;;; try.el --- Try out Emacs packages. -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Copyright (C) 2014 Lars Tveito. ;; Author: Lars Tveito ;; URL: http://github.com/larstvei/try ;; Created: 13th November 2014 ;; Keywords: packages ;; Version: 0.0.1 ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "24")) ;; 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 . ;;; Commentary: ;; Try is a package that allows you to try out Emacs packages without ;; installing them. If you pass a URL to a plain text `.el`-file it evaluates ;; the content, without storing the file. ;; For more info see https://github.com/larstvei/Try ;;; Code: (require 'package) (require 'url) (defvar try-tmp-dir (make-temp-file "try" t) "A temporary directory for storing packages.") (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-package-exists-p (package-name) "Returns non-nil if the package is available for download." (assq package-name package-archive-contents)) (defun try-compose (f g) "Compose two functions." (lambda (&rest x) (funcall f (apply g x)))) (defun try-complete (archive) "Complete from available package names." (let* ((f (try-compose #'symbol-name #'car)) (pkgs (mapcar f archive))) (completing-read "url or package: " pkgs))) ;;;###autoload (defun try-and-refresh () "Refreshes package-list before calling `try'." (interactive) (package-refresh-contents) (try)) ;;;###autoload (defun try (&optional url-or-package) "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) ;; Completions for packages. (let* ((url-or-package (or (if (and url-or-package (symbolp url-or-package)) (symbol-name url-or-package) url-or-package) (try-complete package-archive-contents))) (package-symbol (intern url-or-package))) (cond ((try-raw-link-p url-or-package) (try-raw-link url-or-package)) ((try-package-exists-p package-symbol) (let ((package-user-dir try-tmp-dir) (package-alist nil)) (if (version< emacs-version "25.1") (package-install package-symbol) (package-install package-symbol 'dont-select)) (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) ;;; try.el ends here.