From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add XDG utility library
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:24:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQZmoF7+9JtY3C=UkDyCCVPknahvPWku5Cwx+jXDSC7Ww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> schrieb am Mi., 1. Feb. 2017 um 01:28 Uhr:
>
> +;; XDG User Directories
> +;; https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/
> +
> +(defconst xdg-line-regexp
> + (eval-when-compile
> + (rx "XDG_"
> + (group-n 1 (or "DESKTOP" "DOWNLOAD" "TEMPLATES" "PUBLICSHARE"
> + "DOCUMENTS" "MUSIC" "PICTURES" "VIDEOS"))
> + "_DIR=\""
> + (group-n 2 (or "/" "$HOME/") (*? (or (not (any "\"")) "\\\"")))
> + "\""))
> + "Regexp matching non-comment lines in xdg-user-dirs config files.")
> +
> +(defvar xdg-user-dirs nil
> + "Alist of directory keys and values.")
> +
> +(defun xdg--user-dirs-parse-line ()
> + "Return pair of user-dirs key to directory value in LINE, otherwise nil.
> +This should be called at the beginning of a line."
> + (skip-chars-forward "[:blank:]")
> + (when (and (/= (following-char) ?#)
> + (looking-at xdg-line-regexp))
> + (let ((k (match-string 1))
> + (v (match-string 2)))
> + (when (and k v) (cons k v)))))
> +
> +(defun xdg--user-dirs-parse-file (filename)
> + "Return alist of xdg-user-dirs from FILENAME."
> + (let (elt res)
> + (with-temp-buffer
> + (insert-file-contents filename)
> + (goto-char (point-min))
> + (while (not (eobp))
> + (setq elt (xdg--user-dirs-parse-line))
> + (when (consp elt) (push elt res))
> + (forward-line)))
> + res))
> +
> +(defun xdg-user-dir (name)
> + "Return the path of user directory referred to by NAME."
> + (when (null xdg-user-dirs)
> + (setq xdg-user-dirs
> + (xdg--user-dirs-parse-file
> + (expand-file-name "user-dirs.dirs" (xdg-config-home)))))
> + (cdr (assoc name xdg-user-dirs)))
>
This parsing seems a bit brittle (what if the file contains ${HOME} instead
of $HOME?); probably this should call the xdg-user-dir program instead.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-01 0:26 [PATCH] Add XDG utility library Mark Oteiza
2017-02-01 11:19 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-02-01 12:14 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-02-01 11:24 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-02-01 12:17 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-02-01 15:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
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