice-definition advice))))))))
3126 (t (setq before-forms
3127 (append before-forms
3128 (ad-body-forms (ad-advice-definition advice)))))))
3129
3130 (setq around-form (` (setq ad-return-value (, orig))))
3131 (ad-dolist (advice (reverse arounds))
3132 ;; If any of the around advices is protected then we
3133 ;; protect the complete around advice onion:
3134 (if (ad-advice-protected advice)
3135 (setq around-form-protected t))
3136 (setq around-form
3137 (ad-substitute-tree
3138 (function (lambda (form) (eq form 'ad-do-it)))
3139 (function (lambda (form) around-form))
3140 (ad-prognify (ad-body-forms (ad-advice-definition advice))))))
3141
3142 (setq after-forms
3143 (if (and around-form-protected before-forms)
3144 (` ((unwind-protect
3145 (, (ad-prognify before-forms))
3146 (, around-form))))
3147 (append before-forms (list around-form))))
3148 (ad-dolist (advice afters)
3149 (cond ((and (ad-advice-protected advice)
3150 after-forms)
3151 (setq after-forms
3152 (` ((unwind-protect
3153 (, (ad-prognify after-forms))
3154 (,@ (ad-body-forms
3155 (ad-advice-definition advice))))))))
3156 (t (setq after-forms
3157 (append after-forms
3158 (ad-body-forms (ad-advice-definition advice)))))))
3159
3160 (setq definition
3161 (` ((,@ (if (memq type '(macro special-form)) '(macro)))
3162 lambda
3163 (, args)
3164 (,@ (if docstring (list docstring)))
3165 (,@ (if interactive (list interactive)))
3166 (let (ad-return-value)
3167 (,@ after-forms)
3168 (, (if (eq type 'special-form)
3169 '(list 'quote ad-return-value)
3170 'ad-return-value))))))
3171
3172 (ad-insert-argument-access-forms definition args)))
3173
3174 ;; This is needed for activation/deactivation hooks:
3175 (defun ad-make-hook-form (function hook-name)
3176 ;;"Makes hook-form from FUNCTION's advice bodies in class HOOK-NAME."
3177 (let ((hook-forms
3178 (mapcar (function (lambda (advice)
3179 (ad-body-forms (ad-advice-definition advice))))
3180 (ad-get-enabled-advices function hook-name))))
3181 (if hook-forms
3182 (ad-prognify (apply 'append hook-forms)))))
3183
3184
3185 ;; @@ Caching:
3186 ;; ===========
3187 ;; Generating an advised definition of a function is moderately expensive,
3188 ;; hence, it makes sense to cache it so we can reuse it in appropriate
3189 ;; circumstances. Of course, it only makes sense to reuse a cached
3190 ;; definition if the current advice and function definition state is the
3191 ;; same as it was at the time when the cached definition was generated.
3192 ;; For that purpose we associate every cache with an id so we can verify
3193 ;; if it is still valid at a certain point in time. This id mechanism
3194 ;; makes it possible to preactivate advised functions, write the compiled
3195 ;; advised definitions to a file and reuse them during the actual
3196 ;; activation without having to risk that the resulting definition will be
3197 ;; incorrect, well, almost.
3198 ;;
3199 ;; A cache id is a list with six elements:
3200 ;; 1) the list of names of enabled before advices
3201 ;; 2) the list of names of enabled around advices
3202 ;; 3) the list of names of enabled after advices
3203 ;; 4) the type of the original function (macro, subr, etc.)
3204 ;; 5) the arglist of the original definition (or t if it was equal to the
3205 ;; arglist of the cached definition)
3206 ;; 6) t if the interactive form of the original definition was equal to the
3207 ;; interactive form of the cached definition
3208 ;;
3209 ;; Here's how a cache can get invalidated or be incorrect:
3210 ;; A) a piece of advice used in the cache gets redefined
3211 ;; B) the current list of enabled advices is different from the ones used
3212 ;; for the cache
3213 ;; C) the type of the original function changed, e.g., a function became a
3214 ;; macro, or a subr became a function
3215 ;; D) the arglist of the original function changed
3216 ;; E) the interactive form of the original function changed
3217 ;; F) a piece of advice used in the cache got redefined before the
3218 ;; defadvice with the cached definition got loaded: This is a PROBLEM!
3219 ;;
3220 ;; Cases A and B are the normal ones. A is taken care of by `ad-add-advice'
3221 ;; which clears the cache in such a case, B is easily checked during
3222 ;; verification at activation time.
