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+;;; boxes.el --- use the boxes to comment regions
+
+;; Copyright (C) 1999 Jason L. Shiffer
+
+;; Author: Jason L. Shiffer <jshiffer@zerotao.com>
+;; Maintainer: jshiffer@zerotao.com
+;; Keywords: extensions
+;; Created: 1999-10-30
+
+;; $Id: boxes.el,v 1.0 1999/10/30 02:45:06 jshiffer Exp $
+
+;; This program 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 2, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+;;
+;; This program 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 this program; if not, you can either send email to this
+;; program's maintainer or write to: The Free Software Foundation,
+;; Inc.; 675 Massachusetts Avenue; Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; This program provides an interface to the boxes application which can be found at
+;; http://home.pages.de/~jensen/boxes/
+
+;; To use this, put it somewhere in your load path and add the following
+;; lines to your .emacs:
+;;
+;;          (autoload 'boxes-command-on-region "boxes" nil t)
+;;          (autoload 'boxes-remove "boxes" nil t)
+;;          (autoload 'boxes-create "boxes" nil t)
+;;          (global-set-key "\C-cq" 'boxes-create)
+;;          (global-set-key "\C-cr" 'boxes-remove)
+
+;;; Code:
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar boxes-command "boxes"
+  "The boxes command.")
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar boxes-types-alist '(("c" . "c")
+			  ("parchment" . "parchment")
+			  ("columns" . "columns")
+			  ("whirly" . "whirly")
+			  ("scroll" . "scroll")
+			  ("simple" . "simple")
+			  ("c-cmt" . "c-cmt")
+			  ("c-cmt2" . "c-cmt2")
+			  ("html" . "html")
+			  ("shell" . "shell")
+			  ("nuke" . "nuke")
+			  ("diamonds" . "diamonds")
+			  ("mouse" . "mouse")
+			  ("sunset" . "sunset")
+			  ("boy" . "boy")
+			  ("girl" . "girl")
+			  ("tjc" . "tjc")
+			  ("netdata" . "netdata")
+			  ("xes" . "xes")
+			  ("dog" . "dog")
+			  ("cat" . "cat")
+			  ("capgirl" . "capgirl")
+			  ("santa" . "santa")
+			  ("spring" . "spring")
+			  ("stark2" . "stark2")
+			  ("stark1" . "stark1")
+			  ("peek" . "peek")
+			  ("java-cmt" . "java-cmt")
+			  ("pound-cmt" . "pound-cmt")
+			  ("html-cmt" . "html-cmt")
+			  ("vim-cmt" . "vim-cmt")
+			  ("right" . "right")
+			  ("headline" . "headline"))
+  "Association of types available to the current boxes implementation.")
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'boxes-types-alist)
+
+(defvar boxes-history (list nil))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar boxes-default-type "c-cmt2"
+  "The default type of comment.")
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'boxes-default-type)
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar boxes-args ""
+  "Arguments to the boxes command.")
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'boxes-args)
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun boxes-create ()
+  (interactive)
+  (boxes-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end) boxes-default-type)
+  "Automagicly create a new box around the region based on the default type.")
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun boxes-remove ()
+  (interactive)
+  (boxes-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end) boxes-default-type 1)
+  "Automagicly remove a new box around the region based on the default type.")
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun boxes-command-on-region (start end type &optional remove)
+  (interactive (let ((string
+		      (completing-read (format "Box type (%s): " boxes-default-type)
+				       boxes-types-alist nil t nil 'boxes-history boxes-default-type)))
+		(list (region-beginning) (region-end) 
+		      string
+		      current-prefix-arg)))
+  (if type
+      (setq boxes-default-type type))
+  (let ((command-string
+	 (concat boxes-command  
+		 (if remove
+		     (concat boxes-args " -r "))
+		 (if type
+		     (concat boxes-args " -d " type)))))
+    (shell-command-on-region start end command-string nil 1 nil)))
+
+(provide 'boxes)
+;;; boxes.el ends here