;;; repeat.el --- convenient way to repeat the previous command -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Copyright (C) 1998, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Will Mengarini ;; Created: Mo 02 Mar 98 ;; Old-Version: 0.51 ;; Keywords: convenience, vi, repeat ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs 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. ;; GNU Emacs 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 GNU Emacs. If not, see . ;;; Commentary: ;; Sometimes the fastest way to get something done is just to lean on a key; ;; moving forward through a series of words by leaning on M-f is an example. ;; But 'forward-page is orthodoxly bound to C-x ], so moving forward through ;; several pages requires ;; Loop until desired page is reached: ;; Hold down control key with left pinkie. ;; Tap . ;; Lift left pinkie off control key. ;; Tap <]>. ;; This is a pain in the ass. ;; This package defines a command that repeats the preceding command, ;; whatever that was, including its arguments, whatever they were. ;; This command is connected to the key C-x z. ;; To repeat the previous command once, type C-x z. ;; To repeat it a second time immediately after, type just z. ;; By typing z again and again, you can repeat the command over and over. ;; This works correctly inside a keyboard macro as far as recording and ;; playback go, but `edit-kbd-macro' gets it wrong. That shouldn't really ;; matter; if you need to edit something like ;; C-x ] ;; forward-page ;; C-x z ;; repeat ;; zz ;; self-insert-command * 2 ;; C-x ;; Control-X-prefix ;; you can just kill the bogus final 2 lines, then duplicate the repeat line ;; as many times as it's really needed. Also, `edit-kbd-macro' works ;; correctly if `repeat' is invoked through a rebinding to a single keystroke ;; and the global variable repeat-on-final-keystroke is set to a value ;; that doesn't include that keystroke. For example, the lines ;; (global-set-key "\C-z" 'repeat) ;; (setq repeat-on-final-keystroke "z") ;; in your .emacs would allow `edit-kbd-macro' to work correctly when C-z was ;; used in a keyboard macro to invoke `repeat', but would still allow C-x z ;; to be used for `repeat' elsewhere. The real reason for documenting this ;; isn't that anybody would need it for the `edit-kbd-macro' problem, but ;; that there might be other unexpected ramifications of re-executing on ;; repetitions of the final keystroke, and this shows how to do workarounds. ;; If the preceding command had a prefix argument, that argument is applied ;; to the repeat command, unless the repeat command is given a new prefix ;; argument, in which case it applies that new prefix argument to the ;; preceding command. This means a key sequence like C-u - C-x C-t can be ;; repeated. (It shoves the preceding line upward in the buffer.) ;; Here are some other key sequences with which repeat might be useful: ;; C-u - C-t [shove preceding character backward in line] ;; C-u - M-t [shove preceding word backward in sentence] ;; C-x ^ enlarge-window [one line] (assuming frame has > 1 window) ;; C-u - C-x ^ [shrink window one line] ;; C-x ` next-error ;; C-u - C-x ` [previous error] ;; C-x DEL backward-kill-sentence ;; C-x e call-last-kbd-macro ;; C-x r i insert-register ;; C-x r t string-rectangle ;; C-x TAB indent-rigidly [one character] ;; C-u - C-x TAB [outdent rigidly one character] ;; C-x { shrink-window-horizontally ;; C-x } enlarge-window-horizontally ;;; Code: ;;;;; ************************* USER OPTIONS ************************** ;;;;; (defcustom repeat-too-dangerous '(kill-this-buffer) "Commands too dangerous to repeat with \\[repeat]." :group 'convenience :type '(repeat function)) ;; If the last command was self-insert-command, the char to be inserted was ;; obtained by that command from last-command-event, which has now been ;; clobbered by the command sequence that invoked `repeat'. We could get it ;; from (recent-keys) & set last-command-event to that, "unclobbering" it, but ;; this has the disadvantage that if the user types a sequence of different ;; chars then invokes repeat, only the final char will be inserted. In vi, ;; the dot command can reinsert the entire most-recently-inserted sequence. (defvar repeat-message-function nil "If non-nil, function