;;; lazy-wdired.el --- -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; Copyright (C) 2020 Arthur Miller ;; Author: Arthur Miller ;; Keywords: ;; 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 3 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, see . ;;; Commentary: ;;; Enable editing of file name and properties only at the point. ;;; Code: (require 'wdired) (defvar wdired-perm-beg) ;; Column where the permission bits start (defvar wdired-perm-end) ;; Column where the permission bits stop ;;;###autoload (defun wdired-change-to-wdired-mode () "Put a Dired buffer in Writable Dired (WDired) mode. \\ In WDired mode, you can edit the names of the files in the buffer, the target of the links, and the permission bits of the files. After typing \\[wdired-finish-edit], Emacs modifies the files and directories to reflect your edits. See `wdired-mode'." (interactive) (unless (derived-mode-p 'dired-mode) (error "Not a Dired buffer")) (setq-local wdired-old-content (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))) (setq-local wdired-old-marks (dired-remember-marks (point-min) (point-max))) (setq-local wdired-old-point (point)) (setq-local wdired-perm-beg nil) (setq-local wdired-perm-end nil) (setq-local query-replace-skip-read-only t) (add-function :after-while (local 'isearch-filter-predicate) #'wdired-isearch-filter-read-only) (use-local-map wdired-mode-map) (force-mode-line-update) (setq buffer-read-only nil) (dired-unadvertise default-directory) (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook #'wdired-check-kill-buffer nil t) (add-hook 'before-change-functions #'wdired--before-change-fn nil t) (add-hook 'after-change-functions #'wdired--restore-properties nil t) (setq major-mode 'wdired-mode) (setq mode-name "Editable Dired") (setq revert-buffer-function 'wdired-revert) (set-buffer-modified-p nil) (setq buffer-undo-list nil) ;; find one column with permissions and set permision text boundaries (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (unless (re-search-forward dired-re-perms nil t 1) (wdired-abort-changes) (error "No files to be renamed - Exiting to Dired mode.")) (goto-char (match-beginning 0)) (setq-local wdired-perm-beg (current-column)) (goto-char (match-end 0)) (setq-local wdired-perm-end (current-column))) (define-key wdired-mode-map [remap self-insert-command] #'wdired--self-insert) (run-mode-hooks 'wdired-mode-hook) (message "%s" (substitute-command-keys "Press \\[wdired-finish-edit] when finished \ or \\[wdired-abort-changes] to abort changes"))) (defun wdired--point-at-perms-p () (and (>= (current-column) wdired-perm-beg) (<= (current-column) wdired-perm-end))) (defun wdired--self-insert () (interactive) (if (wdired--point-at-perms-p) (when (not (get-text-property (line-beginning-position) 'front-sticky)) (wdired--before-change-fn (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)) (setq unread-command-events (nconc (listify-key-sequence (this-command-keys)) unread-command-events))) (call-interactively 'self-insert-command))) (defun wdired--before-change-fn (beg end) (save-excursion ;; make sure to process entire lines (goto-char beg) (setq beg (line-beginning-position)) (goto-char end) (setq end (line-end-position)) (while (< beg end) (unless (get-text-property beg 'front-sticky) (put-text-property beg (1+ beg) 'front-sticky t) (wdired--preprocess-files) (when wdired-allow-to-change-permissions (wdired--preprocess-perms)) (when (fboundp 'make-symbolic-link) (wdired--preprocess-symlinks))) (forward-line) (setq beg (point))) ;; is this good enough? assumes no extra white lines from dired (put-text-property (1- (point-max)) (point-max) 'read-only t))) ;; Protect the buffer so only the filenames can be changed, and put ;; properties so filenames (old and new) can be easily found. (defun wdired--preprocess-files () (save-excursion (with-silent-modifications (beginning-of-line) (let ((used-F (dired-check-switches dired-actual-switches "F" "classify")) filename) (setq filename (dired-get-filename nil t)) (when (and filename (not (member (file-name-nondirectory filename) '("." "..")))) (dired-move-to-filename) ;; The rear-nonsticky property below shall ensure that text preceding ;; the filename can't be modified. (add-text-properties (1- (point)) (point) `(old-name ,filename rear-nonsticky (read-only))) (put-text-property (- (point) 1) (point) 'read-only t) (dired-move-to-end-of-filename t) (put-text-property (point) (1+ (point)) 'end-name t)) (when (and used-F (looking-at "[*/@|=>]$")) (forward-char)) (when (save-excursion (and (re-search-backward dired-permission-flags-regexp nil t) (looking-at "l") (search-forward " -> " (line-end-position) t))) (goto-char (line-end-position))))))) (defun wdired-change-to-dired-mode () "Change the mode back to dired." (or (eq major-mode 'wdired-mode) (error "Not a Wdired buffer")) (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (remove-text-properties (point-min) (point-max) '(front-sticky nil rear-nonsticky nil read-only nil keymap nil))) (remove-function (local 'isearch-filter-predicate) #'wdired-isearch-filter-read-only) (use-local-map dired-mode-map) (force-mode-line-update) (setq buffer-read-only t) (setq major-mode 'dired-mode) (setq mode-name "Dired") (dired-advertise) (remove-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'wdired-check-kill-buffer t) (remove-hook 'before-change-functions 'wdired--before-change-fn t) (remove-hook 'after-change-functions 'wdired--restore-properties t) (setq-local revert-buffer-function 'dired-revert)) (defun wdired-abort-changes () "Abort changes and return to dired mode. " (interactive) (remove-hook 'before-change-functions 'wdired--before-change-fn t) (with-silent-modifications (erase-buffer) (insert wdired-old-content) (goto-char wdired-old-point)) (wdired-change-to-dired-mode) (set-buffer-modified-p nil) (setq buffer-undo-list nil) (message "Changes aborted")) ;; Put the needed properties to allow the user to change links' targets (defun wdired--preprocess-symlinks () (save-excursion (with-silent-modifications (beginning-of-line) (when (looking-at dired-re-sym) (re-search-forward " -> \\(.*\\)$") (put-text-property (1- (match-beginning 1)) (match-beginning 1) 'old-link (match-string-no-properties 1)) (put-text-property (match-end 1) (1+ (match-end 1)) 'end-link t) (unless wdired-allow-to-redirect-links (put-text-property (match-beginning 0) (match-end 1) 'read-only t)))))) (defun wdired--preprocess-perms () (save-excursion (with-silent-modifications (setq-local wdired-col-perm nil) (beginning-of-line) (when (and (not (looking-at dired-re-sym)) (wdired-get-filename) (re-search-forward dired-re-perms (line-end-position) 'eol)) (let ((begin (match-beginning 0)) (end (match-end 0))) (unless wdired-col-perm (setq wdired-col-perm (- (current-column) 9))) (if (eq wdired-allow-to-change-permissions 'advanced) (progn (put-text-property begin end 'read-only nil) ;; make first permission bit writable (put-text-property (1- begin) begin 'rear-nonsticky '(read-only))) ;; avoid that keymap applies to text following permissions (add-text-properties (1+ begin) end `(keymap ,wdired-perm-mode-map rear-nonsticky (keymap)))) (put-text-property end (1+ end) 'end-perm t) (put-text-property begin (1+ begin) 'old-perm (match-string-no-properties 0))))))) (provide 'lazy-wdired)