;;; libxml-doc.el - look up libxml-symbols and start browser on documentation ;; Author: Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> ;; Created: Jun 21 2000 ;; Keywords: libxml documentation ;; This program 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 ;; of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;; ;; This program 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 this program; if not, write to the Free Software ;; Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ;;; Commentary / README ;; these functions allow you to browse the libxml documentation ;; (using lynx within emacs by default; ;; ----- Installing ;; 1. add the following to ~/.emacs (adapt path and remove comments !) ;; (load ~/elisp/libxml-doc.el) ;; you can also load this conditionally in a c-mode-hook (preferred) ;; ;;(add-hook 'c-mode-hook (lambda() ;; (load-file "~/elisp/libxml-doc.el"))) ;; ;; or you can use this if you are using libxml2 ;;(add-hook 'c-mode-hook (lambda() ;; (save-excursion ;; (if (search-forward "#include <libxml/" nil t nil) ;; (load-file "~/elisp/libxml-doc.el")) ;; ))) ;; ;; 2. adapt libxmldoc-root: ;; i.e. (setq libxmldoc-root "~/libxml2-2.0.0/doc/html/") ;; 3. change the filter-regex: by default, cpp-defines, callbacks and ;; html-functions are excluded (C-h v libxmldoc-filter-regexp) ;; 4. consider customizing libxmldoc-browse-url (lynx by default); ;; cannot use Emacs/W3 4.0pre46 because it has problems with the html ;; ----- Using ;; call M-x libxmldoc-lookup-symbol: this will prompt with completion ;; and then open the browser showing the documentation. If the word ;; around the point matches a symbol, that is used instead (no completion). ;;; ChangeLog: ;; Wed Jun 21 01:07:12 2000: initial release ;; Wed Jun 21 01:45:29 2000: added libxmldoc-lookup-symbol-at-point ;; Wed Jun 21 23:37:58 2000: libxmldoc-lookup-symbol now uses ;; (thing-at-point 'word) if it matches a symbol ;; Thu Jun 22 02:37:46 2000: filtering is only done for completion ;; Thu Jun 22 21:03:41 2000: libxmldoc-browse-url can be customized ;;; TODO: ;; use command-execute for libxml-browse-url ;;; Code: (defvar libxmldoc-root "~/libxml/www.xmlsoft.org" "The root-directory of the libxml2-documentation (~ will be expanded).") (defvar libxmldoc-filter-regexp "^html\\|^\\*\\|^[A-Z_]+\\|^$" "Symbols that match this regular expression will be excluded when doing completion. For example: callbacks: \"^\\\\*\" cpp-defines: \"[A-Z_]+\" xml-functions \"^xml\" html-functions \"^html\" sax-functions \".*SAX\" By default, callbacks, cpp-defines and html* are excluded. If you redefine this, you should include \"^$\" as alternative, which removes empty tokens. i.e. removing \"^html\\\\|\" from the above regexp causes html* to be shown.") (defvar libxmldoc-browse-url 'browse-url-lynx-emacs "Browser used for browsing documentation. Emacs/W3 4.0pre46 cannot handle the html, so lynx-emacs is used by default.") (defvar libxmldoc-symbol-history nil "History for looking up libxml-symbols.") ;;;; public functions (defun libxmldoc-lookup-symbol(&optional symbol) "Look up xml-symbol." (interactive) (let ((symbols) (real-symbol symbol) (url)) (if symbol (setq symbols (libxmldoc-get-list-of-symbols t)) (setq symbols (libxmldoc-get-list-of-symbols nil))) (if (null real-symbol) (if (assoc (thing-at-point 'word) symbols) (setq real-symbol (thing-at-point 'word)) (setq real-symbol (completing-read "Libxml: " symbols nil t "" 'libxmldoc-symbol-history "" t)))) (if (null (assoc real-symbol symbols)) (error (concat "libxmldoc: '" real-symbol "' not found !"))) (setq url (cdr (assoc real-symbol symbols))) ;; (minibuffer-message uri) (apply libxmldoc-browse-url (list url)))) ;;(defun libxmldoc-lookup-symbol-at-point() ;; "Look up libxml-symbol at point." (interactive) ;; (libxmldoc-lookup-symbol (thing-at-point 'word))) ;;;; internal (defun libxmldoc-get-list-of-symbols(&optional nofilter) "Get the list of html-links in the libxml-documentation." (let ((files (directory-files libxmldoc-root t "^gnome-xml-.*\\.html$" t)) (symbols ()) (case-fold-search t) (symbol) (uri)) ;; (minibuffer-message "collecting libxml-symbols...") (while (car files) (find-file (car files)) (while (re-search-forward "<a[^>]*href[ \t\n]*=[ \t\n]*\"\\([^=>]*\\)\"[^>]*>" nil t nil) (setq uri (concat "file://" (expand-file-name libxmldoc-root) "/" (match-string 1))) (if (not (re-search-forward "\\([^<]*\\)<" nil t nil)) (error "regexp error while finding libxml-symbols..")) (setq symbol (match-string 1)) (setq case-fold-search nil) (if (or nofilter (null (string-match libxmldoc-filter-regexp symbol))) (add-to-list 'symbols (cons symbol uri))) (setq case-fold-search t) ) (kill-buffer (current-buffer)) (setq files (cdr files))) symbols)) ;;; libxml-doc.el ends here