;; Handling of disabled commands ("novice mode") for Emacs. ;; Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman. ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor ;; accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it ;; or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, ;; unless he says so in writing. Refer to the GNU Emacs General Public ;; License for full details. ;; Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute ;; GNU Emacs, but only under the conditions described in the ;; GNU Emacs General Public License. A copy of this license is ;; supposed to have been given to you along with GNU Emacs so you ;; can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a ;; file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice ;; and this notice must be preserved on all copies. ;; This function is called (autoloaded) ;; to handle any disabled command. ;; The command is found in this-command ;; and the keys are returned by (this-command-keys). (defun disabled-command-hook (&rest ignore) (let (char) (save-window-excursion (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*" (princ "You have typed ") (princ (key-description (this-command-keys))) (princ ", invoking disabled command ") (princ this-command) (princ ":\n") (princ (or (documentation this-command) "<< not documented >>")) (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), N to do nothing (command remains disabled).")) (message "Type y, n or Space: ") (while (not (memq (setq char (downcase (read-char))) '(? ?y ?n))) (ding) (message "Please type y, n or Space: "))) (if (= char ?y) (if (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)))) (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 "~/.emacs"))) (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))) ;; Must have been disabled by default. (goto-char (point-max)) (insert "\n(put '" (symbol-name command) " 'disabled nil)\n")) (setq foo (buffer-modified-p)) (save-buffer))) (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: ") (put command 'disabled t) (save-excursion (set-buffer (find-file-noselect (substitute-in-file-name "~/.emacs"))) (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 "(put '" (symbol-name command) " 'disabled t)\n") (save-buffer)))