3223 ;;
3224 ;; Cases C, D and E have to be considered if one is slightly paranoid, i.e.,
3225 ;; if one considers the case that the original function could be different
3226 ;; from the one available at caching time (e.g., for forward advice of
3227 ;; functions that get redefined by some packages - such as `eval-region' gets
3228 ;; redefined by edebug). All these cases can be easily checked during
3229 ;; verification. Element 4 of the id lets one check case C, element 5 takes
3230 ;; care of case D (using t in the equality case saves some space, because the
3231 ;; arglist can be recovered at validation time from the cached definition),
3232 ;; and element 6 takes care of case E which is only a problem if the original
3233 ;; was actually a function whose interactive form was not overridden by a
3234 ;; piece of advice.
3235 ;;
3236 ;; Case F is the only one which will lead to an incorrect advised function.
3237 ;; There is no way to avoid this without storing the complete advice definition
3238 ;; in the cache-id which is not feasible.
3239 ;;
3240 ;; The cache-id of a typical advised function with one piece of advice and
3241 ;; no arglist redefinition takes 7 conses which is a small price to pay for
3242 ;; the added efficiency. The validation itself is also pretty cheap, certainly
3243 ;; a lot cheaper than reconstructing an advised definition.
3244
3245 (defmacro ad-get-cache-definition (function)
3246 (` (car (ad-get-advice-info-field (, function) 'cache))))
3247
3248 (defmacro ad-get-cache-id (function)
3249 (` (cdr (ad-get-advice-info-field (, function) 'cache))))
3250
3251 (defmacro ad-set-cache (function definition id)
3252 (` (ad-set-advice-info-field
3253 (, function) 'cache (cons (, definition) (, id)))))
3254
3255 (defun ad-clear-cache (function)
3256 "Clears a previously cached advised definition of FUNCTION.
3257 Clear the cache if you want to force `ad-activate' to construct a new
3258 advised definition from scratch."
3259 (interactive
3260 (list (ad-read-advised-function "Clear cached definition of: ")))
3261 (ad-set-advice-info-field function 'cache nil))
3262
3263 (defun ad-make-cache-id (function)
3264 ;;"Generates an identifying image of the current advices of FUNCTION."
3265 (let ((original-definition (ad-real-orig-definition function))
3266 (cached-definition (ad-get-cache-definition function)))
3267 (list (mapcar (function (lambda (advice) (ad-advice-name advice)))
3268 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'before))
3269 (mapcar (function (lambda (advice) (ad-advice-name advice)))
3270 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'around))
3271 (mapcar (function (lambda (advice) (ad-advice-name advice)))
3272 (ad-get-enabled-advices function 'after))
3273 (ad-definition-type original-definition)
3274 (if (equal (ad-arglist original-definition function)
3275 (ad-arglist cached-definition))
3276 t
3277 (ad-arglist original-definition function))
3278 (if (eq (ad-definition-type original-definition) 'function)
3279 (equal (ad-interactive-form original-definition)
3280 (ad-interactive-form cached-definition))))))
3281
3282 (defun ad-get-cache-class-id (function class)
3283 ;;"Returns the part of FUNCTION's cache id that identifies CLASS."
3284 (let ((cache-id (ad-get-cache-id function)))
3285 (if (eq class 'before)
3286 (car cache-id)
3287 (if (eq class 'around)
3288 (nth 1 cache-id)
3289 (nth 2 cache-id)))))
3290
3291 (defun ad-verify-cache-class-id (cache-class-id advices)
3292 (ad-dolist (advice advices (null cache-class-id))
3293 (if (ad-advice-enabled advice)
3294 (if (eq (car cache-class-id) (ad-advice-name advice))
3295 (setq cache-class-id (cdr cache-class-id))
3296 (ad-do-return nil)))))
3297
3298 ;; There should be a way to monitor if and why a cache verification failed
3299 ;; in order to determine whether a certain preactivation could be used or
3300 ;; not. Right now the only way to find out is to trace
3301 ;; `ad-cache-id-verification-code'. The code it returns indicates where the
3302 ;; verification failed. Tracing `ad-verify-cache-class-id' might provide
3303 ;; some additional useful information.
3304
3305 (defun ad-cache-id-verification-code (function)
3306 (let ((cache-id (ad-get-cache-id function))
3307 (code 'before-advice-mismatch))
3308 (and (ad-verify-cache-class-id
3309 (car cache-id) (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'before))
3310 (setq code 'around-advice-mismatch)
3311 (ad-verify-cache-class-id
3312 (nth 1 cache-id) (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'around))
3313 (setq code 'after-advice-mismatch)
3314 (ad-verify-cache-class-id
3315 (nth 2 cache-id) (ad-get-advice-info-field function 'after))
3316 (setq code 'definition-type-mismatch)
3317 (let ((original-definition (ad-real-orig-definition function))
3318 (cached-definition (ad-get-cache-definition function)))
3319 (and (eq (nth 3 cache-id) (ad-definition-type original-definition))
3320 (setq code 'arglist-mismatch)
3321 (equal (if (eq (nth 4 cache-id) t)
3322 (ad-arglist original-definition function)
3323 (nth 4 cache-id) )
3324 (ad-arglist cached-definition))
3325 (setq code 'interactive-form-mismatch)
3326 (or (null (nth 5 cache-id))
3327 (equal (ad-interactive-form original-definition)
3328 (ad-interactive-form cached-definition)))
3329 (setq code 'verified))))
3330 code))
3331
3332 (defun ad-verify-cache-id (function)
3333 ;;"True if FUNCTION's cache-id is compatible with its current advices."
