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+;;; gnus-sync.el --- synchronization facility for Gnus
+
+;; Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+;; Author: Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]>
+;; Keywords: news synchronization nntp nnrss
+
+;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+;; GNU Emacs 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 of the License, or
+;; (at your option) any later version.
+
+;; GNU Emacs 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 GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; This is the gnus-sync.el package.
+
+;; Put this in your startup file (~/.gnus.el for instance)
+
+;; possibilities for gnus-sync-backend:
+;; Tramp over SSH: /ssh:user@host:/path/to/filename
+;; Tramp over IMAP: /imaps:[email protected]:/INBOX.test/filename
+;; ...or any other file Tramp and Emacs can handle...
+
+;; (setq gnus-sync-backend "/remote:/path.gpg" ; will use Tramp+EPA if loaded
+;; gnus-sync-global-vars `(gnus-newsrc-last-checked-date)
+;; gnus-sync-newsrc-groups `("nntp" "nnrss")
+;; gnus-sync-newsrc-offsets `(2 3))
+
+;; TODO:
+
+;; - after gnus-sync-read, the message counts are wrong
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
+(require 'gnus)
+(require 'gnus-start)
+(require 'gnus-util)
+
+(defgroup gnus-sync nil
+ "The Gnus synchronization facility."
+ :version "24.1"
+ :group 'gnus)
+
+(defcustom gnus-sync-newsrc-groups `("nntp" "nnrss")
+ "List of groups to be synchronized in the gnus-newsrc-alist.
+The group names are matched, they don't have to be fully
+qualified. Typically you would choose all of these. That's the
+default because there is no active sync backend by default, so
+this setting is harmless until the user chooses a sync backend."
+ :group 'gnus-sync
+ :type '(repeat regexp))
+
+(defcustom gnus-sync-newsrc-offsets '(2 3)
+ "List of per-group data to be synchronized."
+ :group 'gnus-sync
+ :type '(set (const :tag "Read ranges" 2)
+ (const :tag "Marks" 3)))
+
+(defcustom gnus-sync-global-vars nil
+ "List of global variables to be synchronized.
+You may want to sync `gnus-newsrc-last-checked-date' but pretty
+much any symbol is fair game. You could additionally sync
+`gnus-newsrc-alist', `gnus-server-alist', `gnus-topic-topology',
+and `gnus-topic-alist' to cover all the variables in
+newsrc.eld (except for `gnus-format-specs' which should not be
+synchronized, I believe). Also see `gnus-variable-list'."
+ :group 'gnus-sync
+ :type '(repeat (choice (variable :tag "A known variable")
+ (symbol :tag "Any symbol"))))
+
+(defcustom gnus-sync-backend nil
+ "The synchronization backend."
+ :group 'gnus-sync
+ :type '(radio (const :format "None" nil)
+ (string :tag "Sync to a file")))
+
+(defvar gnus-sync-newsrc-loader nil
+ "Carrier for newsrc data")
+
+(defun gnus-sync-save ()
+"Save the Gnus sync data to the backend."
+ (interactive)
+ (cond
+ ((stringp gnus-sync-backend)
+ (gnus-message 7 "gnus-sync: saving to backend %s" gnus-sync-backend)
+ ;; populate gnus-sync-newsrc-loader from all but the first dummy
+ ;; entry in gnus-newsrc-alist whose group matches any of the
+ ;; gnus-sync-newsrc-groups
+ ;; TODO: keep the old contents for groups we don't have!
+ (let ((gnus-sync-newsrc-loader
+ (loop for entry in (cdr gnus-newsrc-alist)
+ when (gnus-grep-in-list
+ (car entry) ;the group name
+ gnus-sync-newsrc-groups)
+ collect (cons (car entry)
+ (mapcar (lambda (offset)
+ (cons offset (nth offset entry)))
+ gnus-sync-newsrc-offsets)))))
+ (with-temp-file gnus-sync-backend
+ (progn
+ (let ((coding-system-for-write gnus-ding-file-coding-system)
+ (standard-output (current-buffer)))
+ (princ (format ";; -*- mode:emacs-lisp; coding: %s; -*-\n"
+ gnus-ding-file-coding-system))
+ (princ ";; Gnus sync data v. 0.0.1\n")
+ (let* ((print-quoted t)
+ (print-readably t)
+ (print-escape-multibyte nil)
+ (print-escape-nonascii t)
+ (print-length nil)
+ (print-level nil)
+ (print-circle nil)
+ (print-escape-newlines t)
+ (variables (cons 'gnus-sync-newsrc-loader
+ gnus-sync-global-vars))
+ variable)
+ (while variables
+ (if (and (boundp (setq variable (pop variables)))
+ (symbol-value variable))
+ (progn
+ (princ "\n(setq ")
+ (princ (symbol-name variable))
+ (princ " '")
+ (prin1 (symbol-value variable))
+ (princ ")\n"))
+ (princ "\n;;; skipping empty variable ")
+ (princ (symbol-name variable)))))
+ (gnus-message
+ 7
+ "gnus-sync: stored variables %s and %d groups in %s"
+ gnus-sync-global-vars
+ (length gnus-sync-newsrc-loader)
+ gnus-sync-backend)
+
+ ;; Idea from Dan Christensen <[email protected]>
+ ;; Save the .eld file with extra line breaks.
