quickurl.el   [plain text]

;;; quickurl.el --- insert an URL based on text at point in buffer

;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
;;   2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Dave Pearson <davep@davep.org>
;; Maintainer: Dave Pearson <davep@davep.org>
;; Created: 1999-05-28
;; Keywords: hypermedia

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;;; Commentary:
;;
;; This package provides a simple method of inserting an URL based on the
;; text at point in the current buffer. This is part of an on-going effort
;; to increase the information I provide people while reducing the ammount
;; of typing I need to do. No-doubt there are undiscovered Emacs packages
;; out there that do all of this and do it better, feel free to point me to
;; them, in the mean time I'm having fun playing with Emacs Lisp.
;;
;; The URLs are stored in an external file as a list of either cons cells,
;; or lists. A cons cell entry looks like this:
;;
;;    (<Lookup> . <URL>)
;;
;; where <Lookup> is a string that acts as the keyword lookup and <URL> is
;; the URL associated with it. An example might be:
;;
;;    ("GNU" . "http://www.gnu.org/")
;;
;; A list entry looks like:
;;
;;    (<Lookup> <URL> <Comment>)
;;
;; where <Lookup> and <URL> are the same as with the cons cell and <Comment>
;; is any text you like that describes the URL. This description will be
;; used when presenting a list of URLS using `quickurl-list'. An example
;; might be:
;;
;;    ("FSF" "http://www.fsf.org/" "The Free Software Foundation")
;;
;; Given the above, your quickurl file might look like:
;;
;; (("GNU"    . "http://www.gnu.org/")
;;  ("FSF"      "http://www.fsf.org/" "The Free Software Foundation")
;;  ("emacs"  . "http://www.emacs.org/")
;;  ("davep"    "http://www.davep.org/" "Dave's homepage"))
;;
;; In case you're wondering about the mixture of cons cells and lists,
;; quickurl started life using just the cons cells, there were no comments.
;; URL comments are a later addition and so there is a mixture to keep
;; backward compatibility with existing URL lists.
;;
;; The name and location of the file is up to you, the default name used by
;; `quickurl' is stored in `quickurl-url-file'.
;;
;; quickurl is always available from:
;;
;;   <URL:http://www.davep.org/emacs/quickurl.el>

;;; TODO:
;;
;; o The quickurl-browse-url* functions pretty much duplicate their non
;;   browsing friends. It would feel better if a more generic solution could
;;   be found.

;;; Code:

;; Things we need:

(eval-when-compile
  (require 'cl))
(require 'thingatpt)
(require 'pp)
(require 'browse-url)

;; Attempt to handle older/other emacs.
(eval-and-compile
  ;; If customize isn't available just use defvar instead.
  (unless (fboundp 'defgroup)
    (defmacro defgroup  (&rest rest) nil)
    (defmacro defcustom (symbol init docstring &rest rest)
      `(defvar ,symbol ,init ,docstring))))

;; Customize options.

(defgroup quickurl nil
  "Insert an URL based on text at point in buffer."
  :version "21.1"
  :group  'abbrev
  :prefix "quickurl-")

(defcustom quickurl-url-file (convert-standard-filename "~/.quickurls")
  "*File that contains the URL list."
  :type  'file
  :group 'quickurl)

(defcustom quickurl-format-function (lambda (url) (format "<URL:%s>" (quickurl-url-url url)))
  "*Function to format the URL before insertion into the current buffer."
  :type  'function
  :group 'quickurl)

(defcustom quickurl-sort-function (lambda (list)
                                    (sort list
                                          (lambda (x y)
                                            (string<
                                             (downcase (quickurl-url-description x))
                                             (downcase (quickurl-url-description y))))))
  "*Function to sort the URL list."
  :type  'function
  :group 'quickurl)

(defcustom quickurl-grab-lookup-function #'current-word
  "*Function to grab the thing to lookup."
  :type  'function
  :group 'quickurl)

