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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 2, 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, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; The purpose of this library is to handle command line arguments
- ;; when you resume an existing Emacs job.
-
- ;; In order to use it, you must put this code in your .emacs file.
-
- ;; (add-hook 'suspend-hook 'resume-suspend-hook)
- ;; (add-hook 'suspend-resume-hook 'resume-process-args)
-
- ;; You can't get the benefit of this library by using the `emacs' command,
- ;; since that always starts a new Emacs job. Instead you must use a
- ;; command called `edit' which knows how to resume an existing Emacs job
- ;; if you have one, or start a new Emacs job if you don't have one.
-
- ;; To define the `edit' command, run the script etc/emacs.csh (if you use CSH),
- ;; or etc/emacs.bash if you use BASH. You would normally do this in your
- ;; login script.
-
- ;; Stephan Gildea suggested bug fix (gildea@bbn.com).
- ;; Ideas from Michael DeCorte and other people.
-
- ;;; 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
- (command-line-default-directory default-directory))
- (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 command-line-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)))
-
- (provide 'resume)
-
- ;;; resume.el ends here
-