Re: [bug-idutils] idutils.el and Emacs 22

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

>> Anybody considered trying to get this code into Emacs rather than
>> shipping it in idutils?

Jim> I haven't, but if you're inclined, please do!

I'll think about it :)

Jim> Thanks, Tom.
Jim> Welcome to idutils :-)

Thanks!

Jim> I like all of your changes except for the part that suppresses creation
Jim> of a per-invocation *gid-FOO* buffer in favor of a single "*gid*" buffer.

Jim> Believe it or not, having *gid-FOO*, *gid-BAR*, *gid-BAZ*, etc. buffers
Jim> simultaneously is a feature :-)

I tried it a while but didn't like it.  How about making it an option?
The appended does that, having it default to the per-invocation
buffer-name behavior.

Tom

;;; idutils.el -- emacs interface to `lid -R grep', a.k.a. `gid'
;;; Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;;; Greg McGary <address@hidden>.

;; This file is part of GNU idutils.

;; GNU idutils is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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;; any later version.

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;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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;; Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
;; MA 02111-1307, USA.

;;; This package provides the tools meant to help editing PO files,
;;; as documented in the GNU idutils user's manual.  See this manual
;;; for user documentation, which is not repeated here.

;;; To install, merely put this file somewhere GNU Emacs will find it,
;;; then add the following lines to your .emacs file:
;;;
;;;   (autoload 'gid "idutils")
;;;
;;; You may also adjust some customizations variables, below, by defining
;;; them in your .emacs file.

(require 'compile)
(require 'thingatpt)

(defvar gid-command "gid" "The command run by the gid function.")

(defvar gid-mode-font-lock-keywords
  '(("^\\(Compilation\\|Gid\\) started.*"
     (0 '(face nil message nil help-echo nil mouse-face nil) t))))

(defvar gid-use-search-in-buffer-name t
  "If non-nil, use the search string in the gid buffer's name.")

(define-compilation-mode gid-mode "Gid"
  "Specialization of compilation-mode for use with gid."
  nil)

(defun gid (args)
  "Run gid, with user-specified ARGS, and collect output in a buffer.
While gid runs asynchronously, you can use the \\[next-error] command to
find the text that gid hits refer to. The command actually run is
defined by the gid-command variable."
  (interactive (list (read-input
     (concat "Run " gid-command " (with args): ") (thing-at-point 'symbol))))
  (let (compile-command
        (compilation-error-regexp-alist grep-regexp-alist)
        (compilation-directory default-directory)
        (gid-full-buffer-name (concat "*gid-" args "*")))
    (save-some-buffers (not compilation-ask-about-save) nil)
    (compilation-start (concat gid-command " " args) 'gid-mode
                       (when gid-use-search-in-buffer-name
                         (function (lambda (ignore)
                                     gid-full-buffer-name)))
                       (regexp-quote args))))

(provide 'idutils)