+ (gnus-message 8 "gnus-sync: adding whitespace to %s"
+ gnus-sync-backend)
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (while (re-search-forward "^(\\|(\\\"" nil t)
+ (replace-match "\n\\&" t))
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (while (re-search-forward " $" nil t)
+ (replace-match "" t t))))))))
+ ;; the pass-through case: gnus-sync-backend is not a known choice
+ (nil)))
+
+(defun gnus-sync-read ()
+"Load the Gnus sync data from the backend."
+ (interactive)
+ (when gnus-sync-backend
+ (gnus-message 7 "gnus-sync: loading from backend %s" gnus-sync-backend)
+ (cond ((stringp gnus-sync-backend)
+ ;; read data here...
+ (if (or debug-on-error debug-on-quit)
+ (load gnus-sync-backend nil t)
+ (condition-case var
+ (load gnus-sync-backend nil t)
+ (error
+ (error "Error in %s: %s" gnus-sync-backend (cadr var)))))
+ (let ((valid-count 0)
+ invalid-groups)
+ (dolist (node gnus-sync-newsrc-loader)
+ (if (gnus-gethash (car node) gnus-newsrc-hashtb)
+ (progn
+ (incf valid-count)
+ (loop for store in (cdr node)
+ do (setf (nth (car store)
+ (assoc (car node) gnus-newsrc-alist))
+ (cdr store))))
+ (push (car node) invalid-groups)))
+ (gnus-message
+ 7
+ "gnus-sync: loaded %d groups (out of %d) from %s"
+ valid-count (length gnus-sync-newsrc-loader)
+ gnus-sync-backend)
+ (when invalid-groups
+ (gnus-message
+ 7
+ "gnus-sync: skipped %d groups (out of %d) from %s"
+ (length invalid-groups)
+ (length gnus-sync-newsrc-loader)
+ gnus-sync-backend)
+ (gnus-message 9 "gnus-sync: skipped groups: %s"
+ (mapconcat 'identity invalid-groups ", ")))))
+ (nil))
+ ;; make the hashtable again because the newsrc-alist may have been modified
+ (when gnus-sync-newsrc-offsets
+ (gnus-message 9 "gnus-sync: remaking the newsrc hashtable")
+ (gnus-make-hashtable-from-newsrc-alist))))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun gnus-sync-initialize ()
+"Initialize the Gnus sync facility."
+ (interactive)
+ (gnus-message 5 "Initializing the sync facility")
+ (gnus-sync-install-hooks))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun gnus-sync-install-hooks ()
+ "Install the sync hooks."
+ (interactive)
+ ;; (add-hook 'gnus-get-new-news-hook 'gnus-sync-read)
+ (add-hook 'gnus-save-newsrc-hook 'gnus-sync-save)
+ (add-hook 'gnus-read-newsrc-el-hook 'gnus-sync-read))
+
+(defun gnus-sync-unload-hook ()
+ "Uninstall the sync hooks."
+ (interactive)
+ ;; (remove-hook 'gnus-get-new-news-hook 'gnus-sync-read)
+ (remove-hook 'gnus-save-newsrc-hook 'gnus-sync-save)
+ (remove-hook 'gnus-read-newsrc-el-hook 'gnus-sync-read))
+
+(add-hook 'gnus-sync-unload-hook 'gnus-sync-unload-hook)
+
+;; this is harmless by default, until the gnus-sync-backend is set
+(gnus-sync-initialize)
+
+(provide 'gnus-sync)
+
+;;; gnus-sync.el ends here