3334 (eq (ad-cache-id-verification-code function) 'verified))
3335
3336
3337 ;; @@ Preactivation:
3338 ;; =================
3339 ;; Preactivation can be used to generate compiled advised definitions
3340 ;; at compile time without having to give up the dynamic runtime flexibility
3341 ;; of the advice mechanism. Preactivation is a special feature of `defadvice',
3342 ;; it involves the following steps:
3343 ;; - remembering the function's current state (definition and advice-info)
3344 ;; - advising it with the defined piece of advice
3345 ;; - clearing its cache
3346 ;; - generating an interpreted advised definition by activating it, this will
3347 ;; make use of all its current active advice and its current definition
3348 ;; - saving the so generated cached definition and id
3349 ;; - resetting the function's advice and definition state to what it was
3350 ;; before the preactivation
3351 ;; - Returning the saved definition and its id to be used in the expansion of
3352 ;; `defadvice' to assign it as an initial cache, hence it will be compiled
3353 ;; at time the `defadvice' gets compiled.
3354 ;; Naturally, for preactivation to be effective it has to be applied/compiled
3355 ;; at the right time, i.e., when the current state of advices and function
3356 ;; definition exactly reflects the state at activation time. Should that not
3357 ;; be the case, the precompiled definition will just be discarded and a new
3358 ;; advised definition will be generated.
3359
3360 (defun ad-preactivate-advice (function advice class position)
3361 ;;"Preactivates FUNCTION and returns the constructed cache."
3362 (let* ((function-defined-p (fboundp function))
3363 (old-definition
3364 (if function-defined-p
3365 (symbol-function function)))
3366 (old-advice-info (ad-copy-advice-info function))
3367 (ad-advised-functions ad-advised-functions))
3368 (unwind-protect
3369 (progn
3370 (ad-add-advice function advice class position)
3371 (ad-enable-advice function class (ad-advice-name advice))
3372 (ad-clear-cache function)
3373 (ad-activate-on function -1)
3374 (if (and (ad-is-active function)
3375 (ad-get-cache-definition function))
3376 (list (ad-get-cache-definition function)
3377 (ad-get-cache-id function))))
3378 (ad-set-advice-info function old-advice-info)
3379 ;; Don't `fset' function to nil if it was previously unbound:
3380 (if function-defined-p
3381 (ad-safe-fset function old-definition)
3382 (fmakunbound function)))))
3383
3384
3385 ;; @@ Freezing:
3386 ;; ============
3387 ;; Freezing transforms a `defadvice' into a redefining `defun/defmacro'
3388 ;; for the advised function without keeping any advice information. This
3389 ;; feature was jwz's idea: It generates a dumpable function definition
3390 ;; whose documentation can be written to the DOC file, and the generated
3391 ;; code does not need any Advice runtime support. Of course, frozen advices
3392 ;; cannot be undone.
3393
3394 ;; Freezing only considers the advice of the particular `defadvice', other
3395 ;; already existing advices for the same function will be ignored. To ensure
3396 ;; proper interaction when an already advised function gets redefined with
3397 ;; a frozen advice, frozen advices always use the actual original definition
3398 ;; of the function, i.e., they are always at the core of the onion. E.g., if
3399 ;; an already advised function gets redefined with a frozen advice and then
3400 ;; unadvised, the frozen advice remains as the new definition of the function.
3401
3402 ;; While multiple freeze advices for a single function or freeze-advising
3403 ;; of an already advised function are possible, they are better avoided,
3404 ;; because definition/compile/load ordering is relevant, and it becomes
3405 ;; incomprehensible pretty quickly.
