;;; emacsbug.el --- command to report Emacs bugs to appropriate mailing list. ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: K. Shane Hartman ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Keywords: maint mail ;; Not fully installed because it can work only on Internet hosts. ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; `M-x report-emacs-bug ' starts an email note to the Emacs maintainers ;; describing a problem. Here's how it's done... ;;; Code: ;; >> This should be an address which is accessible to your machine, ;; >> otherwise you can't use this file. It will only work on the ;; >> internet with this address. (require 'sendmail) (defgroup emacsbug nil "Sending Emacs bug reports." :group 'maint :group 'mail) (defcustom report-emacs-bug-address "bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu" "*Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs bugs." :group 'emacsbug :type 'string) (defcustom report-emacs-bug-pretest-address "emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.ai.mit.edu" "*Address of mailing list for GNU Emacs pretest bugs." :group 'emacsbug :type 'string) (defvar report-emacs-bug-orig-text nil "The automatically-created initial text of bug report.") (defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation nil "*If non-nil, suppress the confirmations asked for the sake of novice users." :group 'emacsbug :type 'boolean) (defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-explanations nil "*If non-nil, suppress the explanations given for the sake of novice users." :group 'emacsbug :type 'boolean) ;;;###autoload (defun report-emacs-bug (topic &optional recent-keys) "Report a bug in GNU Emacs. Prompts for bug subject. Leaves you in a mail buffer." ;; This strange form ensures that (recent-keys) is the value before ;; the bug subject string is read. (interactive (reverse (list (recent-keys) (read-string "Bug Subject: ")))) (let (user-point message-end-point) (setq message-end-point (with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Messages*") (point-max-marker))) (compose-mail (if (string-match "\\..*\\..*\\." emacs-version) ;; If there are four numbers in emacs-version, ;; this is a pretest version. report-emacs-bug-pretest-address report-emacs-bug-address) topic) ;; The rest of this does not execute ;; if the user was asked to confirm and said no. (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward (concat "^" (regexp-quote mail-header-separator) "\n")) (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations ;; Insert warnings for novice users. (insert "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,\n") (let ((pos (point))) (insert " not to your local site managers!!") (put-text-property pos (point) 'face 'highlight)) (insert "\nPlease write in ") (let ((pos (point))) (insert "English") (put-text-property pos (point) 'face 'highlight)) (insert ", because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them.\n\n")) (insert "In " (emacs-version) "\n") (if (and system-configuration-options (not (equal system-configuration-options ""))) (insert "configured using `configure " system-configuration-options "'\n")) (insert "\n") (insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n" "and the precise symptoms of the bug:\n\n") (setq user-point (point)) (insert "\n\n\n" "Recent input:\n") (let ((before-keys (point))) (insert (mapconcat (lambda (key) (if (or (integerp key) (symbolp key) (listp key)) (single-key-description key) (prin1-to-string key nil))) (or recent-keys (recent-keys)) " ")) (save-restriction (narrow-to-region before-keys (point)) (goto-char before-keys) (while (progn (move-to-column 50) (not (eobp))) (search-forward " " nil t) (insert "\n")))) (let ((message-buf (get-buffer "*Messages*"))) (if message-buf (let (beg-pos (end-pos message-end-point)) (with-current-buffer message-buf (goto-char end-pos) (forward-line -10) (setq beg-pos (point))) (insert "\n\nRecent messages:\n") (insert-buffer-substring message-buf beg-pos end-pos)))) ;; This is so the user has to type something ;; in order to send easily. (use-local-map (nconc (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map))) (define-key (current-local-map) "\C-c\C-i" 'report-emacs-bug-info) (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*" (if (eq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent) (princ (substitute-command-keys "Type \\[mail-send-and-exit] to send the bug report.\n"))) (princ (substitute-command-keys "Type \\[kill-buffer] RET to cancel (don't send it).\n")) (terpri) (princ (substitute-command-keys "Type \\[report-emacs-bug-info] to visit in Info the Emacs Manual section about when and how to write a bug report, and what information to supply so that the bug can be fixed. Type SPC to scroll through this section and its subsections."))) ;; Make it less likely people will send empty messages. (make-local-variable 'mail-send-hook) (add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'report-emacs-bug-hook) ;; Discourage users to write non-English text. (set-buffer-multibyte nil) (save-excursion (goto-char (point-max)) (skip-chars-backward " \t\n") (make-local-variable 'report-emacs-bug-orig-text) (setq report-emacs-bug-orig-text (buffer-substring (point-min) (point)))) (goto-char user-point))) (defun report-emacs-bug-info () "Go to the Info node on reporting Emacs bugs." (interactive) (info) (Info-directory) (Info-menu "emacs") (Info-goto-node "Bugs")) (defun report-emacs-bug-hook () (save-excursion (goto-char (point-max)) (skip-chars-backward " \t\n") (if (and (= (- (point) (point-min)) (length report-emacs-bug-orig-text)) (equal (buffer-substring (point-min) (point)) report-emacs-bug-orig-text)) (error "No text entered in bug report")) ;; Check the buffer contents and reject non-English letters. (let ((charsets (delq 'ascii (find-charset-region (point-min) (point-max))))) (if charsets (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation (y-or-n-p "Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? ")) (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (let ((pattern (format "[^%c-%c]" 0 127)) ch) (while (re-search-forward pattern nil t) (setq ch (preceding-char)) (delete-char -1) (insert (format "=%02x" ch))))) (error "Please convert non-ASCII characters to something else")))) ;; The last warning for novice users. (if (or report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation (yes-or-no-p "Send this bug report to the Emacs maintainers? ")) ;; Just send the current mail. nil (goto-char (point-min)) (if (search-forward "To: ") (let ((pos (point))) (end-of-line) (delete-region pos (point)))) (kill-local-variable 'mail-send-hook) (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*" (princ (substitute-command-keys "\ You invoked the command M-x report-emacs-bug, but you decided not to mail the bug report to the Emacs maintainers. If you want to mail it to someone else instead, please insert the proper e-mail address after \"To: \", and send the mail again using \\[mail-send-and-exit]."))) (error "M-x report-emacs-bug was cancelled, please read *Bug Help* buffer")) )) (provide 'emacsbug) ;;; emacsbug.el ends here