1 /* runemacs --- Simple program to start Emacs with its console window hidden.
3 Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
7 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 Simple program to start Emacs with its console window hidden.
24 This program is provided purely for convenience, since most users will
25 use Emacs in windowing (GUI) mode, and will not want to have an extra
26 console window lying around. */
29 You may want to define this if you want to be able to install updated
30 emacs binaries even when other users are using the current version.
31 The problem with some file servers (notably Novell) is that an open
32 file cannot be overwritten, deleted, or even renamed. So if someone
33 is running emacs.exe already, you cannot install a newer version.
34 By defining CHOOSE_NEWEST_EXE, you can name your new emacs.exe
35 something else which matches "emacs*.exe", and runemacs will
36 automatically select the newest emacs executable in the bin directory.
37 (So you'll probably be able to delete the old version some hours/days
41 /* #define CHOOSE_NEWEST_EXE */
47 static void set_user_model_id (void);
50 WinMain (HINSTANCE hSelf
, HINSTANCE hPrev
, LPSTR cmdline
, int nShow
)
53 SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sec_attrs
;
54 PROCESS_INFORMATION child
;
55 int wait_for_child
= FALSE
;
56 DWORD priority_class
= NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
;
60 char modname
[MAX_PATH
];
64 if (!GetModuleFileName (NULL
, modname
, MAX_PATH
))
66 if ((p
= strrchr (modname
, '\\')) == NULL
)
70 new_cmdline
= alloca (MAX_PATH
+ strlen (cmdline
) + 3);
71 /* Quote executable name in case of spaces in the path. */
73 strcpy (new_cmdline
+ 1, modname
);
75 #ifdef CHOOSE_NEWEST_EXE
77 /* Silly hack to allow new versions to be installed on
78 server even when current version is in use. */
80 char * best_name
= alloca (MAX_PATH
+ 1);
81 FILETIME best_time
= {0,0};
84 p
= new_cmdline
+ strlen (new_cmdline
);
85 strcpy (p
, "\\emacs*.exe\" ");
86 fh
= FindFirstFile (new_cmdline
, &wfd
);
87 if (fh
== INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
)
91 if (wfd
.ftLastWriteTime
.dwHighDateTime
> best_time
.dwHighDateTime
92 || (wfd
.ftLastWriteTime
.dwHighDateTime
== best_time
.dwHighDateTime
93 && wfd
.ftLastWriteTime
.dwLowDateTime
> best_time
.dwLowDateTime
))
95 best_time
= wfd
.ftLastWriteTime
;
96 strcpy (best_name
, wfd
.cFileName
);
99 while (FindNextFile (fh
, &wfd
));
102 strcpy (p
, best_name
);
106 strcat (new_cmdline
, "\\emacs.exe\" ");
109 /* Append original arguments if any; first look for arguments we
110 recognise (-wait, -high, and -low), and apply them ourselves. */
111 while (cmdline
[0] == '-' || cmdline
[0] == '/')
113 if (strncmp (cmdline
+1, "wait", 4) == 0)
115 wait_for_child
= TRUE
;
118 else if (strncmp (cmdline
+1, "high", 4) == 0)
120 priority_class
= HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS
;
123 else if (strncmp (cmdline
+1, "low", 3) == 0)
125 priority_class
= IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS
;
130 /* Look for next argument. */
131 while (*++cmdline
== ' ');
134 strcat (new_cmdline
, cmdline
);
136 /* Set emacs_dir variable if runemacs was in "%emacs_dir%\bin". */
137 if ((p
= strrchr (modname
, '\\')) && stricmp (p
, "\\bin") == 0)
140 for (p
= modname
; *p
; p
++)
141 if (*p
== '\\') *p
= '/';
142 SetEnvironmentVariable ("emacs_dir", modname
);
145 memset (&start
, 0, sizeof (start
));
146 start
.cb
= sizeof (start
);
147 start
.dwFlags
= STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
| STARTF_USECOUNTCHARS
;
148 start
.wShowWindow
= SW_HIDE
;
149 /* Ensure that we don't waste memory if the user has specified a huge
150 default screen buffer for command windows. */
151 start
.dwXCountChars
= 80;
152 start
.dwYCountChars
= 25;
154 sec_attrs
.nLength
= sizeof (sec_attrs
);
155 sec_attrs
.lpSecurityDescriptor
= NULL
;
156 sec_attrs
.bInheritHandle
= FALSE
;
158 if (CreateProcess (NULL
, new_cmdline
, &sec_attrs
, NULL
, TRUE
, priority_class
,
159 NULL
, NULL
, &start
, &child
))
163 WaitForSingleObject (child
.hProcess
, INFINITE
);
164 GetExitCodeProcess (child
.hProcess
, &ret_code
);
166 CloseHandle (child
.hThread
);
167 CloseHandle (child
.hProcess
);
171 return (int) ret_code
;
174 MessageBox (NULL
, "Could not start Emacs.", "Error", MB_ICONSTOP
);
179 set_user_model_id (void)
182 HRESULT (WINAPI
* set_user_model
) (wchar_t * id
);
184 /* On Windows 7 and later, we need to set the user model ID
185 to associate emacsclient launched files with Emacs frames
187 shell
= LoadLibrary ("shell32.dll");
191 = (void *) GetProcAddress (shell
,
192 "SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID");
194 /* If the function is defined, then we are running on Windows 7
195 or newer, and the UI uses this to group related windows
196 together. Since emacs, runemacs, emacsclient are related, we
197 want them grouped even though the executables are different,
198 so we need to set a consistent ID between them. */
200 set_user_model (L
"GNU.Emacs");