(defcustom quickurl-assoc-function #'assoc-ignore-case
  "*Function to use for alist lookup into `quickurl-urls'."
  :type  'function
  :group 'quickurl)

(defcustom quickurl-completion-ignore-case t
  "*Should `quickurl-ask' ignore case when doing the input lookup?"
  :type  'boolean
  :group 'quickurl)

(defcustom quickurl-prefix ";; -*- lisp -*-\n\n"
  "*Text to write to `quickurl-url-file' before writing the URL list."
  :type  'string
  :group 'quickurl)

(defcustom quickurl-postfix ""
  "*Text to write to `quickurl-url-file' after writing the URL list.

See the constant `quickurl-reread-hook-postfix' for some example text that
could be used here."
  :type  'string
  :group 'quickurl)

(defcustom quickurl-list-mode-hook nil
  "*Hooks for `quickurl-list-mode'."
  :type  'hook
  :group 'quickurl)

;; Constants.

;;;###autoload
(defconst quickurl-reread-hook-postfix
    "
;; Local Variables:
;; eval: (progn (require 'quickurl) (add-hook 'local-write-file-hooks (lambda () (quickurl-read) nil)))
;; End:
"
  "Example `quickurl-postfix' text that adds a local variable to the
`quickurl-url-file' so that if you edit it by hand it will ensure that
`quickurl-urls' is updated with the new URL list.

To make use of this do something like:

  (setq quickurl-postfix quickurl-reread-hook-postfix)

in your ~/.emacs (after loading/requiring quickurl).")

;; Non-customize variables.

(defvar quickurl-urls nil
  "URL alist for use with `quickurl' and `quickurl-ask'.")

(defvar quickurl-list-mode-map nil
  "Local keymap for a `quickurl-list-mode' buffer.")

(defvar quickurl-list-buffer-name "*quickurl-list*"
  "Name for the URL listinig buffer.")

(defvar quickurl-list-last-buffer nil
  "`current-buffer' when `quickurl-list' was called.")

;; Functions for working with an URL entry.

(defun quickurl-url-commented-p (url)
  "Does the URL have a comment?"
  (listp (cdr url)))

(defun quickurl-make-url (keyword url &optional comment)
  "Create an URL from KEYWORD, URL and (optionaly) COMMENT."
  (if (and comment (not (zerop (length comment))))
      (list keyword url comment)
    (cons keyword url)))

(defun quickurl-url-keyword (url)
  "Return the keyword for the URL.

Note that this function is a setfable place."
  (car url))

(defsetf quickurl-url-keyword (url) (store)
  `(setf (car ,url) ,store))

(defun quickurl-url-url (url)
  "Return the actual URL of the URL.

Note that this function is a setfable place."
  (if (quickurl-url-commented-p url)
      (cadr url)
    (cdr url)))

(defsetf quickurl-url-url (url) (store)
  `
  (if (quickurl-url-commented-p ,url)
      (setf (cadr ,url) ,store)
    (setf (cdr ,url) ,store)))

(defun quickurl-url-comment (url)
  "Get the comment from an URL.

If the URL has no comment an empty string is returned. Also note that this
function is a setfable place."
  (if (quickurl-url-commented-p url)
      (nth 2 url)
    ""))

(defsetf quickurl-url-comment (url) (store)
  `
  (if (quickurl-url-commented-p ,url)
      (if (zerop (length ,store))
          (setf (cdr ,url) (cadr ,url))
        (setf (nth 2 ,url) ,store))
    (unless (zerop (length ,store))
      (setf (cdr ,url) (list (cdr ,url) ,store)))))

(defun quickurl-url-description (url)
  "Return a description for the URL.

If the URL has a comment then this is returned, otherwise the keyword is
returned."
  (let ((desc (quickurl-url-comment url)))
    (if (zerop (length desc))
        (quickurl-url-keyword url)
      desc)))

;; Main code:

(defun* quickurl-read (&optional buffer)
  "`read' the URL list from BUFFER into `quickurl-urls'.