3406
3407 (defun ad-make-freeze-definition (function advice class position)
3408 (if (not (ad-has-proper-definition function))
3409 (error
3410 "ad-make-freeze-definition: `%s' is not yet defined"
3411 function))
3412 (let* ((name (ad-advice-name advice))
3413 ;; With a unique origname we can have multiple freeze advices
3414 ;; for the same function, each overloading the previous one:
3415 (unique-origname
3416 (intern (format "%s-%s-%s" (ad-make-origname function) class name)))
3417 (orig-definition
3418 ;; If FUNCTION is already advised, we'll use its current origdef
3419 ;; as the original definition of the frozen advice:
3420 (or (ad-get-orig-definition function)
3421 (symbol-function function)))
3422 (old-advice-info
3423 (if (ad-is-advised function)
3424 (ad-copy-advice-info function)))
3425 (real-docstring-fn
3426 (symbol-function 'ad-make-advised-definition-docstring))
3427 (real-origname-fn
3428 (symbol-function 'ad-make-origname))
3429 (frozen-definition
3430 (unwind-protect
3431 (progn
3432 ;; Make sure we construct a proper docstring:
3433 (ad-safe-fset 'ad-make-advised-definition-docstring
3434 'ad-make-freeze-docstring)
3435 ;; Make sure `unique-origname' is used as the origname:
3436 (ad-safe-fset 'ad-make-origname '(lambda (x) unique-origname))
3437 ;; No we reset all current advice information to nil and
3438 ;; generate an advised definition that's solely determined
3439 ;; by ADVICE and the current origdef of FUNCTION:
3440 (ad-set-advice-info function nil)
3441 (ad-add-advice function advice class position)
3442 ;; The following will provide proper real docstrings as
3443 ;; well as a definition that will make the compiler happy:
3444 (ad-set-orig-definition function orig-definition)
3445 (ad-make-advised-definition function))
3446 ;; Restore the old advice state:
3447 (ad-set-advice-info function old-advice-info)
3448 ;; Restore functions:
3449 (ad-safe-fset
3450 'ad-make-advised-definition-docstring real-docstring-fn)
3451 (ad-safe-fset 'ad-make-origname real-origname-fn))))
3452 (if frozen-definition
3453 (let* ((macro-p (ad-macro-p frozen-definition))
3454 (body (cdr (if macro-p
3455 (ad-lambdafy frozen-definition)
3456 frozen-definition))))
3457 (` (progn
3458 (if (not (fboundp '(, unique-origname)))
3459 (fset '(, unique-origname)
3460 ;; avoid infinite recursion in case the function
3461 ;; we want to freeze is already advised:
3462 (or (ad-get-orig-definition '(, function))
3463 (symbol-function '(, function)))))
3464 ((, (if macro-p 'defmacro 'defun))
3465 (, function)
3466 (,@ body))))))))
3467
3468
3469 ;; @@ Activation and definition handling:
3470 ;; ======================================
3471
3472 (defun ad-should-compile (function compile)
3473 ;;"Returns non-nil if the advised FUNCTION should be compiled.
3474 ;;If COMPILE is non-nil and not a negative number then it returns t.
3475 ;;If COMPILE is a negative number then it returns nil.
3476 ;;If COMPILE is nil then the result depends on the value of
3477 ;;`ad-default-compilation-action' (which see)."
3478 (if (integerp compile)
3479 (>= compile 0)
3480 (if compile
3481 compile
3482 (cond ((eq ad-default-compilation-action 'never)
3483 nil)
3484 ((eq ad-default-compilation-action 'always)
3485 t)
3486 ((eq ad-default-compilation-action 'like-original)
3487 (or (ad-subr-p (ad-get-orig-definition function))
3488 (ad-compiled-p (ad-get-orig-definition function))))
3489 ;; everything else means `maybe':
3490 (t (featurep 'byte-compile))))))
3491
3492 (defun ad-activate-advised-definition (function compile)
3493 ;;"Redefines FUNCTION with its advised definition from cache or scratch.
3494 ;;The resulting FUNCTION will be compiled if `ad-should-compile' returns t.
3495 ;;The current definition and its cache-id will be put into the cache."
3496 (let ((verified-cached-definition
3497 (if (ad-verify-cache-id function)
3498 (ad-get-cache-definition function))))
3499 (ad-safe-fset function
3500 (or verified-cached-definition
3501 (ad-make-advised-definition function)))
3502 (if (ad-should-compile function compile)
3503 (ad-compile-function function))
3504 (if verified-cached-definition
3505 (if (not (eq verified-cached-definition (symbol-function function)))
3506 ;; we must have compiled, cache the compiled definition:
3507 (ad-set-cache
3508 function (symbol-function function) (ad-get-cache-id function)))
3509 ;; We created a new advised definition, cache it with a proper id:
3510 (ad-clear-cache function)
3511 ;; ad-make-cache-id needs the new cached definition:
3512 (ad-set-cache function (symbol-function function) nil)
3513 (ad-set-cache
3514 function (symbol-function function) (ad-make-cache-id function)))))
3515
3516 (defun ad-handle-definition (function)
3517 "Handles re/definition of an advised FUNCTION during de/activation.
