;;; buffer.el --- Working with Emacs buffers -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Author: William Carroll ;;; Commentary: ;; Utilities for CRUDing buffers in Emacs. ;; ;; Many of these functions may seem unnecessary especially when you consider ;; there implementations. In general I believe that Elisp suffers from a ;; library disorganization problem. Providing simple wrapper functions that ;; rename functions or reorder parameters is worth the effort in my opinion if ;; it improves discoverability (via intuition) and improve composability. ;; ;; I support three ways for switching between what I'm calling "source code ;; buffers": ;; 1. Toggling previous: ;; 2. Using `ivy-read': b ;; TODO: These obscure evil KBDs. Maybe a hydra definition would be best? ;; 3. Cycling (forwards/backwards): C-f, C-b ;;; Code: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Dependencies ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (require 'prelude) (require 'maybe) (require 'set) (require 'cycle) (require 'struct) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Library ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defconst buffer/enable-tests? t "When t, run the test suite.") (defconst buffer/install-kbds? t "When t, install the keybindings defined herein.") (defconst buffer/source-code-blacklist (set/new 'dired-mode 'erc-mode 'vterm-mode 'magit-status-mode 'magit-process-mode 'magit-log-mode 'magit-diff-mode 'org-mode 'fundamental-mode) "A blacklist of major-modes to ignore for listing source code buffers.") (defconst buffer/source-code-timeout 2 "Number of seconds to wait before invalidating the cycle.") (cl-defstruct source-code-cycle cycle last-called) (defun buffer/emacs-generated? (name) "Return t if buffer, NAME, is an Emacs-generated buffer. Some buffers are Emacs-generated but are surrounded by whitespace." (let ((trimmed (s-trim name))) (and (s-starts-with? "*" trimmed)))) (defun buffer/find (buffer-or-name) "Find a buffer by its BUFFER-OR-NAME." (get-buffer buffer-or-name)) (defun buffer/major-mode (name) "Return the active `major-mode' in buffer, NAME." (with-current-buffer (buffer/find name) major-mode)) (defun buffer/source-code-buffers () "Return a list of source code buffers. This will ignore Emacs-generated buffers, like *Messages*. It will also ignore any buffer whose major mode is defined in `buffer/source-code-blacklist'." (->> (buffer-list) (list/map #'buffer-name) (list/reject #'buffer/emacs-generated?) (list/reject (lambda (name) (set/contains? (buffer/major-mode name) buffer/source-code-blacklist))))) (defvar buffer/source-code-cycle-state (make-source-code-cycle :cycle (cycle/from-list (buffer/source-code-buffers)) :last-called (ts-now)) "State used to manage cycling between source code buffers.") (defun buffer/exists? (name) "Return t if buffer, NAME, exists." (maybe/some? (buffer/find name))) (defun buffer/new (name) "Return a newly created buffer NAME." (generate-new-buffer name)) (defun buffer/find-or-create (name) "Find or create buffer, NAME. Return a reference to that buffer." (let ((x (buffer/find name))) (if (maybe/some? x) x (buffer/new name)))) ;; TODO: Should this consume: `display-buffer' or `switch-to-buffer'? (defun buffer/show (buffer-or-name) "Display the BUFFER-OR-NAME, which is either a buffer reference or its name." (display-buffer buffer-or-name)) ;; TODO: Move this and `buffer/cycle-prev' into a separate module that ;; encapsulates all of this behavior. (defun buffer/cycle (cycle-fn) "Cycle forwards or backwards through `buffer/source-code-buffers'." (let ((last-called (source-code-cycle-last-called buffer/source-code-cycle-state)) (cycle (source-code-cycle-cycle buffer/source-code-cycle-state))) (if (> (ts-diff (ts-now) last-called) buffer/source-code-timeout) (progn (struct/set! source-code-cycle cycle (cycle/from-list (buffer/source-code-buffers)) buffer/source-code-cycle-state) (let ((cycle (source-code-cycle-cycle buffer/source-code-cycle-state))) (funcall cycle-fn cycle) (switch-to-buffer (cycle/current cycle))) (struct/set! source-code-cycle last-called (ts-now) buffer/source-code-cycle-state)) (progn (funcall cycle-fn cycle) (switch-to-buffer (cycle/current cycle)))))) (defun buffer/cycle-next () "Cycle forward through the `buffer/source-code-buffers'." (interactive) (buffer/cycle #'cycle/next)) (defun buffer/cycle-prev () "Cycle backward through the `buffer/source-code-buffers'." (interactive) (buffer/cycle #'cycle/prev)) (defun buffer/ivy-source-code () "Use `ivy-read' to choose among all open source code buffers." (interactive) (ivy-read "Source code buffer: " (-drop 1 (buffer/source-code-buffers)) :sort nil :action #'switch-to-buffer)) (defun buffer/show-previous () "Call `switch-to-buffer' on the previously visited buffer. This function ignores Emacs-generated buffers, i.e. the ones that look like this: *Buffer*. It also ignores buffers that are `dired-mode' or `erc-mode'. This blacklist can easily be changed." (interactive) (let* ((xs (buffer/source-code-buffers)) (candidate (list/get 1 xs))) (prelude/assert (maybe/some? candidate)) (switch-to-buffer candidate))) (when buffer/install-kbds? (general-define-key :states '(normal) "C-f" #'buffer/cycle-next "C-b" #'buffer/cycle-prev) (general-define-key :prefix "" :states '(normal) "b" #'buffer/ivy-source-code "" #'buffer/show-previous "k" #'kill-buffer)) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Tests ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (when buffer/enable-tests? (prelude/assert (list/all? #'buffer/emacs-generated? '("*scratch*" "*Messages*" "*shell*" "*Shell Command Output*" "*Occur*" "*Warnings*" "*Help*" "*Completions*" "*Apropos*" "*info*")))) (provide 'buffer) ;;; buffer.el ends here