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- ;;; resume.el --- process command line args from within a suspended Emacs job
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Author: Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu>
- ;; Adapted-By: ESR
- ;; Keywords: processes
-
- ;; 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 1, 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; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
- ;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; Theory: the first time you start Emacs, command line arguments are
- ;; handled normally. Then, you suspend your emacs job. When you want to edit
- ;; something else, you type "emacs filename" as usual, but instead of
- ;; starting a new emacs job, the old job is resumed instead, and the command
- ;; line arguments are placed in a file where the old emacs job looks for
- ;; them.
-
- ;; 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, of course):
- ;;
- ;;# The following line could be just EMACS_CMD=emacs, but this depends on
- ;;# your site.
- ;;if (! $?EMACS_CMD) set EMACS_CMD=emacs
- ;;set JOBS_FILE=/tmp/jobs.$USER.$$
- ;;set ARGS_FILE=~/.emacs_args
- ;;set STOP_PATT='^\[[0-9]*\] *[ +-] Stopped ............ '
- ;;set SUNVIEW_CMD='emacstool -nw -f emacstool-init -f server-start'
- ;;set X_CMD=\'\''$EMACS_CMD -i -f server-start'
- ;;alias emacs \
- ;;' \\
- ;; jobs >! "$JOBS_FILE" \\
- ;; && grep "$STOP_PATT$EMACS_CMD" "$JOBS_FILE" >& /dev/null \\
- ;; && echo `pwd` \!* >! "$ARGS_FILE" && ""fg %$EMACS_CMD \\
- ;;|| if (! -e ~/.emacs_server || -f ~/.emacs_server) set status=1 \\
- ;; && emacsclient \!* \\
- ;;|| @ status=1 - $?DISPLAY && eval "$X_CMD -i \!* &" \\
- ;;|| @ status=1 - $?WINDOW_PARENT && eval "$SUNVIEW_CMD \!* &" \\
- ;;|| ""$EMACS_CMD -nw \!* \\
- ;;'
- ;;
- ;; The alias works as follows:
- ;; 1. If there is a suspended Emacs job 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 GNU Emacs process in the
- ;; background as an X client.
- ;; 4. Else if the WINDOW_PARENT environment variable is set, presume we
- ;; are running under SunView and start an emacstool process in the
- ;; background.
- ;; 5. Else start a regular Emacs process.
- ;;
- ;; Notes:
- ;; 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 name ~/.emacs_args.
- ;; The "-nw" switch to Emacs means no windowing system.
-
- ;; Insert this in your .emacs file:
- ;;(add-hook 'suspend-hook 'resume-suspend-hook)
-
- ;; Finally, put the rest in a file named "resume.el" in a lisp library
- ;; directory.
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- (defvar resume-emacs-args-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs_args")
- "*This file is where arguments are placed for a suspended emacs job.")
-
- (defvar resume-emacs-args-buffer " *Command Line Args*"
- "Buffer that is used by resume-process-args.")
-
- (defun resume-process-args ()
- "Handler for command line args given when Emacs is resumed."
- (let ((start-buffer (current-buffer))
- (args-buffer (get-buffer-create resume-emacs-args-buffer))
- length args)
- (unwind-protect
- (progn
- (set-buffer args-buffer)
- (erase-buffer)
- ;; get the contents of resume-emacs-args-file
- (condition-case ()
- (let ((result (insert-file-contents resume-emacs-args-file)))
- (setq length (car (cdr result))))
- ;; the file doesn't exist, ergo no arguments
- (file-error
- (erase-buffer)
- (setq length 0)))
- (if (<= length 0)
- (setq args nil)
- ;; get the arguments from the buffer
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (while (not (eobp))
- (skip-chars-forward " \t\n")
- (let ((begin (point)))
- (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
- (setq args (cons (buffer-substring begin (point)) args)))
- (skip-chars-forward " \t\n"))
- ;; arguments are now in reverse order
- (setq args (nreverse args))
- ;; make sure they're not read again
- (erase-buffer))
- (resume-write-buffer-to-file (current-buffer) resume-emacs-args-file)
- ;; if nothing was in buffer, args will be null
- (or (null args)
- (setq default-directory (file-name-as-directory (car args))
- args (cdr args)))
- ;; actually process the arguments
- (command-line-1 args))
- ;; If the command line args don't result in a find-file, the
- ;; buffer will be left in 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) args-buffer)
- (set-buffer start-buffer)))))
-
- ;;;###autoload
- (defun resume-suspend-hook ()
- "Clear out the file used for transmitting args when Emacs resumes."
- (save-excursion
- (set-buffer (get-buffer-create resume-emacs-args-buffer))
- (erase-buffer)
- (resume-write-buffer-to-file (current-buffer) resume-emacs-args-file)))
-
- (defun resume-write-buffer-to-file (buffer file)
- "Writes the contents of BUFFER into FILE, if permissions allow."
- (if (not (file-writable-p file))
- (error "No permission to write file %s" file))
- (save-excursion
- (set-buffer buffer)
- (clear-visited-file-modtime)
- (save-restriction
- (widen)
- (write-region (point-min) (point-max) file nil 'quiet))
- (set-buffer-modified-p nil)))
-
- ;;; resume.el ends here
-