;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;;; try.el --- Try out Emacs packages. ;; Copyright (C) 2014 Lars Tveito. ;; Author: Lars Tveito ;; Contains code from GNU Emacs , ;; released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. ;; Try 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, or (at your option) any later version. ;; ;; Try 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 Try. If not, see . (require 'package) (require 'url) (defvar try-tmp-dir "/tmp/") (defun try-raw-link-p (url) "Returns non-nil if this looks like an URL to a .el file." (string-match-p "[^:]*://\\([^?\r\n]+\\).*\.el?$" url)) (defun try-raw-link (url) (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url) (condition-case nil (progn (eval-region (search-forward-regexp "^$") (point-max)) (let ((str (car (last (split-string url "/"))))) (message "Trying %s!" str))) ((debug error) (message "Could not parse %s" url) nil)))) (defun try-compose (f g) "Compose two functions." (lambda (&rest x) (funcall f (apply g x)))) (defun try () "Try out a package from your `package-archives' or pass a URL to a raw .el file. Packages are stored in `try-tmp-dir' and raw .el files are not stored at all." (interactive) (let ((url-or-package (completing-read "url or package: " (mapcar (try-compose 'symbol-name 'car) package-archive-contents)))) (cond ((try-raw-link-p url-or-package) (try-raw-link url-or-package)) ((assq (intern url-or-package) package-archive-contents) (let ((package-user-dir try-tmp-dir) (package-alist nil)) (package-install (intern url-or-package)) (message "Trying %s!" url-or-package))) (t (message (concat "Couldn't find a sensible way to try this. " "Try running `package-refresh-contents'!")))))) (provide 'try)