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- ;;; resume.el --- process command line args from within a suspended Emacs job
- ;; Keywords: processes
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; This file is not yet part of GNU Emacs, but soon will be.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor
- ;; accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it
- ;; or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all,
- ;; unless he says so in writing. Refer to the GNU Emacs General Public
- ;; License for full details.
-
- ;; Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
- ;; GNU Emacs, but only under the conditions described in the
- ;; GNU Emacs General Public License. A copy of this license is
- ;; supposed to have been given to you along with GNU Emacs so you
- ;; can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a
- ;; file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice
- ;; and this notice must be preserved on all copies.
- ;;
- ;; by Joe Wells
- ;; jbw@bucsf.bu.edu
- ;; joew@uswat.uswest.com (maybe, ... the mailer there sucks)
-
- ;; Stephan Gildea suggested bug fix (gildea@bbn.com).
- ;; Ideas from Michael DeCorte and other people.
-
- ;; For csh users, insert the following alias in your .cshrc file
- ;; (after removing the leading double semicolons):
- ;;
- ;;# The following line could be just EMACS=emacs, but this depends on
- ;;# your site.
- ;;set EMACS=emacs
- ;;set EMACS_PATTERN="^\[[0-9]\] . Stopped ............ $EMACS"
- ;;alias emacs \
- ;;' \\
- ;; jobs >! /tmp/jobs$$ \\
- ;; && grep "$EMACS_PATTERN" /tmp/jobs$$ >& /dev/null \\
- ;; && echo `pwd` \!* >! ~/.emacs_args && eval "%$EMACS" \\
- ;;|| test -S ~/.emacs_server && emacsclient \!* \\
- ;;|| test "$?DISPLAY" = 1 && eval "\$EMACS -i \!* &" \\
- ;;|| test "$?WINDOW_PARENT" = 1 && eval "emacstool -f emacstool-init \!* &" \\
- ;;|| eval "\$EMACS -nw \!*"'
- ;;
- ;; The alias works as follows:
- ;; 1. If there is a suspended emacs jobs that is a child of the
- ;; current shell, place its arguments in the ~/.emacs_args file and
- ;; resume it.
- ;; 2. Else if the ~/.emacs_server socket has been created, presume an
- ;; emacs server is running and attempt to connect to it. If no emacs
- ;; server is listening on the socket, this will fail.
- ;; 3. Else if the DISPLAY environment variable is set, presume we are
- ;; running under X Windows and start a new X Gnu Emacs process in the
- ;; background.
- ;; 4. Else if the WINDOW_PARENT environment variable is set, presume we
- ;; are running under Sunview and Suntools and start an emacstool
- ;; process in the background.
- ;; 5. Else start a regular emacs process.
- ;;
- ;; Notes:
- ;; "test -S" checks if a unix domain socket by that name exists.
- ;; The output of the "jobs" command is not piped directly into "grep"
- ;; because that would run the "jobs" command in a subshell.
- ;; Before resuming a suspended emacs, the current directory and all
- ;; command line arguments are placed in a file.
- ;; The command to run emacs is always preceded by a \ to prevent
- ;; possible alias loops.
- ;; The "-nw" switch in the last line is is undocumented, and it means
- ;; no windowing system.
-
- (setq suspend-resume-hook 'resume-process-args)
- (setq suspend-hook 'resume-preparation)
-
- (defvar emacs-args-file "~/.emacs_args"
- "*This file is where arguments are placed for a suspended emacs job.")
-
- (defun resume-preparation ()
- (condition-case ()
- (delete-file emacs-args-file)
- (error nil)))
-
- (defun resume-process-args ()
- "This should be called from inside of suspend-resume-hook.
- Grabs the contents of the file whose name is stored in
- emacs-args-file, and processes these arguments like command line options."
- (let ((resume-start-buffer (current-buffer))
- (resume-args-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Command Line Args*"))
- resume-args)
- (unwind-protect
- (progn
- (set-buffer resume-args-buffer)
- (erase-buffer)
- ;; Get the contents of emacs-args-file, then delete the file.
- (condition-case ()
- (progn
- (insert-file-contents emacs-args-file)
- (delete-file emacs-args-file))
- ;; The file doesn't exist or we can't delete it, ergo no arguments.
- ;; (If we can't delete it now, we probably couldn't delete it
- ;; before suspending, and that implies it may be vestigial.)
- (file-error (erase-buffer)))
- ;; Get the arguments from the buffer.
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (while (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t\n") (not (eobp)))
- (setq resume-args
- (cons (buffer-substring (point)
- (progn
- (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
- (point)))
- resume-args)))
- (cond (resume-args
- ;; Arguments are now in reverse order.
- (setq resume-args (nreverse resume-args))
- ;; The "first argument" is really a default directory to use
- ;; while processing the rest of the arguments.
- (setq default-directory (concat (car resume-args) "/"))
- ;; Actually process the arguments.
- (command-line-1 (cdr resume-args)))))
- ;; If the command line args don't result in a find-file, the
- ;; buffer will be left in resume-args-buffer. So we change back to the
- ;; original buffer. The reason I don't just use
- ;; (let ((default-directory foo))
- ;; (command-line-1 args))
- ;; in the context of the original buffer is because let does not
- ;; work properly with buffer-local variables.
- (if (eq (current-buffer) resume-args-buffer)
- (set-buffer resume-start-buffer)))))
-