;;; idutils.el -- emacs interface to `lid -R grep', a.k.a. `gid'
;;; Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;;; Greg McGary <gkm@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.

;; This file is part of GNU idutils.

;; GNU idutils 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 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.

;; GNU idutils 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.

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;;; This package provides the tools meant to help editing PO files,
;;; as documented in the GNU idutils user's manual.  See this manual
;;; for user documentation, which is not repeated here.

;;; To install, merely put this file somewhere GNU Emacs will find it,
;;; then add the following lines to your .emacs file:
;;;
;;;   (autoload 'gid "idutils")
;;;
;;; You may also adjust some customizations variables, below, by defining
;;; them in your .emacs file.

(require 'compile)
(require 'thingatpt)

(defvar gid-command "gid" "The command run by the gid function.")

(defvar gid-mode-font-lock-keywords
  '(("^\\(Compilation\\|Gid\\) \\(started\\|finished\\).*"
     (0 '(face nil message nil help-echo nil mouse-face nil) t))))

(defvar gid-use-search-in-buffer-name t
  "If non-nil, use the search string in the gid buffer's name.")

(define-compilation-mode gid-mode "Gid"
  "Specialization of compilation-mode for use with gid."
  nil)

(defun gid (args)
  "Run gid, with user-specified ARGS, and collect output in a buffer.
While gid runs asynchronously, you can use the \\[next-error] command to
find the text that gid hits refer to. The command actually run is
defined by the gid-command variable."
  (interactive (list (read-input
     (concat "Run " gid-command " (with args): ") (thing-at-point 'symbol))))
  (let (compile-command
	(compilation-error-regexp-alist grep-regexp-alist)
	(compilation-directory default-directory)
	(gid-full-buffer-name (concat "*gid-" args "*")))
    (save-some-buffers (not compilation-ask-about-save) nil)
    (compilation-start (concat gid-command " " args) 'gid-mode
		       (when gid-use-search-in-buffer-name
			 (function (lambda (ignore)
				     gid-full-buffer-name)))
		       (regexp-quote args))))

(provide 'idutils)