;;; mb-depth.el --- Indicate minibuffer-depth in prompt -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; ;; Copyright (C) 2006-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; ;; Author: Miles Bader ;; Keywords: convenience ;; 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: ;; ;; Defines the minor mode `minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode'. ;; ;; When active, any recursive use of the minibuffer will show ;; the recursion depth in the minibuffer prompt. This is only ;; useful if `enable-recursive-minibuffers' is non-nil. ;;; Code: (defvar minibuffer-depth-indicator-function nil "If non-nil, function to set up the minibuffer depth indicator. It is called with one argument, the minibuffer depth, and must return a string.") (defface minibuffer-depth-indicator '((t :inherit highlight)) "Face to use for minibuffer depth indicator.") ;; An overlay covering the prompt. This is a buffer-local variable in ;; each affected minibuffer. ;; (defvar minibuffer-depth-overlay) (make-variable-buffer-local 'minibuffer-depth-overlay) ;; This function goes on minibuffer-setup-hook (defun minibuffer-depth-setup () "Set up a minibuffer for `minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode'. The prompt should already have been inserted." (let ((depth (minibuffer-depth))) (when (> depth 1) (let ((pos (point-min))) (setq minibuffer-depth-overlay (make-overlay pos (1+ pos)))) (overlay-put minibuffer-depth-overlay 'before-string (if minibuffer-depth-indicator-function (funcall minibuffer-depth-indicator-function depth) (concat (propertize (format "[%d]" depth) 'face 'minibuffer-depth-indicator) " "))) (overlay-put minibuffer-depth-overlay 'evaporate t)))) ;;;###autoload (define-minor-mode minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode "Toggle Minibuffer Depth Indication mode. Minibuffer Depth Indication mode is a global minor mode. When enabled, any recursive use of the minibuffer will show the recursion depth in the minibuffer prompt. This is only useful if `enable-recursive-minibuffers' is non-nil." :global t :group 'minibuffer (if minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode ;; Enable the mode (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'minibuffer-depth-setup) ;; Disable the mode (remove-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'minibuffer-depth-setup))) (provide 'mb-depth) ;;; mb-depth.el ends here