1 Minimum Profit Data Model
2 =========================
4 This document describes all the MPSL data structures that build the Minimum
5 Profit Text Editor, with examples showing how to change or update its
11 Each open document is a hash, containing all the information about it,
12 including its text, position, name and the list of changes. A new document
13 is created by calling mp.new() or mp.open(). The keys stored in each
14 document are the following:
16 * name: The name of the document (<unnamed> for unnamed documents).
17 * syntax: The optional syntax highlight definition that applies to it
18 (a value in the `mp.syntax' hash, may be NULL or undefined).
19 * txt: The _state_ of the document (see below).
20 * undo: A list of different values of `txt'. Every time the user changes
21 a document (inserting or deleting text, etc.), the previous value of
22 `txt' is pushed here. Every time the 'undo' action is executed, the
23 last value is popped from here and stored in the `txt' key and the
25 * redo: A list of values popped from the `undo' key.
26 * read_only: If set to nonzero, the document is read-only and cannot
28 * encoding: The encoding that was autodetected when loading the
29 document. If it's NULL or an empty string, no special encoding
30 was detected. If this field is set and the global encoding is not,
31 it's used as the file encoding when saving.
32 * eol: The end of line sequence the loaded document originally had.
33 Only set if `mp.config.keep_eol' is set.
35 The `txt' component contains the current state of the document:
37 * lines: The array of lines that form the document (the document itself).
38 * y: The Y position (line, from 0 to `size(txt.lines) - 1').
39 * x: The X position (column, from 0 to `size(txt.lines[txt.y]) - 1').
40 * mod: A modifier flag. If it's nonzero, the document has unsaved changes.
41 * vx: The first column (from 0) that is visible on screen.
42 * vy: The first line (from 0) that is visible on screen.
47 The list of open documents in stored in the `mp.docs' array. The subscript
48 to the active one (the one returned by mp.active()) is stored in the
49 `mp.active_i' variable. Setting this value effectively changes the active
50 document (obviously, in the 0 .. `size(mp.docs()) - 1' range).
55 The configuration is stored in the `mp.config' hash. Information about this
56 structure can be found in the included document
57 ./mp_configuration.html (Minimum Profit Configuration Directives).
62 Colors are defined in the `mp.colors' hash. The keys contain the name of
63 the color in a syntax highlighting context (i.e. `comments' for the text
64 inside source code comments, `quotes' for the text inside quotes, and so
65 on), and the values are hashes containing the definition for that color in
66 the different driver types. For now, only `gui' and `text' drivers exist,
67 with another special key, `flags', for special effects.
71 * cursor: The color of the cursor.
72 * selection: The color of the selected block.
73 * comments: Text inside programming language comments.
74 * documentation: Text inside documentation marks.
75 * quotes: Text between quotes.
76 * matching: The color of the matching brace (if the cursor is over one).
77 * word1: 1st definition for special words (i.e. tokens).
78 * word2: 2nd definiton for special words (i.e. variables).
79 * tag: Color for tags (symbol names).
80 * spell: Color for mis-spelled words (if spelling is on).
81 * search: Color for the last matched string in searches.
82 * normal: Text outside any other context, or the base color if no syntax
83 highlight is selected.
85 For each key, the value is a hash containing the following keys:
87 * text: a two element array containing the color names for background
88 and foreground. These strings match the colors in Curses terminal modes
89 and must be one of `black', `red', `green', `yellow', `blue',
90 `magenta', `cyan' and `white'. Another special value, `default', skips
92 * gui: A two element array containing the RGB color for background and
93 foreground. It's handy to set this values as hexadecimal numbers,
94 having 0x000000 for black and 0xffffff for white.
95 * flags: This is an optional array containing keywords for special
96 effects in colors. Acceptable values are `reverse', `bright' and
97 `underline' (not all drivers accept all these keywords).
102 The syntax highlight definitions are stored in the `mp.syntax' hash. Each
103 key is the name of the syntax highlight (for example, `html'), and they
104 value is the definition hash. This definition set can be assigned to a
105 document `syntax' key and will be immediately applied.