used by `repeat' command to say what it's doing. Message is something like \"Repeating command glorp\". A value of `ignore' will disable such messages. To customize display, assign a function that takes one string as an arg and displays it however you want. If this variable is nil, the normal `message' function will be used to display the messages.") (defcustom repeat-on-final-keystroke t "Allow `repeat' to re-execute for repeating lastchar of a key sequence. If this variable is t, `repeat' determines what key sequence it was invoked by, extracts the final character of that sequence, and re-executes as many times as that final character is hit; so for example if `repeat' is bound to C-x z, typing C-x z z z repeats the previous command 3 times. If this variable is a sequence of characters, then re-execution only occurs if the final character by which `repeat' was invoked is a member of that sequence. If this variable is nil, no re-execution occurs." :group 'convenience :type '(choice (const :tag "Repeat for all keys" t) (const :tag "Don't repeat" nil) (sexp :tag "Repeat for specific keys"))) ;;;;; ****************** HACKS TO THE REST OF EMACS ******************* ;;;;; ;; The basic strategy is to use last-command, a variable built in to Emacs. ;; There are 2 issues that complicate this strategy. The first is that ;; last-command is given a bogus value when any kill command is executed; ;; this is done to make it easy for `yank-pop' to know that it's being invoked ;; after a kill command. The second is that the meaning of the command is ;; often altered by the prefix arg, but although Emacs (19.34) has a ;; builtin prefix-arg specifying the arg for the next command, as well as a ;; builtin current-prefix-arg, it has no builtin last-prefix-arg. ;; There's a builtin (this-command-keys), the return value of which could be ;; executed with (command-execute), but there's no (last-command-keys). ;; Using (last-command-keys) if it existed wouldn't be optimal, however, ;; since it would complicate checking membership in repeat-too-dangerous. ;; It would of course be trivial to implement last-prefix-arg & ;; true-last-command by putting something in post-command-hook, but that ;; entails a performance hit; the approach taken below avoids that. ;; Coping with strings of self-insert commands gets hairy when they interact ;; with auto-filling. Most problems are eliminated by remembering what we're ;; self-inserting, so we only need to get it from the undo information once. ;; With Emacs 22.2 the variable `last-repeatable-command' stores the ;; most recently executed command that was not bound to an input event. ;; `repeat' now repeats that command instead of `real-last-command' to ;; avoid a "... must be bound to an event with parameters" error. ;;;;; *************** ANALOGOUS HACKS TO `repeat' ITSELF **************** ;;;;; ;; That mechanism of checking num-input-keys to figure out what's really ;; going on can be useful to other commands that need to fine-tune their ;; interaction with repeat. Instead of requiring them to advise repeat, we ;; can just defvar the value they need here, & setq it in the repeat command: (defvar repeat-num-input-keys-at-repeat -1 "# key sequences read in Emacs session when `repeat' last invoked.") ;; Also, we can assign a name to the test for which that variable is ;; intended, which thereby documents here how to use it, & makes code that ;; uses it self-documenting: (defsubst repeat-is-really-this-command () "Return t if this command is happening because user invoked `repeat'. Usually, when a command is executing, the Emacs builtin variable `this-command' identifies the command the user invoked. Some commands modify that variable on the theory they're doing more good than harm; `repeat' does that, and usually does do more good than harm. However, like all do-gooders, sometimes `repeat' gets surprising results from its altruism. The value of this function is always whether the value of `this-command' would've been 'repeat if `repeat' hadn't modified it." (= repeat-num-input-keys-at-repeat num-input-keys)) ;; An example of the use of (repeat-is-really-this-command) may still be ;; available in ; search for ;; "defun wm-switch-buffer". ;;;;; ******************* THE REPEAT COMMAND ITSELF ******************* ;;;;; (defvar repeat-previous-repeated-command nil "The previous repeated command.") ;;;###autoload (defun repeat (repeat-arg) "Repeat most recently executed command. If REPEAT-ARG is non-nil (interactively, with a prefix argument), supply a prefix argument to that command. Otherwise, give the command the same prefix argument it was given before, if any. If this command is invoked by a multi-character key sequence, it can then be repeated by repeating the final character of that sequence. This behavior can be modified by the global variable `repeat-on-final-keystroke'. `repeat' ignores commands bound to input events. Hence the term \"most recently executed command\" shall be read as \"most recently executed command not bound to an input event\"." ;; The most recently executed command could be anything, so surprises could ;; result if it were re-executed in a context where new dynamically ;; localized variables were shadowing global variables in a `let' clause in ;; here. (Remember that GNU Emacs 19 is dynamically localized.) ;; To avoid that, I tried the `lexical-let' of the Common Lisp extensions, ;; but that entails a very noticeable performance hit, so instead I use the ;; "repeat-" prefix, reserved by this package, for *local* variables that ;; might be visible to re-executed commands, including this function's arg. (interactive "P") (when (eq last-repeatable-command 'repeat) (setq last-repeatable-command repeat-previous-repeated-command)) (cond ((null last-repeatable-command) (error "There is nothing to repeat")) ((eq last-repeatable-command 'mode-exit) (error "last-repeatable-command is mode-exit & can't be repeated")) ((memq last-repeatable-command repeat-too-dangerous) (error "Command %S too dangerous to repeat automatically" last-repeatable-command))) (setq this-command last-repeatable-command repeat-previous-repeated-command last-repeatable-command repeat-num-input-keys-at-repeat num-input-keys) (when (null repeat-arg) (setq repeat-arg last-prefix-arg)) ;; Now determine whether to loop on repeated taps of the final character ;; of the key sequence that invoked repeat. The Emacs global ;; last-command-event contains the final character now, but may not still ;; contain it after the previous command is repeated, so the character ;; needs to be saved. (let ((repeat-repeat-char (if (eq repeat-on-final-keystroke t) last-command-event ;; Allow only specified final keystrokes. (car (memq last-command-event (listify-key-sequence repeat-on-final-keystroke)))))) (if (eq last-repeatable-command (caar command-history)) (let ((repeat-command (car command-history))) (repeat-message "Repeating %S" repeat-command) (eval repeat-command)) (if (null repeat-arg) (repeat-message "Repeating command %S" last-repeatable-command) (setq current-prefix-arg repeat-arg) (repeat-message "Repeating command %S %S" repeat-arg last-repeatable-command)) (when (eq last-repeatable-command 'self-insert-command) ;; We used to use a much more complex code to try and figure out ;; what key was used to run that self-insert-command: ;; (if (<= (- num-input-keys ;; repeat-num-input-keys-at-self-insert) ;; 1) ;; repeat-last-self-insert ;; (let ((range (nth 1 buffer-undo-list))) ;; (condition-case nil ;; (setq repeat-last-self-insert ;; (buffer-substring (car range) ;; (cdr range))) ;; (error (error "%s %s %s" ;Danger, Will Robinson! ;; "repeat can't intuit what you" ;; "inserted before auto-fill" ;; "clobbered it, sorry"))))) (setq last-command-event (char-before))) (let ((indirect (indirect-function last-repeatable-command))) (if (or (stringp indirect) (vectorp indirect)) ;; Bind last-repeatable-command so that executing the macro does ;; not alter it. (let ((last-repeatable-command last-repeatable-command)) (execute-kbd-macro last-repeatable-command)) (call-interactively last-repeatable-command)))) (when repeat-repeat-char (set-transient-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) (define-key map (vector repeat-repeat-char) (if (null repeat-message-function) 'repeat ;; If repeat-message-function is let-bound, preserve it for the ;; next "iterations of the loop". (let ((fun repeat-message-function)) (lambda () (interactive) (let ((repeat-message-function fun)) (setq this-command 'repeat) ;; Beware: messing with `real-this-command' is *bad*, but we ;; need it so `last-repeatable-command' can be recognized ;; later (bug#12232). (setq real-this-command 'repeat) (call-interactively 'repeat)))))) map))))) (defun repeat-message (format &rest args) "Like `message' but displays with `repeat-message-function' if non-nil." (let ((message (apply 'format format args))) (if repeat-message-function (funcall repeat-message-function message) (message "%s" message)))) ;; OK, there's one situation left where that doesn't work correctly: when the ;; most recent self-insertion provoked an auto-fill. The problem is that ;; unraveling the undo information after an auto-fill is too hard, since all ;; kinds of stuff can get in there as a result of comment prefixes etc. It'd ;; be possible to advise do-auto-fill to record the most recent ;; self-insertion before it does its thing, but that's a performance hit on ;; auto-fill, which already has performance problems; so it's better to just ;; leave it like this. If text didn't provoke an auto-fill when the user ;; typed it, this'll correctly repeat its self-insertion, even if the ;; repetition does cause auto-fill. ;; If you wanted perfection, probably it'd be necessary to hack do-auto-fill ;; into 2 functions, maybe-do-auto-fill & really-do-auto-fill, because only ;; really-do-auto-fill should be advised. As things are, either the undo ;; information would need to be scanned on every do-auto-fill invocation, or ;; the code at the top of do-auto-fill deciding whether filling is necessary ;; would need to be duplicated in the advice, wasting execution time when ;; filling does turn out to be necessary. ;; I thought maybe this story had a moral, something about functional ;; decomposition; but now I'm not even sure of that, since a function ;; call per se is a performance hit, & even the code that would ;; correspond to really-do-auto-fill has performance problems that ;; can make it necessary to stop typing while Emacs catches up. ;; Maybe the real moral is that perfection is a chimera. ;; Ah, hell, it's all going to fall into a black hole someday anyway. ;;;;; ************************* EMACS CONTROL ************************* ;;;;; ;; And now for something completely different. ;;; repeat-mode (defcustom repeat-exit-key nil "Key that stops the modal repeating of keys in sequence. For example, you can set it to like `isearch-exit'." :type '(choice (const :tag "No special key to exit repeating sequence" nil) (key-sequence :tag "Key that exits repeating sequence")) :group 'convenience :version "28.1") ;;;###autoload (define-minor-mode repeat-mode "Toggle Repeat mode. When Repeat mode is enabled, and the command symbol has the property named `repeat-map', this map is activated temporarily for the next command." :global t :group 'convenience (if (not repeat-mode) (remove-hook 'post-command-hook 'repeat-post-hook) (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'repeat-post-hook) (let* ((keymaps nil) (commands (all-completions "" obarray (lambda (s) (and (commandp s) (get s 'repeat-map) (push (get s 'repeat-map) keymaps)))))) (message "Repeat mode is enabled for %d commands and %d keymaps" (length commands) (length (delete-dups keymaps)))))) (defun repeat-post-hook () "Function run after commands to set transient keymap for repeatable keys." (when repeat-mode (let ((repeat-map (and (symbolp this-command) (get this-command 'repeat-map)))) (when repeat-map (when (boundp repeat-map) (setq repeat-map (symbol-value repeat-map))) (let ((map (copy-keymap repeat-map)) keys mess) (map-keymap (lambda (key _) (push key keys)) map) ;; Exit when the last char is not among repeatable keys, ;; so e.g. `C-x u u' repeats undo, whereas `C-/ u' doesn't. (when (or (memq last-command-event keys) (memq this-original-command '(universal-argument universal-argument-more digit-argument negative-argument))) ;; Messaging (setq mess (format-message "Repeat with %s%s" (mapconcat (lambda (key) (key-description (vector key))) keys ", ") (if repeat-exit-key (format ", or exit with %s" (key-description repeat-exit-key)) ""))) (if (current-message) (message "%s [%s]" (current-message) mess) (message mess)) ;; Adding an exit key (when repeat-exit-key (define-key map repeat-exit-key 'ignore)) (set-transient-map map))))))) (provide 'repeat) ;;; repeat.el ends here