Try/try.el

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;;; try.el --- Try out Emacs packages. -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;; Copyright (C) 2014 Lars Tveito.
;; Author: Lars Tveito <larstvei@ifi.uio.no>
;; Created: 13th November 2014
;; URL: http://github.com/larstvei/try
;; Contains code from GNU Emacs <https://www.gnu.org/software/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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;; Code:
(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))))
;;;###autoload
(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)
;;; try.el ends here.