guix/emacs/guix-external.el

;;; guix-external.el --- External programs  -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Copyright © 2015 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>

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;;; Commentary:

;; This file provides auxiliary code for running external programs.

;;; Code:

(require 'guix-config)

(defgroup guix-external nil
  "Settings for external programs."
  :group 'guix)

(defcustom guix-guile-program guix-config-guile-program
  "Name of the 'guile' executable used for Guix REPL.
May be either a string (the name of the executable) or a list of
strings of the form:

  (NAME . ARGS)

Where ARGS is a list of arguments to the guile program."
  :type 'string
  :group 'guix-external)

(defcustom guix-dot-program
  (if (file-name-absolute-p guix-config-dot-program)
      guix-config-dot-program
    (executable-find "dot"))
  "Name of the 'dot' executable."
  :type 'string
  :group 'guix-external)

(defcustom guix-dot-default-arguments
  '("-Tpng")
  "Default arguments for 'dot' program."
  :type '(repeat string)
  :group 'guix-external)

(defcustom guix-dot-file-name-function #'guix-png-file-name
  "Function used to define a file name of a temporary 'dot' file.
The function is called without arguments."
  :type '(choice (function-item guix-png-file-name)
                 (function :tag "Other function"))
  :group 'guix-external)

(defun guix-dot-arguments (output-file &rest args)
  "Return a list of dot arguments for writing a graph into OUTPUT-FILE.
If ARGS is nil, use `guix-dot-default-arguments'."
  (or guix-dot-program
      (error (concat "Couldn't find 'dot'.\n"
                     "Set guix-dot-program to a proper value")))
  (apply #'list
         guix-dot-program
         (concat "-o" output-file)
         (or args guix-dot-default-arguments)))

(defun guix-dot-file-name ()
  "Call `guix-dot-file-name-function'."
  (funcall guix-dot-file-name-function))

(defun guix-png-file-name ()
  "Return '.png' file name in the `temporary-file-directory'."
  (concat (make-temp-name
           (concat (file-name-as-directory temporary-file-directory)
                   "guix-emacs-graph-"))
          ".png"))

(provide 'guix-external)

;;; guix-external.el ends here