3518 If FUNCTION does not have an original definition associated with it and
3519 the current definition is usable, then it will be stored as FUNCTION's
3520 original definition. If no current definition is available (even in the
3521 case of undefinition) nothing will be done. In the case of redefinition
3522 the action taken depends on the value of `ad-redefinition-action' (which
3523 see). Redefinition occurs when FUNCTION already has an original definition
3524 associated with it but got redefined with a new definition and then
3525 de/activated. If you do not like the current redefinition action change
3526 the value of `ad-redefinition-action' and de/activate again."
3527 (let ((original-definition (ad-get-orig-definition function))
3528 (current-definition (if (ad-real-definition function)
3529 (symbol-function function))))
3530 (if original-definition
3531 (if current-definition
3532 (if (and (not (eq current-definition original-definition))
3533 ;; Redefinition with an advised definition from a
3534 ;; different function won't count as such:
3535 (not (ad-advised-definition-p current-definition)))
3536 ;; we have a redefinition:
3537 (if (not (memq ad-redefinition-action '(accept discard warn)))
3538 (error "ad-handle-definition (see its doc): `%s' %s"
3539 function "illegally redefined")
3540 (if (eq ad-redefinition-action 'discard)
3541 (ad-safe-fset function original-definition)
3542 (ad-set-orig-definition function current-definition)
3543 (if (eq ad-redefinition-action 'warn)
3544 (message "ad-handle-definition: `%s' got redefined"
3545 function))))
3546 ;; either advised def or correct original is in place:
3547 nil)
3548 ;; we have an undefinition, ignore it:
3549 nil)
3550 (if current-definition
3551 ;; we have a first definition, save it as original:
3552 (ad-set-orig-definition function current-definition)
3553 ;; we don't have anything noteworthy:
3554 nil))))
3555
3556
3557 ;; @@ The top-level advice interface:
3558 ;; ==================================
3559
3560 (defun ad-activate-on (function &optional compile)
3561 "Activates all the advice information of an advised FUNCTION.
3562 If FUNCTION has a proper original definition then an advised
3563 definition will be generated from FUNCTION's advice info and the
3564 definition of FUNCTION will be replaced with it. If a previously
3565 cached advised definition was available, it will be used.
3566 The optional COMPILE argument determines whether the resulting function
3567 or a compilable cached definition will be compiled. If it is negative
3568 no compilation will be performed, if it is positive or otherwise non-nil
3569 the resulting function will be compiled, if it is nil the behavior depends
3570 on the value of `ad-default-compilation-action' (which see).
3571 Activation of an advised function that has an advice info but no actual
3572 pieces of advice is equivalent to a call to `ad-unadvise'. Activation of
3573 an advised function that has actual pieces of advice but none of them are
3574 enabled is equivalent to a call to `ad-deactivate'. The current advised
3575 definition will always be cached for later usage."
3576 (interactive
3577 (list (ad-read-advised-function "Activate advice of: ")
3578 current-prefix-arg))
3579 (if ad-activate-on-top-level
3580 ;; avoid recursive calls to `ad-activate-on':
3581 (ad-with-auto-activation-disabled
3582 (if (not (ad-is-advised function))
3583 (error "ad-activate: `%s' is not advised" function)
3584 (ad-handle-definition function)
3585 ;; Just return for forward advised and not yet defined functions:
3586 (if (ad-get-orig-definition function)
3587 (if (not (ad-has-any-advice function))
3588 (ad-unadvise function)
3589 ;; Otherwise activate the advice:
3590 (cond ((ad-has-redefining-advice function)
3591 (ad-activate-advised-definition function compile)
3592 (ad-set-advice-info-field function 'active t)
3593 (eval (ad-make-hook-form function 'activation))
3594 function)
3595 ;; Here we are if we have all disabled advices:
3596 (t (ad-deactivate function)))))))))
3597
3598 (defun ad-deactivate (function)
3599 "Deactivates the advice of an actively advised FUNCTION.
3600 If FUNCTION has a proper original definition, then the current
3601 definition of FUNCTION will be replaced with it. All the advice
3602 information will still be available so it can be activated again with
3603 a call to `ad-activate'."
3604 (interactive
3605 (list (ad-read-advised-function "Deactivate advice of: " 'ad-is-active)))
3606 (if (not (ad-is-advised function))
3607 (error "ad-deactivate: `%s' is not advised" function)
3608 (cond ((ad-is-active function)
3609 (ad-handle-definition function)
3610 (if (not (ad-get-orig-definition function))
3611 (error "ad-deactivate: `%s' has no original definition"
3612 function)
3613 (ad-safe-fset function (ad-get-orig-definition function))
3614 (ad-set-advice-info-field function 'active nil)
3615 (eval (ad-make-hook-form function 'deactivation))
3616 function)))))
3617
3618 (defun ad-update (function &optional compile)
3619 "Update the advised definition of FUNCTION if its advice is active.
