etc/emacs.bash

   1 # This defines a bash command named `edit' which contacts/resumes an
   2 # existing emacs or starts a new one if none exists.
   3 #
   4 # One way or another, any arguments are passed to emacs to specify files
   5 # (provided you have loaded `resume.el').
   6 #
   7 # This function assumes the emacs program is named `emacs' and is somewhere
   8 # in your load path.  If either of these is not true, the most portable
   9 # (and convenient) thing to do is to make an alias called emacs which
  10 # refers to the real program, e.g.
  11 #
  12 #        alias emacs=/usr/local/bin/gemacs
  13 #
  14 # Written by Noah Friedman.
  15
  16 function edit ()
  17 {
  18  local windowsys="${WINDOW_PARENT+sun}"
  19
  20  windowsys="${windowsys:-${DISPLAY+x}}"
  21
  22  if [ -n "${windowsys:+set}" ]; then
  23     # Do not just test if these files are sockets.  On some systems
  24     # ordinary files or fifos are used instead.  Just see if they exist.
  25     if [ -e "${HOME}/.emacs_server" -o -e "/tmp/esrv${UID}-"* ]; then
  26        emacsclient "$@"
  27        return $?
  28     else
  29        echo "edit: starting emacs in background..." 1>&2
  30     fi
  31
  32     case "${windowsys}" in
  33       x ) (emacs "$@" &) ;;
  34       sun ) (emacstool "$@" &) ;;
  35     esac
  36  else
  37     if jobs %emacs 2> /dev/null ; then
  38        echo "$(pwd)" "$@" >| ${HOME}/.emacs_args && fg %emacs
  39     else
  40        emacs "$@"
  41     fi
  42  fi
  43 }
  44
  45