107 The keys in the definition hash are:
109 * id: The same as the key, as `perl' or `html'.
110 * name: A human-consuming name, that will be shown in the status line
111 (for example, "C / C++" or "Shell script").
112 * filenames: An array of regular expressions to be applied to the
113 document name for syntax detection.
114 * help: An array of system commands to be executed when the help system
115 is invoked by pressing `f1' over a word in a document. It must contain
116 a %s as a placeholder of the word (for example, "man %s" or
118 * defs: An array of definitions.
119 * detect: An optional subroutine that accepts a document as the only
120 argument and that must return a boolean value. This subroutine will be
121 called when auto-detecting the syntax highlight.
122 * section: An array of regular expressions that defines a _section_ inside
123 a document. A section is a special area in the document, as a function
124 definition, for example. Lines matching this regexes will be shown
125 in the `section_list' action form.
127 The syntax highlight definitions is a list containing color names (keys to
128 the `mp.colors' hash) and an array. The array can contain single strings
129 of regular expressions (matching string will have the color set), or an
130 array of two regular expressions (setting the start and the end of the
131 block to be coloured).
133 This is a snippet for the `comments' definition in the C language syntax
134 highlight. The first definition is a two array of regular expressions,
135 matching the start and the end of a C style comment; all text between these
136 marks will be coloured as a comment. The following one, a single string, is
137 a regular expression that matches from two slashes to the end of the line:
139 /* more code above... */
141 [ '|/\*|', '|\*/|' ], /* C style */
142 '|//.*$|m', /* C++ style */
145 See the `mp_syntax.mpsl' for details and examples.
150 Keycodes are defined in the `mp.keycodes' hash. Each key contain the name
151 of the keycode, as `ctrl-f' or `f3'. The value can be an executable value
152 (that will be directly executed with the current document as only
153 argument), a string containing the name of an action (that must be a key to
154 the `mp.actions' hash), or another hash, that will contain itself keycodes
155 as keys and executable values or action names as values (this mechanism can
156 be nested ad infinitum), to implement keystroke chains in the Emacs style.
160 /* bind ctrl-f to the 'seek' action */
161 mp.keycodes['ctrl-f'] = 'seek';
163 /* bind F5 to an anonymous subroutine */
164 mp.keycodes['f5'] = sub (d) {
165 mp.insert(d, "<form action = 'post'></form>");
168 /* bind Ctrl-x Ctrl-f to 'open', and
169 Ctrl-x Ctrl-s to 'save' */
170 mp.keycodes['ctrl-x'] = {
178 Actions are defined in the `mp.actions' hash. Each key contain the name of
179 the action, as `seek' or `move_up'. Each value contain an executable
180 value that accepts a document as the only argument.
182 mp.actions['sync'] = sub (d) {
183 /* save all modified documents */
184 foreach (local d, grep(sub (e) { e.txt.mod; }, mp.docs))
191 Action descriptions are strings stored in the `mp.actdesc' hash. Each key
192 contain the name of the action and each value the translatable string for
193 human consuming and will be used in the menu.
197 mp.actdesc['seek'] = LL("Search text...");
198 mp.actdesc['seek_next'] = LL("Search next");
199 mp.actdesc['sync'] = LL("Save modified texts");
204 The menu is stored in the `mp.menu' structure. The menu is an array of
205 dropdown menu definitions. Each dropdown menu is a two-element array
206 containing a string for the label (File, Edit, etc.) and another array of
207 action names (keys to `mp.actions'). See the `mp_core.mpsl' source file
213 If a non-obstrusive message must be notified to the user, the `mp.message'
214 can be set and the message will be shown in the status line until a
215 specified time is reached. This structure is a hash containing:
217 * string: The string to be shown in the status line.
218 * timeout: The time when the string will stop being showed.
222 /* show a message for 4 seconds */
224 'string' => "Unknown keystroke",
225 'timeout' => time() + 4
231 The clipboard is stored in the `mp.clipboard' array, and it's a simple
232 array of lines. Each copy and paste operation manipulates this.
235 Angel Ortega <angel@triptico.com>