;;; novice.el --- handling of disabled commands ("novice mode") for Emacs. ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Keywords: internal, help ;; 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: ;; This mode provides a hook which is, by default, attached to various ;; putatively dangerous commands in a (probably futile) attempt to ;; prevent lusers from shooting themselves in the feet. ;;; Code: ;; This function is called (by autoloading) ;; to handle any disabled command. ;; The command is found in this-command ;; and the keys are returned by (this-command-keys). ;;;###autoload (defvar disabled-command-hook 'disabled-command-hook "Function to call to handle disabled commands. If nil, the feature is disabled, i.e., all commands work normally.") ;;;###autoload (defun disabled-command-hook (&rest ignore) (let (char) (save-window-excursion (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*" (let ((keys (this-command-keys))) (if (or (eq (aref keys 0) (if (stringp keys) (aref "\M-x" 0) ?\M-x)) (and (>= (length keys) 2) (eq (aref keys 0) meta-prefix-char) (eq (aref keys 1) ?x))) (princ "You have invoked the disabled command ") (princ "You have typed ") (princ (key-description keys)) (princ ", invoking disabled command "))) (princ this-command) (princ ":\n") ;; Print any special message saying why the command is disabled. (if (stringp (get this-command 'disabled)) (princ (get this-command 'disabled))) ;; Keep only the first paragraph of the documentation. (save-excursion (set-buffer "*Help*") (goto-char (point-max)) (save-excursion (princ (or (condition-case () (documentation this-command) (error nil)) "<< not documented >>"))) (if (search-forward "\n\n" nil t) (delete-region (1- (point)) (point-max)) (goto-char (point-max)))) (princ "\n\n") (princ "You can now type Space to try the command just this once, but leave it disabled, Y to try it and enable it (no questions if you use it again), ! to try it and enable all commands in this session, or N to do nothing (command remains disabled).") (save-excursion (set-buffer standard-output) (help-mode))) (message "Type y, n, ! or Space: ") (let ((cursor-in-echo-area t)) (while (not (memq (setq char (downcase (read-char))) '(?! ? ?y ?n))) (ding) (message "Please type y, n, ! or Space: ")))) (if (= char ?!) (setq disabled-command-hook nil)) (if (= char ?y) (if (and user-init-file (not (string= "" user-init-file)) (y-or-n-p "Enable command for future editing sessions also? ")) (enable-command this-command) (put this-command 'disabled nil))) (if (/= char ?n) (call-interactively this-command)))) ;;;###autoload (defun enable-command (command) "Allow COMMAND to be executed without special confirmation from now on. The user's .emacs file is altered so that this will apply to future sessions." (interactive "CEnable command: ") (put command 'disabled nil) (save-excursion (set-buffer (find-file-noselect (substitute-in-file-name user-init-file))) (goto-char (point-min)) (if (search-forward (concat "(put '" (symbol-name command) " ") nil t) (delete-region (progn (beginning-of-line) (point)) (progn (forward-line 1) (point)))) ;; Explicitly enable, in case this command is disabled by default ;; or in case the code we deleted was actually a comment. (goto-char (point-max)) (insert "\n(put '" (symbol-name command) " 'disabled nil)\n") (save-buffer))) ;;;###autoload (defun disable-command (command) "Require special confirmation to execute COMMAND from now on. The user's .emacs file is altered so that this will apply to future sessions." (interactive "CDisable command: ") (if (not (commandp command)) (error "Invalid command name `%s'" command)) (put command 'disabled t) (save-excursion (set-buffer (find-file-noselect (substitute-in-file-name user-init-file))) (goto-char (point-min)) (if (search-forward (concat "(put '" (symbol-name command) " ") nil t) (delete-region (progn (beginning-of-line) (point)) (progn (forward-line 1) (point)))) (goto-char (point-max)) (insert "\n(put '" (symbol-name command) " 'disabled t)\n") (save-buffer))) (provide 'novice) ;;; novice.el ends here