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diff --git a/elpa/with-editor-20220503.1124/with-editor.info b/elpa/with-editor-20220503.1124/with-editor.info new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16a479f --- /dev/null +++ b/elpa/with-editor-20220503.1124/with-editor.info @@ -0,0 +1,382 @@ +This is with-editor.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.7 from +with-editor.texi. + + Copyright (C) 2015-2022 Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> + + You can redistribute this document 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. + + This document 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. + +INFO-DIR-SECTION Emacs +START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY +* With-Editor: (with-editor). Using the Emacsclient as $EDITOR. +END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY + + +File: with-editor.info, Node: Top, Next: Using the With-Editor package, Up: (dir) + +With-Editor User Manual +*********************** + +The library ‘with-editor’ makes it easy to use the Emacsclient as the +‘$EDITOR’ of child processes, making sure they know how to call home. +For remote processes a substitute is provided, which communicates with +Emacs on standard output instead of using a socket as the Emacsclient +does. + + This library was written because Magit has to be able to do the above +to allow the user to edit commit messages gracefully and to edit rebase +sequences, which wouldn’t be possible at all otherwise. + + Because other packages can benefit from such functionality, this +library is made available as a separate package. It also defines some +additional functionality which makes it useful even for end-users, who +don’t use Magit or another package which uses it internally. + +This manual is for With-Editor version 3.2.0-git. + + Copyright (C) 2015-2022 Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> + + You can redistribute this document 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. + + This document 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. + +* Menu: + +* Using the With-Editor package:: +* Using With-Editor as a library:: +* Debugging:: +* Function and Command Index:: +* Variable Index:: + +— The Detailed Node Listing — + +Using the With-Editor package + +* Configuring With-Editor:: +* Using With-Editor commands:: + + + +File: with-editor.info, Node: Using the With-Editor package, Next: Using With-Editor as a library, Prev: Top, Up: Top + +1 Using the With-Editor package +******************************* + +The ‘With-Editor’ package is used internally by Magit when editing +commit messages and rebase sequences. It also provides some commands +and features which are useful by themselves, even if you don’t use +Magit. + + For information about using this library in you own package, see +*note Using With-Editor as a library::. + +* Menu: + +* Configuring With-Editor:: +* Using With-Editor commands:: + + +File: with-editor.info, Node: Configuring With-Editor, Next: Using With-Editor commands, Up: Using the With-Editor package + +1.1 Configuring With-Editor +=========================== + +With-Editor tries very hard to locate a suitable ‘emacsclient’ +executable, so ideally you should never have to customize the option +‘with-editor-emacsclient-executable’. When it fails to do so, then the +most likely reason is that someone found yet another way to package +Emacs (most likely on macOS) without putting the executable on ‘$PATH’, +and we have to add another kludge to find it anyway. + + -- User Option: with-editor-emacsclient-executable + The ‘emacsclient’ executable used as the editor by child process of + this Emacs instance. By using this executable, child processes can + call home to their parent process. + + This option is automatically set at startup by looking in + ‘exec-path’, and other places where the executable could be + installed, to find the ‘emacsclient’ executable most suitable for + the current Emacs instance. + + You should *not* customize this option permanently. If you have to + do it, then you should consider that a temporary kludge and inform + the Magit maintainer as described in *note Debugging::. + + If With-Editor fails to find a suitable ‘emacsclient’ on you + system, then this should be fixed for all users at once, by + teaching ‘with-editor-locate-emacsclient’ how to do so on your + system and system like yours. Doing it this way has the advantage, + that you won’t have do it again every time you update Emacs, and + that other users who have installed Emacs the same way as you have, + won’t have to go through the same trouble. + + Note that there also is a nuclear option; setting this variable to + ‘nil’ causes the "sleeping editor" described below to be used even + for local child processes. Obviously we don’t recommend that you + use this except in "emergencies", i.e. before we had a change to + add