BUFFER, if nil, defaults to current buffer.
Note that this function moves point to `point-min' before doing the `read'
It also restores point after the `read'."
  (save-excursion
    (setf (point) (point-min))
    (setq quickurl-urls (funcall quickurl-sort-function
                                 (read (or buffer (current-buffer)))))))

(defun quickurl-load-urls ()
  "Load the contents of `quickurl-url-file' into `quickurl-urls'."
  (when (file-exists-p quickurl-url-file)
    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert-file-contents quickurl-url-file)
      (quickurl-read))))

(defun quickurl-save-urls ()
  "Save the contents of `quickurl-urls' to `quickurl-url-file'."
  (with-temp-buffer
    (let ((standard-output (current-buffer)))
      (princ quickurl-prefix)
      (pp quickurl-urls)
      (princ quickurl-postfix)
      (write-region (point-min) (point-max) quickurl-url-file nil 0))))

(defun quickurl-find-url (lookup)
  "Return URL associated with key LOOKUP.

The lookup is done by looking in the alist `quickurl-urls' and the `cons'
for the URL is returned. The actual method used to look into the alist
depends on the setting of the variable `quickurl-assoc-function'."
  (funcall quickurl-assoc-function lookup quickurl-urls))

(defun quickurl-insert (url &optional silent)
  "Insert URL, formatted using `quickurl-format-function'.

Also display a `message' saying what the URL was unless SILENT is non-nil."
  (insert (funcall quickurl-format-function url))
  (unless silent
    (message "Found %s" (quickurl-url-url url))))

;;;###autoload
(defun* quickurl (&optional lookup)
  "Insert an URL based on LOOKUP.

If not supplied LOOKUP is taken to be the word at point in the current
buffer, this default action can be modifed via
`quickurl-grab-lookup-function'."
  (interactive)
  (when (or lookup
            (setq lookup (funcall quickurl-grab-lookup-function)))
    (quickurl-load-urls)
    (let ((url (quickurl-find-url lookup)))
      (if (null url)
          (error "No URL associated with \"%s\"" lookup)
        (when (looking-at "\\w")
          (skip-syntax-forward "\\w"))
        (insert " ")
        (quickurl-insert url)))))

;;;###autoload
(defun quickurl-ask (lookup)
  "Insert an URL, with `completing-read' prompt, based on LOOKUP."
  (interactive
   (list
    (progn
      (quickurl-load-urls)
      (let ((completion-ignore-case quickurl-completion-ignore-case))
        (completing-read "Lookup: " quickurl-urls nil t)))))
  (let ((url (quickurl-find-url lookup)))
    (when url
      (quickurl-insert url))))

(defun quickurl-grab-url ()
  "Attempt to grab a word/url pair from point in the current buffer.

Point should be somewhere on the URL and the word is taken to be the thing
that is returned from calling `quickurl-grab-lookup-function' once a
`backward-word' has been issued at the start of the URL.

It is assumed that the URL is either \"unguarded\" or is wrapped inside an
<URL:...> wrapper."
  (let ((url (thing-at-point 'url)))
    (when url
      (save-excursion
        (beginning-of-thing 'url)
        ;; `beginning-of-thing' doesn't take you to the start of a marked-up
        ;; URL, only to the start of the URL within the "markup". So, we
        ;; need to do a little more work to get to where we want to be.
        (when (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp)
          (search-backward "<URL:"))
        (backward-word 1)
        (let ((word (funcall quickurl-grab-lookup-function)))
          (when word
            (quickurl-make-url
             ;; The grab function may return the word with properties. I don't
             ;; want the properties. I couldn't find a method of stripping
             ;; them from a "string" so this will have to do. If you know of
             ;; a better method of doing this I'd love to know.
             (with-temp-buffer
               (insert word)
               (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)))
             url)))))))

;;;###autoload
(defun quickurl-add-url (word url comment)
  "Allow the user to interactively add a new URL associated with WORD.

