Old
jokes aside, I do use
Emacs on WinXP as a near complete
replacement for explorer and as a very advanced replacement for the command line utilty
SlickRun.
Overall I "live" in
Emacs although I use
Vim as my main text editor.
One problem I ran into was launching a
cygwin terminal from Emacs. The terminal would not function properly so, for instance,
mutt would not run correctly.
The problem was that Emacs would set the
TERM and
SHELL variables before launching a program (using
w32-shell-execute) so many terminal applications would run crippled.
This then, is a small wrapper utility that un-sets the
TERM and
SHELL variables before launching a terminal or program so allowing me to launch everything without ever leaving Emacs or touching the mouse.
Nirvanaaaa!
emacs-run.c
/**
* emacs-run.c
* Launch a WinXP executable from within EMACS using (w32-shell-execute ...)
* (after unsetting the SHELL and TERM variables).
*
* http://the-brown-dragon.com/
*/
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501 /* To use XP functions. */
#include <windows.h>
/**
* Initializes the size of the launched window
* to a reasonble value that I like.
*/
void
_set_fullscreensize (LPSTARTUPINFO si)
{
HWND dw;
RECT dr;
dw = GetDesktopWindow ();
GetClientRect (dw, &dr);
si->dwFlags |= STARTF_USESIZE;
si->dwXSize = 640;
si->dwYSize = dr.bottom - dr.top;
}
/**
* Main entry point.
*/
int WINAPI
WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{
STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
char cmd[1024];
ZeroMemory (&si, sizeof (si));
si.cb = sizeof (si);
_set_fullscreensize (&si);
ZeroMemory (&pi, sizeof (pi));
strncpy (cmd, lpCmdLine, sizeof (cmd) - 1);
SetEnvironmentVariable ("SHELL", NULL);
SetEnvironmentVariable ("TERM", NULL);
if (!CreateProcess (NULL,
cmd,
NULL,
NULL,
FALSE,
CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE,
NULL,
NULL,
&si,
&pi)) {
char e[1024];
sprintf (e, "emacs-run.exe: CreateProcess Failed! (%d)", GetLastError ());
MessageBox (NULL, e, "emacs-run", MB_ICONERROR);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
WaitForSingleObject (pi.hProcess, INFINITE);
CloseHandle (pi.hProcess);
CloseHandle (pi.hThread);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
/**
* NB
* - Will not handle very long command lines (should not be needed
* for a simple launcher).
* - Compiles with: cl /DWIN32 emacs-run.c user32.lib
*/