3620 See `ad-activate-on' for documentation on the optional COMPILE argument."
3621 (interactive
3622 (list (ad-read-advised-function
3623 "Update advised definition of: " 'ad-is-active)))
3624 (if (ad-is-active function)
3625 (ad-activate-on function compile)))
3626
3627 (defun ad-unadvise (function)
3628 "Deactivates FUNCTION and then removes all its advice information.
3629 If FUNCTION was not advised this will be a noop."
3630 (interactive
3631 (list (ad-read-advised-function "Unadvise function: ")))
3632 (cond ((ad-is-advised function)
3633 (if (ad-is-active function)
3634 (ad-deactivate function))
3635 (ad-clear-orig-definition function)
3636 (ad-set-advice-info function nil)
3637 (ad-pop-advised-function function))))
3638
3639 (defun ad-recover (function)
3640 "Tries to recover FUNCTION's original definition and unadvises it.
3641 This is more low-level than `ad-unadvise' because it does not do any
3642 deactivation which might run hooks and get into other trouble.
3643 Use in emergencies."
3644 ;; Use more primitive interactive behavior here: Accept any symbol that's
3645 ;; currently defined in obarray, not necessarily with a function definition:
3646 (interactive
3647 (list (intern
3648 (completing-read "Recover advised function: " obarray nil t))))
3649 (cond ((ad-is-advised function)
3650 (cond ((ad-get-orig-definition function)
3651 (ad-safe-fset function (ad-get-orig-definition function))
3652 (ad-clear-orig-definition function)))
3653 (ad-set-advice-info function nil)
3654 (ad-pop-advised-function function))))
3655
3656 (defun ad-activate-regexp (regexp &optional compile)
3657 "Activates functions with an advice name containing a REGEXP match.
3658 See `ad-activate-on' for documentation on the optional COMPILE argument."
3659 (interactive
3660 (list (ad-read-regexp "Activate via advice regexp: ")
3661 current-prefix-arg))
3662 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3663 (if (ad-find-some-advice function 'any regexp)
3664 (ad-activate-on function compile))))
3665
3666 (defun ad-deactivate-regexp (regexp)
3667 "Deactivates functions with an advice name containing REGEXP match."
3668 (interactive
3669 (list (ad-read-regexp "Deactivate via advice regexp: ")))
3670 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3671 (if (ad-find-some-advice function 'any regexp)
3672 (ad-deactivate function))))
3673
3674 (defun ad-update-regexp (regexp &optional compile)
3675 "Updates functions with an advice name containing a REGEXP match.
3676 See `ad-activate-on' for documentation on the optional COMPILE argument."
3677 (interactive
3678 (list (ad-read-regexp "Update via advice regexp: ")
3679 current-prefix-arg))
3680 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3681 (if (ad-find-some-advice function 'any regexp)
3682 (ad-update function compile))))
3683
3684 (defun ad-activate-all (&optional compile)
3685 "Activates all currently advised functions.
3686 See `ad-activate-on' for documentation on the optional COMPILE argument."
3687 (interactive "P")
3688 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3689 (ad-activate-on function compile)))
3690
3691 (defun ad-deactivate-all ()
3692 "Deactivates all currently advised functions."
3693 (interactive)
3694 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3695 (ad-deactivate function)))
3696
3697 (defun ad-update-all (&optional compile)
3698 "Updates all currently advised functions.
3699 With prefix argument compiles resulting advised definitions."
3700 (interactive "P")
3701 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3702 (ad-update function compile)))
3703
3704 (defun ad-unadvise-all ()
3705 "Unadvises all currently advised functions."
3706 (interactive)
3707 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3708 (ad-unadvise function)))
3709
3710 (defun ad-recover-all ()
3711 "Recovers all currently advised functions. Use in emergencies."
3712 (interactive)
3713 (ad-do-advised-functions (function)
3714 (condition-case nil
3715 (ad-recover function)
3716 (error nil))))
3717
3718
3719 ;; Completion alist of legal `defadvice' flags
3720 (defvar ad-defadvice-flags
3721 '(("protect") ("disable") ("activate")
3722 ("compile") ("preactivate") ("freeze")))
3723
3724 ;;;###autoload
3725 (defmacro defadvice (function args &rest body)
3726 "Defines a piece of advice for FUNCTION (a symbol).
3727 The syntax of `defadvice' is as follows:
3728
3729 (defadvice FUNCTION (CLASS NAME [POSITION] [ARGLIST] FLAG...)
