Function: Electric-command-loop

Electric-command-loop is a byte-compiled function defined in electric.el.gz.

Signature

(Electric-command-loop RETURN-TAG &optional PROMPT INHIBIT-QUITTING LOOP-FUNCTION LOOP-STATE)

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/electric.el.gz
;;; electric.el --- window maker and Command loop for `electric' modes  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

;; Copyright (C) 1985-1986, 1995, 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation,
;; Inc.

;; Author: K. Shane Hartman
;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
;; Keywords: extensions

;; 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
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;;; Commentary:

;; "Electric" has been used in Emacs to refer to different things.
;; Among them:
;;
;; - electric modes and buffers: modes that typically pop-up in a modal kind of
;;   way a transient buffer that automatically disappears as soon as the user
;;   is done with it.
;;
;; - electric keys: self inserting keys which additionally perform some side
;;   operation which happens to be often convenient at that time.  Examples of
;;   such side operations are: reindenting code, inserting a newline,
;;   ... auto-fill-mode and abbrev-mode can be considered as built-in forms of
;;   electric key behavior.

;;; Code:

;; This loop is the guts for non-standard modes which retain control
;; until some event occurs.  It is a `do-forever', the only way out is
;; to throw.  It assumes that you have set up the keymap, window, and
;; everything else: all it does is read commands and execute them -
;; providing error messages should one occur (if there is no loop
;; function - which see).  The required argument is a tag which should
;; expect a value of nil if the user decides to punt. The second
;; argument is the prompt to be used: if nil, use "->", if 'noprompt,
;; don't use a prompt, if a string, use that string as prompt, and if
;; a function of no variable, it will be evaluated in every iteration
;; of the loop and its return value, which can be nil, 'noprompt or a
;; string, will be used as prompt.  Given third argument non-nil, it
;; INHIBITS quitting unless the user types C-g at toplevel.  This is
;; so user can do things like C-u C-g and not get thrown out.  Fourth
;; argument, if non-nil, should be a function of two arguments which
;; is called after every command is executed.  The fifth argument, if
;; provided, is the state variable for the function.  If the
;; loop-function gets an error, the loop will abort WITHOUT throwing
;; (moral: use unwind-protect around call to this function for any
;; critical stuff).  The second argument for the loop function is the
;; conditions for any error that occurred or nil if none.

(defun Electric-command-loop (return-tag
			      &optional prompt inhibit-quitting
					loop-function loop-state)

  (let (cmd
        (err nil)
        (inhibit-quit inhibit-quitting)
        (prompt-string prompt))
    (while t
      (if (functionp prompt)
          (setq prompt-string (funcall prompt)))
      (if (not (stringp prompt-string))
          (setq prompt-string (unless (eq prompt-string 'noprompt) "->")))
      (setq cmd (read-key-sequence prompt-string))
      (setq last-command-event (aref cmd (1- (length cmd)))
	    this-command (key-binding cmd t)
	    cmd this-command)
      (if (or (prog1 quit-flag (setq quit-flag nil))
	      (eq last-input-event ?\C-g))
	  (progn (setq unread-command-events nil
		       prefix-arg nil)
		 ;; If it wasn't canceling a prefix character, then quit.
		 (if (or (= (length (this-command-keys)) 1)
			 (not inhibit-quit)) ; safety
		     (progn (ding)
			    (message "Quit")
			    (throw return-tag nil))
		   (setq cmd nil))))
      (setq current-prefix-arg prefix-arg)
      (if cmd
	  (condition-case conditions
	      (progn (command-execute cmd)
		     (setq last-command this-command)
		     (if (or (prog1 quit-flag (setq quit-flag nil))
			     (eq last-input-event ?\C-g))
			 (progn (setq unread-command-events nil)
				(if (not inhibit-quit)
				    (progn (ding)
					   (message "Quit")
					   (throw return-tag nil))
				  (ding)))))
	    (buffer-read-only (if loop-function
				  (setq err conditions)
				(ding)
				(message "Buffer is read-only")
				(sit-for 2)))
	    (beginning-of-buffer (if loop-function
				     (setq err conditions)
				   (ding)
				   (message "Beginning of Buffer")
				   (sit-for 2)))
	    (end-of-buffer (if loop-function
			       (setq err conditions)
			     (ding)
			     (message "End of Buffer")
			     (sit-for 2)))
	    (error (if loop-function
		       (setq err conditions)
		     (ding)
		     (message "Error: %s"
			      (if (eq (car conditions) 'error)
				  (car (cdr conditions))
				(prin1-to-string conditions)))
		     (sit-for 2))))
	(ding))
      (if loop-function (funcall loop-function loop-state err))))
  (ding)
  (throw return-tag nil))