See `quickurl-grab-url' for details on how the default word/url combination
is decided."
  (interactive (let ((word-url (quickurl-grab-url)))
                 (list (read-string "Word: "    (quickurl-url-keyword word-url))
                       (read-string "URL: "     (quickurl-url-url word-url))
                       (read-string "Comment: " (quickurl-url-comment word-url)))))
  (if (zerop (length word))
      (error "You must specify a WORD for lookup")
    (quickurl-load-urls)
    (let* ((current-url (quickurl-find-url word))
           (add-it      (if current-url
                            (if (interactive-p)
                                (y-or-n-p (format "\"%s\" exists, replace URL? " word))
                              t)
                          t)))
      (when add-it
        (if current-url
            (progn
              (setf (quickurl-url-url current-url) url)
              (setf (quickurl-url-comment current-url) comment))
          (push (quickurl-make-url word url comment) quickurl-urls))
        (setq quickurl-urls (funcall quickurl-sort-function quickurl-urls))
        (quickurl-save-urls)
        (when (get-buffer quickurl-list-buffer-name)
          (quickurl-list-populate-buffer))
        (when (interactive-p)
          (message "Added %s" url))))))

;;;###autoload
(defun quickurl-browse-url (&optional lookup)
  "Browse the URL associated with LOOKUP.

If not supplied LOOKUP is taken to be the word at point in the
current buffer, this default action can be modifed via
`quickurl-grab-lookup-function'."
  (interactive)
  (when (or lookup
            (setq lookup (funcall quickurl-grab-lookup-function)))
    (quickurl-load-urls)
    (let ((url (quickurl-find-url lookup)))
      (if url
          (browse-url (quickurl-url-url url))
        (error "No URL associated with \"%s\"" lookup)))))

;;;###autoload
(defun quickurl-browse-url-ask (lookup)
  "Browse the URL, with `completing-read' prompt, associated with LOOKUP."
  (interactive (list
                (progn
                  (quickurl-load-urls)
                  (completing-read "Browse: " quickurl-urls nil t))))
  (let ((url (quickurl-find-url lookup)))
    (when url
      (browse-url (quickurl-url-url url)))))

;;;###autoload
(defun quickurl-edit-urls ()
  "Pull `quickurl-url-file' into a buffer for hand editing."
  (interactive)
  (find-file quickurl-url-file))

;; quickurl-list mode.

(unless quickurl-list-mode-map
  (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
    (suppress-keymap map t)
    (define-key map "a"           #'quickurl-list-add-url)
    (define-key map [(control m)] #'quickurl-list-insert-url)
    (define-key map "u"           #'quickurl-list-insert-naked-url)
    (define-key map " "           #'quickurl-list-insert-with-lookup)
    (define-key map "l"           #'quickurl-list-insert-lookup)
    (define-key map "d"           #'quickurl-list-insert-with-desc)
    (define-key map [(control g)] #'quickurl-list-quit)
    (define-key map "q"           #'quickurl-list-quit)
    (define-key map [mouse-2]     #'quickurl-list-mouse-select)
    (define-key map "?"           #'describe-mode)
    (setq quickurl-list-mode-map map)))

(put 'quickurl-list-mode 'mode-class 'special)

;;;###autoload
(defun quickurl-list-mode ()
  "A mode for browsing the quickurl URL list.