3730 [DOCSTRING] [INTERACTIVE-FORM]
3731 BODY... )
3732
3733 FUNCTION ::= Name of the function to be advised.
3734 CLASS ::= `before' | `around' | `after' | `activation' | `deactivation'.
3735 NAME ::= Non-nil symbol that names this piece of advice.
3736 POSITION ::= `first' | `last' | NUMBER. Optional, defaults to `first',
3737 see also `ad-add-advice'.
3738 ARGLIST ::= An optional argument list to be used for the advised function
3739 instead of the argument list of the original. The first one found in
3740 before/around/after-advices will be used.
3741 FLAG ::= `protect'|`disable'|`activate'|`compile'|`preactivate'|`freeze'.
3742 All flags can be specified with unambiguous initial substrings.
3743 DOCSTRING ::= Optional documentation for this piece of advice.
3744 INTERACTIVE-FORM ::= Optional interactive form to be used for the advised
3745 function. The first one found in before/around/after-advices will be used.
3746 BODY ::= Any s-expression.
3747
3748 Semantics of the various flags:
3749 `protect': The piece of advice will be protected against non-local exits in
3750 any code that precedes it. If any around-advice of a function is protected
3751 then automatically all around-advices will be protected (the complete onion).
3752
3753 `activate': All advice of FUNCTION will be activated immediately if
3754 FUNCTION has been properly defined prior to this application of `defadvice'.
3755
3756 `compile': In conjunction with `activate' specifies that the resulting
3757 advised function should be compiled.
3758
3759 `disable': The defined advice will be disabled, hence, it will not be used
3760 during activation until somebody enables it.
3761
3762 `preactivate': Preactivates the advised FUNCTION at macro-expansion/compile
3763 time. This generates a compiled advised definition according to the current
3764 advice state that will be used during activation if appropriate. Only use
3765 this if the `defadvice' gets actually compiled.
3766
3767 `freeze': Expands the `defadvice' into a redefining `defun/defmacro' according
3768 to this particular single advice. No other advice information will be saved.
3769 Frozen advices cannot be undone, they behave like a hard redefinition of
3770 the advised function. `freeze' implies `activate' and `preactivate'. The
3771 documentation of the advised function can be dumped onto the `DOC' file
3772 during preloading.
3773
3774 Look at the file `advice.el' for comprehensive documentation."
3775 (if (not (ad-name-p function))
3776 (error "defadvice: Illegal function name: %s" function))
3777 (let* ((class (car args))
3778 (name (if (not (ad-class-p class))
3779 (error "defadvice: Illegal advice class: %s" class)
3780 (nth 1 args)))
3781 (position (if (not (ad-name-p name))
3782 (error "defadvice: Illegal advice name: %s" name)
3783 (setq args (nthcdr 2 args))
3784 (if (ad-position-p (car args))
3785 (prog1 (car args)
3786 (setq args (cdr args))))))
3787 (arglist (if (listp (car args))
3788 (prog1 (car args)
3789 (setq args (cdr args)))))
3790 (flags
3791 (mapcar
3792 (function
3793 (lambda (flag)
3794 (let ((completion
3795 (try-completion (symbol-name flag) ad-defadvice-flags)))
3796 (cond ((eq completion t) flag)
3797 ((assoc completion ad-defadvice-flags)
3798 (intern completion))
3799 (t (error "defadvice: Illegal or ambiguous flag: %s"
3800 flag))))))
3801 args))
3802 (advice (ad-make-advice
3803 name (memq 'protect flags)
3804 (not (memq 'disable flags))
3805 (` (advice lambda (, arglist) (,@ body)))))
3806 (preactivation (if (memq 'preactivate flags)
3807 (ad-preactivate-advice
3808 function advice class position))))
3809 ;; Now for the things to be done at evaluation time:
3810 (if (memq 'freeze flags)
3811 ;; jwz's idea: Freeze the advised definition into a dumpable
3812 ;; defun/defmacro whose docs can be written to the DOC file:
3813 (ad-make-freeze-definition function advice class position)
3814 ;; the normal case:
3815 (` (progn
3816 (ad-add-advice '(, function) '(, advice) '(, class) '(, position))
3817 (,@ (if preactivation
3818 (` ((ad-set-cache
3819 '(, function)
3820 ;; the function will get compiled:
3821 (, (cond ((ad-macro-p (car preactivation))
3822 (` (ad-macrofy
3823 (function
3824 (, (ad-lambdafy
3825 (car preactivation)))))))
3826 (t (` (function
3827 (, (car preactivation)))))))
3828 '(, (car (cdr preactivation))))))))
3829 (,@ (if (memq 'activate flags)
3830 (` ((ad-activate-on '(, function)
3831 (, (if (memq 'compile flags) t)))))))
3832 '(, function))))))
3833
3834
3835 ;; @@ Tools:
3836 ;; =========
3837
3838 (defmacro ad-with-originals (functions &rest body)
3839 "Binds FUNCTIONS to their original definitions and executes BODY.
