;; README's, MANIFEST's, and so on. Submit bugs or suggestions with
;; M-x ffap-bug.
;;
-;; For the default installation, byte-compile ffap.el somewhere in
-;; your `load-path' and add these two lines to your .emacs file:
+;; For the default installation, add these two lines to your .emacs file:
;;
;; (require 'ffap) ; load the package
;; (ffap-bindings) ; do default key bindings
:group 'ffap)
(defcustom ffap-url-unwrap-local t
- "*If non-nil, convert \"file:\" url to local path before prompting."
+ "*If non-nil, convert `file:' url to local path before prompting."
:type 'boolean
:group 'ffap)
(defcustom ffap-url-unwrap-remote t
- "*If non-nil, convert \"ftp:\" url to remote path before prompting.
+ "*If non-nil, convert `ftp:' url to remote path before prompting.
This is ignored if `ffap-ftp-regexp' is nil."
:type 'boolean
:group 'ffap)
;; http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html
"*A function of one argument, called by ffap to fetch an URL.
Reasonable choices are `w3-fetch' or a `browse-url-*' function.
-For a fancy alternative, get ffap-url.el."
+For a fancy alternative, get `ffap-url.el'."
:type '(choice (const w3-fetch)
(const browse-url) ; in recent versions of browse-url
(const browse-url-netscape)
;; particular, if `Pinging...' is broken or takes too long on your
;; machine, try setting these all to accept or reject.
(defcustom ffap-machine-p-local 'reject ; this happens often
- "*A symbol, one of: `ping', `accept', `reject'.
-What `ffap-machine-p' does with hostnames that have no domain."
+ "*What `ffap-machine-p' does with hostnames that have no domain.
+Value should be a symbol, one of `ping', `accept', and `reject'.
:type '(choice (const ping)
(const accept)
(const reject))
:group 'ffap)
-(defcustom ffap-machine-p-known 'ping ; 'accept for speed
- "*A symbol, one of: ping, accept, reject.
-What `ffap-machine-p' does with hostnames that have a known domain
-\(see mail-extr.el for the known domains\)."
+(defcustom ffap-machine-p-known 'ping ; `accept' for higher speed
+ "*What `ffap-machine-p' does with hostnames that have a known domain.
+Value should be a symbol, one of `ping', `accept', and `reject'.
+See `mail-extr.el' for the known domains."
:type '(choice (const ping)
(const accept)
(const reject))
:group 'ffap)
(defcustom ffap-machine-p-unknown 'reject
- "*A symbol, one of: ping, accept, reject.
-What `ffap-machine-p' does with hostnames that have an unknown domain
-\(see mail-extr.el for the known domains\)."
+ "*What `ffap-machine-p' does with hostnames that have an unknown domain.
+Value should be a symbol, one of `ping', `accept', and `reject'.
+See `mail-extr.el' for the known domains."
:type '(choice (const ping)
(const accept)
(const reject))
;; (ffap-replace-path-component "/who@foo.com:/whatever" "/new")
(defun ffap-file-suffix (file)
- "Return trailing \".foo\" suffix of FILE, or nil if none."
+ "Return trailing `.foo' suffix of FILE, or nil if none."
(let ((pos (string-match "\\.[^./]*\\'" file)))
(and pos (substring file pos nil))))
;; filename, maybe modified by adding a suffix like ".gz". That
;; broke the interface of file-exists-p, so it was later dropped.
;; Here we document and simulate the old behavior.
- "Return FILE \(maybe modified\) if it exists, else nil.
+ "Return FILE (maybe modified) if the file exists, else nil.
When using jka-compr (a.k.a. `auto-compression-mode'), the returned
name may have a suffix added from `ffap-compression-suffixes'.
The optional NOMODIFY argument suppresses the extra search."
ret))))
(defun ffap-file-remote-p (filename)
- "If FILENAME looks remote, return it \(maybe slightly improved\)."
+ "If FILENAME looks remote, return it (maybe slightly improved)."
;; (ffap-file-remote-p "/user@foo.bar.com:/pub")
;; (ffap-file-remote-p "/cssun.mathcs.emory.edu://path")
;; (ffap-file-remote-p "/ffap.el:80")
(math-mode ",-:$+<>@-Z_a-z~`" "<" "@>;.,!?`:")
)
"Alist of \(MODE CHARS BEG END\), where MODE is a symbol,
-possibly a `major-mode' or some symbol internal to ffap
-\(such as 'file, 'url, 'machine, and 'nocolon\).
+possibly a major-mode name, or one of the symbol
+`file', `url', `machine', and `nocolon'.
`ffap-string-at-point' uses the data fields as follows:
1. find a maximal string of CHARS around point,
2. strip BEG chars before point from the beginning,
(defun ffap-string-at-point (&optional mode)
"Return a string of characters from around point.
-MODE (defaults to `major-mode') is a symbol used to lookup string
+MODE (defaults to value of `major-mode') is a symbol used to look up string
syntax parameters in `ffap-string-at-point-mode-alist'.
-If MODE is not found, we fall back on the symbol 'file.
+If MODE is not found, we use `file' instead of MODE.
Sets `ffap-string-at-point' and `ffap-string-at-point-region'."
(let* ((args
(cdr
Arguments are TITLE, ALIST, and CONT \(a continuation function\).
This uses either a menu or the minibuffer depending on invocation.
The TITLE string is used as either the prompt or menu title.
-Each \(string . data\) ALIST entry defines a choice.
+Each ALIST entry looks like (STRING . DATA) and defines one choice.
Function CONT is applied to the entry chosen by the user."
;; Note: this function is used with a different continuation
;; by the ffap-url add-on package.