;; process command line arguments from within a suspended emacs job ;; 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)))))