;;; derived.el --- allow inheritance of major modes -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; (formerly mode-clone.el) ;; Copyright (C) 1993-1994, 1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, ;; Inc. ;; Author: David Megginson (dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca) ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org ;; Keywords: extensions ;; Package: emacs ;; 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 3 of the License, 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. If not, see . ;;; Commentary: ;; GNU Emacs is already, in a sense, object oriented -- each object ;; (buffer) belongs to a class (major mode), and that class defines ;; the relationship between messages (input events) and methods ;; (commands) by means of a keymap. ;; ;; The only thing missing is a good scheme of inheritance. It is ;; possible to simulate a single level of inheritance with generous ;; use of hooks and a bit of work -- sgml-mode, for example, also runs ;; the hooks for text-mode, and keymaps can inherit from other keymaps ;; -- but generally, each major mode ends up reinventing the wheel. ;; Ideally, someone should redesign all of Emacs's major modes to ;; follow a more conventional object-oriented system: when defining a ;; new major mode, the user should need only to name the existing mode ;; it is most similar to, then list the (few) differences. ;; ;; In the mean time, this package offers most of the advantages of ;; full inheritance with the existing major modes. The macro ;; `define-derived-mode' allows the user to make a variant of an existing ;; major mode, with its own keymap. The new mode will inherit the key ;; bindings of its parent, and will, in fact, run its parent first ;; every time it is called. For example, the commands ;; ;; (define-derived-mode hypertext-mode text-mode "Hypertext" ;; "Major mode for hypertext.\n\n\\{hypertext-mode-map}" ;; (setq case-fold-search nil)) ;; ;; (define-key hypertext-mode-map [down-mouse-3] 'do-hyper-link) ;; ;; will create a function `hypertext-mode' with its own (sparse) ;; keymap `hypertext-mode-map.' The command M-x hypertext-mode will ;; perform the following actions: ;; ;; - run the command (text-mode) to get its default setup ;; - replace the current keymap with 'hypertext-mode-map,' which will ;; inherit from 'text-mode-map'. ;; - replace the current syntax table with ;; 'hypertext-mode-syntax-table', which will borrow its defaults ;; from the current text-mode-syntax-table. ;; - replace the current abbrev table with ;; 'hypertext-mode-abbrev-table', which will borrow its defaults ;; from the current text-mode-abbrev table ;; - change the mode line to read "Hypertext" ;; - assign the value 'hypertext-mode' to the 'major-mode' variable ;; - run the body of commands provided in the macro -- in this case, ;; set the local variable `case-fold-search' to nil. ;; ;; The advantages of this system are threefold. First, text mode is ;; untouched -- if you had added the new keystroke to `text-mode-map,' ;; possibly using hooks, you would have added it to all text buffers ;; -- here, it appears only in hypertext buffers, where it makes ;; sense. Second, it is possible to build even further, and make ;; a derived mode from a derived mode. The commands ;; ;; (define-derived-mode html-mode hypertext-mode "HTML") ;; [various key definitions] ;; ;; will add a new major mode for HTML with very little fuss. ;; ;; Note also the function `derived-mode-p' which can tell if the current ;; mode derives from another. In a hypertext-mode, buffer, for example, ;; (derived-mode-p 'text-mode) would return non-nil. This should always ;; be used in place of (eq major-mode 'text-mode). ;;; Code: ;;; PRIVATE: defsubst must be defined before they are first used (defsubst derived-mode-hook-name (mode) "Construct a mode-hook name based on a MODE name." (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-hook"))) (defsubst derived-mode-map-name (mode) "Construct a map name based on a MODE name." (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-map"))) (defsubst derived-mode-syntax-table-name (mode) "Construct a syntax-table name based on a MODE name." (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-syntax-table"))) (defsubst