;; pp.el --- pretty printer for Emacs Lisp ;; Copyright (C) 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Randal Schwartz ;; 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, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ;;; Code: (defvar pp-escape-newlines t "*Value of print-escape-newlines used by pp-* functions.") (defun pp-to-string (object) "Return a string containing the pretty-printed representation of OBJECT, any Lisp object. Quoting characters are used when needed to make output that `read' can handle, whenever this is possible." (save-excursion (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer " pp-to-string")) (unwind-protect (progn (emacs-lisp-mode) (let ((print-escape-newlines pp-escape-newlines)) (prin1 object (current-buffer))) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (not (eobp)) ;; (message "%06d" (- (point-max) (point))) (cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (while (looking-at "\\s(") (forward-char 1))) ((and (looking-at "\\(quote[ \t]+\\)\\([^.)]\\)") (> (match-beginning 1) 1) (= ?\( (char-after (1- (match-beginning 1)))) ;; Make sure this is a two-element list. (save-excursion (goto-char (match-beginning 2)) (forward-sexp) ;; (looking-at "[ \t]*\)") ;; Avoid mucking with match-data; does this test work? (char-equal ?\) (char-after (point))))) ;; -1 gets the paren preceding the quote as well. (delete-region (1- (match-beginning 1)) (match-end 1)) (insert "'") (forward-sexp 1) (if (looking-at "[ \t]*\)") (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)) (error "Malformed quote")) (backward-sexp 1)) ((condition-case err-var (prog1 t (down-list 1)) (error nil)) (backward-char 1) (skip-chars-backward " \t") (delete-region (point) (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point))) (if (not (char-equal ?' (char-after (1- (point))))) (insert ?\n))) ((condition-case err-var (prog1 t (up-list 1)) (error nil)) (while (looking-at "\\s)") (forward-char 1)) (skip-chars-backward " \t") (delete-region (point) (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point))) (if (not (char-equal ?' (char-after (1- (point))))) (insert ?\n))) (t (goto-char (point-max))))) (goto-char (point-min)) (indent-sexp) (buffer-string)) (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))) (defun pp (object &optional stream) "Output the pretty-printed representation of OBJECT, any Lisp object. Quoting characters are printed when needed to make output that `read' can handle, whenever this is possible. Output stream is STREAM, or value of `standard-output' (which see)." (princ (pp-to-string object) (or stream standard-output))) (defun pp-eval-expression (expression) "Evaluate EXPRESSION and pretty-print value into a new display buffer. If the pretty-printed value fits on one line, the message line is used instead. Value is also consed on to front of variable values 's value." (interactive "xPp-eval: ") (setq values (cons (eval expression) values)) (let* ((old-show-hook (or (let ((sym (if (> (string-to-int emacs-version) 18) 'temp-buffer-show-function 'temp-buffer-show-hook))) (and (boundp 'sym) (symbol-value sym))) 'display-buffer)) (temp-buffer-show-hook (function (lambda (buf) (save-excursion (set-buffer buf) (goto-char (point-min)) (end-of-line 1) (if (or (< (1+ (point)) (point-max)) (>= (- (point) (point-min)) (screen-width))) (progn (goto-char (point-min)) ; expected by some hooks ... (funcall old-show-hook buf)) (message "%s" (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))) (delete-windows-on buf) ; no need to kill it ))))) (temp-buffer-show-function temp-buffer-show-hook)) ; emacs19 name (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Pp Eval Output*" (pp (car values))) (save-excursion (set-buffer "*Pp Eval Output*") (emacs-lisp-mode)))) (defun pp-eval-last-sexp (arg) "Run `pp-eval-expression' on sexp before point (which see). With argument, pretty-print output into current buffer. Ignores leading comment characters." (interactive "P") (let ((stab (syntax-table)) (pt (point)) start exp) (set-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table) (save-excursion (forward-sexp -1) ;; If first line is commented, ignore all leading comments: (if (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (looking-at "[ \t]*;")) (progn (setq exp (buffer-substring (point) pt)) (while (string-match "\n[ \t]*;+" exp start) (setq start (1+ (match-beginning 0)) exp (concat (substring exp 0 start) (substring exp (match-end 0))))) (setq exp (read exp))) (setq exp (read (current-buffer))))) (set-syntax-table stab) (if arg (insert (pp-to-string (eval exp))) (pp-eval-expression exp)))) ;;; Test cases for quote ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quote quote)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''((quote a) (quote b))) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''('a 'b)) ; same as above ;; (pp-eval-expression ''((quote (quote quote)) (quote quote))) ;; These do not satisfy the quote test. ;; (pp-eval-expression ''quote) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quote)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quote . quote)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quote a b)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(quotefoo)) ;; (pp-eval-expression ''(a b)) (provide 'pp) ; so (require 'pp) works ;;; pp.el ends here.