a kludge appropriate for you setup. + + -- Function: with-editor-locate-emacsclient + The function used to set the initial value of the option + ‘with-editor-emacsclient-executable’. There’s a lot of voodoo + here. + + The ‘emacsclient’ cannot be used when using Tramp to run a process on +a remote machine. (Theoretically it could, but that would be hard to +setup, very fragile, and rather insecure). + + With-Editor provides an alternative "editor" which can be used by +remote processes in much the same way as local processes use an +‘emacsclient’ executable. This alternative is known as the "sleeping +editor" because it is implemented as a shell script which sleeps until +it receives a signal. + + -- User Option: with-editor-sleeping-editor + The sleeping editor is a shell script used as the editor of child + processes when the ‘emacsclient’ executable cannot be used. + + This fallback is used for asynchronous process started inside the + macro ‘with-editor’, when the process runs on a remote machine or + for local processes when ‘with-editor-emacsclient-executable’ is + ‘nil’. + + Where the latter uses a socket to communicate with Emacs’ server, + this substitute prints edit requests to its standard output on + which a process filter listens for such requests. As such it is + not a complete substitute for a proper ‘emacsclient’, it can only + be used as ‘$EDITOR’ of child process of the current Emacs + instance. + + Some shells do not execute traps immediately when waiting for a + child process, but by default we do use such a blocking child + process. + + If you use such a shell (e.g. ‘csh’ on FreeBSD, but not Debian), + then you have to edit this option. You can either replace ‘sh’ + with ‘bash’ (and install that), or you can use the older, less + performant implementation: + + "sh -c '\ + echo \"WITH-EDITOR: $$ OPEN $0 IN $(pwd)\"; \ + trap \"exit 0\" USR1; \ + trap \"exit 1\" USR2; \ + while true; do sleep 1; done'" + + Note that the unit separator character ( ) right after the file name + ($0) is required. + + Also note that using this alternative implementation leads to a + delay of up to a second. The delay can be shortened by replacing + ‘sleep 1’ with ‘sleep 0.01’, or if your implementation does not + support floats, then by using ‘nanosleep’ instead. + + +File: with-editor.info, Node: Using With-Editor commands, Prev: Configuring With-Editor, Up: Using the With-Editor package + +1.2 Using With-Editor commands +============================== + +This section describes how to use the ‘with-editor’ library _outside_ of +Magit. You don’t need to know any of this just to create commits using +Magit. + + The commands ‘with-editor-async-shell-command’ and +‘with-editor-shell-command’ are intended as drop in replacements for +‘async-shell-command’ and ‘shell-command’. They automatically export +‘$EDITOR’ making sure the executed command uses the current Emacs +instance as "the editor". With a prefix argument these commands prompt +for an alternative environment variable such as ‘$GIT_EDITOR’. + + -- Command: with-editor-async-shell-command + This command is like ‘async-shell-command’, but it runs the shell + command with the current Emacs instance exported as ‘$EDITOR’. + + -- Command: with-editor-shell-command + This command is like ‘shell-command’, but if the shell command ends + with ‘&’ and is therefore run asynchronously, then the current + Emacs instance is exported as ‘$EDITOR’. + + To always use these variants add this to you init file: + + (define-key (current-global-map) + [remap async-shell-command] 'with-editor-async-shell-command) + (define-key (current-global-map) + [remap shell-command] 'with-editor-shell-command) + + Alternatively use the global ‘shell-command-with-editor-mode’. + + -- Variable: shell-command-with-editor-mode + When this mode is active, then ‘$EDITOR’ is exported whenever + ultimately ‘shell-command’ is called to asynchronously run some + shell command. This affects most variants of that command, whether + they are defined in Emacs or in some third-party package. + + The command ‘with-editor-export-editor’ exports ‘$EDITOR’ or another +such environment variable in ‘shell-mode’, ‘eshell-mode’, ‘term-mode’ +and ‘vterm-mode’ buffers. Use this Emacs command before executing a +shell command which needs the editor set, or always arrange for the +current Emacs instance to be used as editor by adding it to the +appropriate mode hooks: + + (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'with-editor-export-editor) + (add-hook 'eshell-mode-hook 'with-editor-export-editor) + (add-hook 'term-exec-hook 'with-editor-export-editor) + (add-hook 'vterm-exec-hook 'with-editor-export-editor) + + Some variants of this function exist; these two forms are equivalent: + + (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook + (apply-partially 'with-editor-export-editor "GIT_EDITOR")) + (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'with-editor-export-git-editor) + + -- Command: with-editor-export-editor + When invoked in a ‘shell-mode’, ‘eshell-mode’, ‘term-mode’ or + ‘vterm-mode’ buffer, this command teaches shell commands to use the + current Emacs instance as the editor, by exporting ‘$EDITOR’. + + -- Command: with-editor-export-git-editor + This command is like ‘with-editor-export-editor’ but exports + ‘$GIT_EDITOR’. + + -- Command: with-editor-export-hg-editor + This command is like ‘with-editor-export-editor’ but exports + ‘$HG_EDITOR’. + + +File: with-editor.info, Node: Using With-Editor as a library, Next: Debugging, Prev: Using the With-Editor package, Up: Top + +2 Using With-Editor as a library +******************************** + +This section describes how to use the ‘with-editor’ library _outside_ of +Magit to teach another package how to have its child processes call +home, just like Magit does. You don’t need to know any of this just to +create commits using Magit. You can also ignore this if you use +‘with-editor’ outside of Magit, but only as an end-user. + + For information about interactive use and options that affect both +interactive and non-interactive use, see *note Using the With-Editor +package::. + + -- Macro: with-editor &rest body + This macro arranges for the ‘emacsclient’ or the sleeping editor to + be used as the editor of child processes, effectively teaching them + to call home to the current Emacs instance when they require that + the user edits a file. + + This is done by establishing a local binding for + ‘process-environment’ and changing the value of the ‘EDITOR’ + environment variable in that scope. This affects all + (asynchronous) processes started by forms (dynamically) inside + BODY. + + If BODY begins with a literal string, then that variable is set + instead of ‘EDITOR’. + + -- Macro: with-editor envvar &rest body + This macro is like ‘with-editor’ instead that the ENVVAR argument + is required and that it is evaluated at run-time. + + -- Function: with-editor-set-process-filter process filter + This function is like ‘set-process-filter’ but ensures that adding + the new FILTER does not remove the ‘with-editor-process-filter’. + This is done by wrapping the two filter functions using a lambda, + which becomes the actual filter. It calls FILTER first, which may + or may not insert the text into the PROCESS’s buffer. Then it + calls ‘with-editor-process-filter’, passing t as + NO-STANDARD-FILTER. + + +File: with-editor.info, Node: Debugging, Next: Function and Command Index, Prev: Using With-Editor as a library, Up: Top + +3 Debugging +*********** + +With-Editor tries very hard to locate a suitable ‘emacsclient’ +executable, and then sets option ‘with-editor-emacsclient-executable’ +accordingly. In very rare cases this fails. When it does fail, then +the most likely reason is that someone found yet another way to package +Emacs (most likely on macOS) without putting the executable on ‘$PATH’, +and we have to add another kludge to find it anyway. + + If you are having problems using ‘with-editor’, e.g. you cannot +commit in Magit, then please open a new issue at +<https://github.com/magit/with-editor/issues> and provide information +about your Emacs installation. Most importantly how did you install +Emacs and what is the output of ‘M-x with-editor-debug RET’. + + +File: with-editor.info, Node: Function and Command Index, Next: Variable Index, Prev: Debugging, Up: Top + +Appendix A Function and Command Index +************************************* + + +* Menu: + +* with-editor: Using With-Editor as a library. + (line 16) +* with-editor <1>: Using With-Editor as a library. + (line 31) +* with-editor-async-shell-command: Using With-Editor commands. + (line 17) +* with-editor-export-editor: Using With-Editor commands. + (line 59) +* with-editor-export-git-editor: Using With-Editor commands. + (line 64) +* with-editor-export-hg-editor: Using With-Editor commands. + (line 68) +* with-editor-locate-emacsclient: Configuring With-Editor. + (line 41) +* with-editor-set-process-filter: Using With-Editor as a library. + (line 35) +* with-editor-shell-command: Using With-Editor commands. + (line 21) + + +File: with-editor.info, Node: Variable Index, Prev: Function and Command Index, Up: Top + +Appendix B Variable Index +************************* + + +* Menu: + +* shell-command-with-editor-mode: Using With-Editor commands. + (line 35) +* with-editor-emacsclient-executable: Configuring With-Editor. + (line 13) +* with-editor-sleeping-editor: Configuring With-Editor. + (line 56) + + + +Tag Table: +Node: Top773 +Node: Using the With-Editor package2567 +Node: Configuring With-Editor3153 +Node: Using With-Editor commands7699 +Node: Using With-Editor as a library10984 +Node: Debugging13009 +Node: Function and Command Index13901 +Node: Variable Index15399 + +End Tag Table + + +Local Variables: +coding: utf-8 +End: |