derived-mode-abbrev-table-name (mode) "Construct an abbrev-table name based on a MODE name." (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-abbrev-table"))) ;; PUBLIC: define a new major mode which inherits from an existing one. ;;;###autoload (defmacro define-derived-mode (child parent name &optional docstring &rest body) "Create a new mode CHILD which is a variant of an existing mode PARENT. The arguments are as follows: CHILD: the name of the command for the derived mode. PARENT: the name of the command for the parent mode (e.g. `text-mode') or nil if there is no parent. NAME: a string which will appear in the status line (e.g. \"Hypertext\") DOCSTRING: an optional documentation string--if you do not supply one, the function will attempt to invent something useful. KEYWORD-ARGS: optional arguments in the form of pairs of keyword and value. The following keyword arguments are currently supported: :group GROUP Declare the customization group that corresponds to this mode. The command `customize-mode' uses this. :syntax-table TABLE Use TABLE instead of the default (CHILD-syntax-table). A nil value means to simply use the same syntax-table as the parent. :abbrev-table TABLE Use TABLE instead of the default (CHILD-abbrev-table). A nil value means to simply use the same abbrev-table as the parent. :after-hook FORM A single lisp form which is evaluated after the mode hooks have been run. It should not be quoted. BODY: forms to execute just before running the hooks for the new mode. Do not use `interactive' here. Here is how you could define LaTeX-Thesis mode as a variant of LaTeX mode: (define-derived-mode LaTeX-thesis-mode LaTeX-mode \"LaTeX-Thesis\") You could then make new key bindings for `LaTeX-thesis-mode-map' without changing regular LaTeX mode. In this example, BODY is empty, and DOCSTRING is generated by default. As a more complex example, the following command uses `sgml-mode' as the parent, and then sets the variable `case-fold-search' to nil: (define-derived-mode article-mode sgml-mode \"Article\" \"Major mode for editing technical articles.\" (setq case-fold-search nil)) Note that if the documentation string had been left out, it would have been generated automatically, with a reference to the keymap. The new mode runs the hook constructed by the function `derived-mode-hook-name'. See Info node `(elisp)Derived Modes' for more details. \(fn CHILD PARENT NAME [DOCSTRING] [KEYWORD-ARGS...] &rest BODY)" (declare (debug (&define name symbolp sexp [&optional stringp] [&rest keywordp sexp] def-body)) (doc-string 4) ;; Ask not what ;;(indent 3) ;; can do for you, ask what it can do to others. IOW, the ;; missing of indentation setting here is the indentation ;; setting and not an oversight. ) (when (and docstring (not (stringp docstring))) ;; Some trickiness, since what appears to be the docstring may really be ;; the first element of the body. (push docstring body) (setq docstring nil)) (when (eq parent 'fundamental-mode) (setq parent nil)) (let ((map (derived-mode-map-name child)) (syntax (derived-mode-syntax-table-name child)) (abbrev (derived-mode-abbrev-table-name child)) (declare-abbrev t) (declare-syntax t) (hook (derived-mode-hook-name child)) (group nil) (after-hook nil)) ;; Process the keyword args. (while (keywordp (car body)) (pcase (pop body) (:group (setq group (pop body))) (:abbrev-table (setq abbrev (pop body)) (setq declare-abbrev nil)) (:syntax-table (setq syntax (pop body)) (setq declare-syntax nil)) (:after-hook (setq after-hook (pop body))) (_ (pop body)))) (setq docstring (derived-mode-make-docstring parent child docstring syntax abbrev)) `(progn (defvar ,hook nil) (unless (get ',hook 'variable-documentation) (put ',hook 'variable-documentation ,(format "Hook run after entering %s mode. No problems result if this variable is not bound. `add-hook' automatically binds it. (This is true for all hook variables.)" name))) (unless (boundp ',map) (put ',map 'definition-name ',child)) (with-no-warnings (defvar ,map (make-sparse-keymap))) (unless (get ',map 'variable-documentation) (put ',map 'variable-documentation (purecopy ,(format "Keymap for `%s'." child)))) ,(if declare-syntax `(progn (defvar ,syntax) (unless (boundp ',syntax) (put ',syntax 'definition-name ',child) (defvar ,syntax (make-syntax-table))) (unless (get ',syntax 'variable-documentation) (put ',syntax 'variable-documentation (purecopy ,(format "Syntax table for `%s'." child)))))) ,(if declare-abbrev `(progn (defvar ,abbrev) (unless (boundp ',abbrev) (put ',abbrev 'definition-name ',child) (defvar ,abbrev (progn (define-abbrev-table ',abbrev nil) ,abbrev))) (unless (get ',abbrev 'variable-documentation) (put ',abbrev 'variable-documentation (purecopy ,(format "Abbrev table for `%s'." child)))))) (put ',child 'derived-mode-parent ',parent) ,(if group `(put ',child 'custom-mode-group ,group)) (defun ,child () ,docstring (interactive) ; Run the parent. (delay-mode-hooks (,(or parent 'kill-all-local-variables)) ; Identify the child mode. (setq major-mode (quote ,child)) (setq mode-name ,name) ; Identify special modes. ,(when parent `(progn (if (get (quote ,parent) 'mode-class) (put (quote ,child) 'mode-class (get (quote ,parent) 'mode-class))) ; Set up maps and tables. (unless (keymap-parent ,map) ;; It would probably be better to set the keymap's parent ;; at the toplevel rather than inside the mode function, ;; but this is not easy for at least the following reasons: ;; - the parent (and its keymap) may not yet be loaded. ;; - the parent's keymap name may be called something else ;; than -mode-map. (set-keymap-parent ,map (current-local-map))) ,(when declare-syntax `(let ((parent (char-table-parent ,syntax))) (unless (and parent (not (eq parent (standard-syntax-table)))) (set-char-table-parent ,syntax (syntax-table))))) ,(when declare-abbrev `(unless (or (abbrev-table-get ,abbrev :parents) ;; This can happen if the major mode defines ;; the abbrev-table to be its parent's. (eq ,abbrev local-abbrev-table)) (abbrev-table-put ,abbrev :parents (list local-abbrev-table)))))) (use-local-map ,map) ,(when syntax `(set-syntax-table ,syntax)) ,(when abbrev `(setq local-abbrev-table ,abbrev)) ; Splice in the body (if any). ,@body ) ,@(when after-hook `((push (lambda () ,after-hook) delayed-after-hook-functions))) ;; Run the hooks (and delayed-after-hook-functions), if any. (run-mode-hooks ',hook))))) ;;; PRIVATE (defun derived-mode-make-docstring (parent child &optional docstring syntax abbrev) "Construct a docstring for a new mode if none is provided." (let ((map (derived-mode-map-name child)) (hook (derived-mode-hook-name child))) (unless (stringp docstring) ;; Use a default docstring. (setq docstring (if (null parent) (concat "Major-mode.\n" (internal--format-docstring-line "Uses keymap `%s'%s%s." map (if abbrev (format "%s abbrev table `%s'" (if syntax "," " and") abbrev) "") (if syntax (format " and syntax-table `%s'" syntax) ""))) (format "Major mode derived from `%s' by `define-derived-mode'. It inherits all of the parent's attributes, but has its own keymap%s: `%s'%s which more-or-less shadow%s %s's corresponding table%s." parent (cond ((and abbrev syntax) ",\nabbrev table and syntax table") (abbrev "\nand abbrev table") (syntax "\nand syntax table") (t "")) map (cond ((and abbrev syntax) (format ", `%s' and `%s'" abbrev syntax)) ((or abbrev syntax) (format " and `%s'" (or abbrev syntax))) (t "")) (if (or abbrev syntax) "" "s") parent (if (or abbrev syntax) "s" ""))))) (unless (string-match (regexp-quote (symbol-name hook)) docstring) ;; Make sure the docstring mentions the mode's hook. (setq docstring (concat docstring "\n\n" (internal--format-docstring-line "%s%s%s" (if (null parent) "This mode " (concat "In addition to any hooks its parent mode " (if (string-match (format "[`‘]%s['’]" (regexp-quote (symbol-name parent))) docstring) nil (format "`%s' " parent)) "might have run, this mode ")) (format "runs the hook `%s'" hook) ", as the final or penultimate step during initialization.")))) (unless (string-match "\\\\[{[]" docstring) ;; And don't forget to put the mode's keymap. (setq docstring (concat docstring "\n\n\\{" (symbol-name map) "}"))) docstring)) ;;; OBSOLETE ;; The functions below are only provided for backward compatibility with ;; code byte-compiled with versions of derived.el prior to Emacs-21. (defsubst derived-mode-setup-function-name (mode) "Construct a setup-function name based on a MODE name." (declare (obsolete nil "28.1")) (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-setup"))) ;; Utility functions for defining a