3840 For any members of FUNCTIONS that are not currently advised the rebinding will
3841 be a noop. Any modifications done to the definitions of FUNCTIONS will be
3842 undone on exit of this macro."
3843 (let* ((index -1)
3844 ;; Make let-variables to store current definitions:
3845 (current-bindings
3846 (mapcar (function
3847 (lambda (function)
3848 (setq index (1+ index))
3849 (list (intern (format "ad-oRiGdEf-%d" index))
3850 (` (symbol-function '(, function))))))
3851 functions)))
3852 (` (let (, current-bindings)
3853 (unwind-protect
3854 (progn
3855 (,@ (progn
3856 ;; Make forms to redefine functions to their
3857 ;; original definitions if they are advised:
3858 (setq index -1)
3859 (mapcar
3860 (function
3861 (lambda (function)
3862 (setq index (1+ index))
3863 (` (ad-safe-fset
3864 '(, function)
3865 (or (ad-get-orig-definition '(, function))
3866 (, (car (nth index current-bindings))))))))
3867 functions)))
3868 (,@ body))
3869 (,@ (progn
3870 ;; Make forms to back-define functions to the definitions
3871 ;; they had outside this macro call:
3872 (setq index -1)
3873 (mapcar
3874 (function
3875 (lambda (function)
3876 (setq index (1+ index))
3877 (` (ad-safe-fset
3878 '(, function)
3879 (, (car (nth index current-bindings)))))))
3880 functions))))))))
3881
3882 (if (not (get 'ad-with-originals 'lisp-indent-hook))
3883 (put 'ad-with-originals 'lisp-indent-hook 1))
3884
3885
3886 ;; @@ Advising `documentation':
3887 ;; ============================
3888 ;; Use the advice mechanism to advise `documentation' to make it
3889 ;; generate proper documentation strings for advised definitions:
3890
3891 (defadvice documentation (after ad-advised-docstring first disable preact)
3892 "Builds an advised docstring if FUNCTION is advised."
3893 ;; Because we get the function name from the advised docstring
3894 ;; this will work for function names as well as for definitions:
3895 (if (and (stringp ad-return-value)
3896 (string-match
3897 ad-advised-definition-docstring-regexp ad-return-value))
3898 (let ((function
3899 (car (read-from-string
3900 ad-return-value (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)))))
3901 (cond ((ad-is-advised function)
3902 (setq ad-return-value (ad-make-advised-docstring function))
3903 ;; Handle optional `raw' argument:
3904 (if (not (ad-get-arg 1))
3905 (setq ad-return-value
3906 (substitute-command-keys ad-return-value))))))))
3907
3908
3909 ;; @@ Starting, stopping and recovering from the advice package magic:
3910 ;; ===================================================================
3911
3912 (defun ad-start-advice ()
3913 "Starts the automatic advice handling magic."
3914 (interactive)
3915 ;; Advising `ad-activate' means death!!
3916 (ad-set-advice-info 'ad-activate nil)
3917 (ad-safe-fset 'ad-activate 'ad-activate-on)
3918 (ad-enable-advice 'documentation 'after 'ad-advised-docstring)
3919 (ad-activate-on 'documentation 'compile))
3920
3921 (defun ad-stop-advice ()
3922 "Stops the automatic advice handling magic.
3923 You should only need this in case of Advice-related emergencies."
3924 (interactive)
3925 ;; Advising `ad-activate' means death!!
3926 (ad-set-advice-info 'ad-activate nil)
3927 (ad-disable-advice 'documentation 'after 'ad-advised-docstring)
3928 (ad-update 'documentation)
3929 (ad-safe-fset 'ad-activate 'ad-activate-off))
3930
3931 (defun ad-recover-normality ()
3932 "Undoes all advice related redefinitions and unadvises everything.
3933 Use only in REAL emergencies."
3934 (interactive)
3935 ;; Advising `ad-activate' means death!!
3936 (ad-set-advice-info 'ad-activate nil)
3937 (ad-safe-fset 'ad-activate 'ad-activate-off)
3938 (ad-recover-all)
3939 (setq ad-advised-functions nil))
3940
3941 ;; Until the Advice-related changes to `data.c' are part of Lemacs we
3942 ;; have to load the old implementation of advice activation hooks:
3943 (if (ad-lemacs-p)
3944 (require 'ad-hooks))
3945
3946 (ad-start-advice)
3947
3948 (provide 'advice)
3949
3950 ;;; advice.el ends here