The key bindings for `quickurl-list-mode' are:

\\{quickurl-list-mode-map}"
  (interactive)
  (kill-all-local-variables)
  (use-local-map quickurl-list-mode-map)
  (setq major-mode 'quickurl-list-mode
        mode-name  "quickurl list")
  (run-mode-hooks 'quickurl-list-mode-hook)
  (setq buffer-read-only t
        truncate-lines   t))

;;;###autoload
(defun quickurl-list ()
  "Display `quickurl-list' as a formatted list using `quickurl-list-mode'."
  (interactive)
  (quickurl-load-urls)
  (unless (string= (buffer-name) quickurl-list-buffer-name)
    (setq quickurl-list-last-buffer (current-buffer)))
  (pop-to-buffer quickurl-list-buffer-name)
  (quickurl-list-populate-buffer)
  (quickurl-list-mode))

(defun quickurl-list-populate-buffer ()
  "Populate the `quickurl-list' buffer."
  (with-current-buffer (get-buffer quickurl-list-buffer-name)
    (let ((buffer-read-only nil)
          (fmt (format "%%-%ds %%s\n"
                       (apply #'max (or (loop for url in quickurl-urls
                                              collect (length (quickurl-url-description url)))
                                        (list 20))))))
      (setf (buffer-string) "")
      (loop for url in quickurl-urls
            do (let ((start (point)))
                 (insert (format fmt (quickurl-url-description url)
                                 (quickurl-url-url url)))
                 (add-text-properties start (1- (point))
                                    '(mouse-face highlight
				      help-echo "mouse-2: insert this URL"))))
      (setf (point) (point-min)))))

(defun quickurl-list-add-url (word url comment)
  "Wrapper for `quickurl-add-url' that doesn't guess the parameters."
  (interactive "sWord: \nsURL: \nsComment: ")
  (quickurl-add-url word url comment))

(defun quickurl-list-quit ()
  "Kill the buffer named `quickurl-list-buffer-name'."
  (interactive)
  (kill-buffer quickurl-list-buffer-name)
  (switch-to-buffer quickurl-list-last-buffer)
  (delete-other-windows))

(defun quickurl-list-mouse-select (event)
  "Select the URL under the mouse click."
  (interactive "e")
  (setf (point) (posn-point (event-end event)))
  (quickurl-list-insert-url))

(defun quickurl-list-insert (type)
  "Insert the URL under cursor into `quickurl-list-last-buffer'.
TYPE dictates what will be inserted, options are:
  `url'         - Insert the URL as <URL:url>
  `naked-url'   - Insert the URL with no formatting
  `with-lookup' - Insert \"lookup <URL:url>\"
  `with-desc'   - Insert \"description <URL:url>\"
  `lookup'      - Insert the lookup for that URL"
  (let ((url (nth (save-excursion
                    (beginning-of-line)
                    (count-lines (point-min) (point)))
                  quickurl-urls)))
    (if url
        (with-current-buffer quickurl-list-last-buffer
          (insert
           (case type
             ('url         (funcall quickurl-format-function url))
             ('naked-url   (quickurl-url-url url))
             ('with-lookup (format "%s <URL:%s>"
                                   (quickurl-url-keyword url)
                                   (quickurl-url-url url)))
             ('with-desc   (format "%S <URL:%s>"
                                   (quickurl-url-description url)
                                   (quickurl-url-url url)))
             ('lookup      (quickurl-url-keyword url)))))
      (error "No URL details on that line"))
    url))

(defmacro quickurl-list-make-inserter (type)
  "Macro to make a key-response function for use in `quickurl-list-mode-map'."
  `(defun ,(intern (format "quickurl-list-insert-%S" type)) ()
    ,(format "Insert the result of calling `quickurl-list-insert' with `%s'." type)
    (interactive)
    (when (quickurl-list-insert ',type)
      (quickurl-list-quit))))

(quickurl-list-make-inserter url)
(quickurl-list-make-inserter naked-url)
(quickurl-list-make-inserter with-lookup)
(quickurl-list-make-inserter with-desc)
(quickurl-list-make-inserter lookup)

(provide 'quickurl)

;;; arch-tag: a8183ea5-80c2-4082-a7d1-b0fdf2da467e
;;; quickurl.el ends here