derived mode. ;;;###autoload (defun derived-mode-init-mode-variables (mode) "Initialize variables for a new MODE. Right now, if they don't already exist, set up a blank keymap, an empty syntax table, and an empty abbrev table -- these will be merged the first time the mode is used." (if (boundp (derived-mode-map-name mode)) t (eval `(defvar ,(derived-mode-map-name mode) (make-sparse-keymap) ,(format "Keymap for %s." mode))) (put (derived-mode-map-name mode) 'derived-mode-unmerged t)) (if (boundp (derived-mode-syntax-table-name mode)) t (eval `(defvar ,(derived-mode-syntax-table-name mode) ;; Make a syntax table which doesn't specify anything ;; for any char. Valid data will be merged in by ;; derived-mode-merge-syntax-tables. (make-char-table 'syntax-table nil) ,(format "Syntax table for %s." mode))) (put (derived-mode-syntax-table-name mode) 'derived-mode-unmerged t)) (if (boundp (derived-mode-abbrev-table-name mode)) t (eval `(defvar ,(derived-mode-abbrev-table-name mode) (progn (define-abbrev-table (derived-mode-abbrev-table-name mode) nil) (make-abbrev-table)) ,(format "Abbrev table for %s." mode))))) ;; Utility functions for running a derived mode. (defun derived-mode-set-keymap (mode) "Set the keymap of the new MODE, maybe merging with the parent." (let* ((map-name (derived-mode-map-name mode)) (new-map (eval map-name)) (old-map (current-local-map))) (and old-map (get map-name 'derived-mode-unmerged) (derived-mode-merge-keymaps old-map new-map)) (put map-name 'derived-mode-unmerged nil) (use-local-map new-map))) (defun derived-mode-set-syntax-table (mode) "Set the syntax table of the new MODE, maybe merging with the parent." (let* ((table-name (derived-mode-syntax-table-name mode)) (old-table (syntax-table)) (new-table (eval table-name))) (if (get table-name 'derived-mode-unmerged) (derived-mode-merge-syntax-tables old-table new-table)) (put table-name 'derived-mode-unmerged nil) (set-syntax-table new-table))) (defun derived-mode-set-abbrev-table (mode) "Set the abbrev table for MODE if it exists. Always merge its parent into it, since the merge is non-destructive." (let* ((table-name (derived-mode-abbrev-table-name mode)) (old-table local-abbrev-table) (new-table (eval table-name))) (derived-mode-merge-abbrev-tables old-table new-table) (setq local-abbrev-table new-table))) (defun derived-mode-run-hooks (mode) "Run the mode hook for MODE." (let ((hooks-name (derived-mode-hook-name mode))) (if (boundp hooks-name) (run-hooks hooks-name)))) ;; Functions to merge maps and tables. (defun derived-mode-merge-keymaps (old new) "Merge an OLD keymap into a NEW one. The old keymap is set to be the last cdr of the new one, so that there will be automatic inheritance." ;; ?? Can this just use `set-keymap-parent'? (let ((tail new)) ;; Scan the NEW map for prefix keys. (while (consp tail) (and (consp (car tail)) (let* ((key (vector (car (car tail)))) (subnew (lookup-key new key)) (subold (lookup-key old key))) ;; If KEY is a prefix key in both OLD and NEW, merge them. (and (keymapp subnew) (keymapp subold) (derived-mode-merge-keymaps subold subnew)))) (and (vectorp (car tail)) ;; Search a vector of ASCII char bindings for prefix keys. (let ((i (1- (length (car tail))))) (while (>= i 0) (let* ((key (vector i)) (subnew (lookup-key new key)) (subold (lookup-key old key))) ;; If KEY is a prefix key in both OLD and NEW, merge them. (and (keymapp subnew) (keymapp subold) (derived-mode-merge-keymaps subold subnew))) (setq i (1- i))))) (setq tail (cdr tail)))) (setcdr (nthcdr (1- (length new)) new) old)) (defun derived-mode-merge-syntax-tables (old new) "Merge an OLD syntax table into a NEW one. Where the new table already has an entry, nothing is copied from the old one." (set-char-table-parent new old)) ;; Merge an old abbrev table into a new one. ;; This function requires internal knowledge of how abbrev tables work, ;; presuming that they are obarrays with the abbrev as the symbol, the expansion ;; as the value of the symbol, and the hook as the function definition. (defun derived-mode-merge-abbrev-tables (old new) (if old (mapatoms (lambda (symbol) (or (intern-soft (symbol-name symbol) new) (define-abbrev new (symbol-name symbol) (symbol-value symbol) (symbol-function symbol)))) old))) (provide 'derived) ;;; derived.el ends here