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railwaycat / Emacs_starter.pl

Last active 2013-03-08

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
# Emacs starter for Emacs mac port
 
# Thanks to Aquamacs Project and David Reitter
 
my $args = "";
my $tmpfiles = "";
 
for my $f (@ARGV) {
  $args .= '"'.$f.'" ';
  $tmpfiles .= '"'.$f.'" ' if (! -e $f);
}
 
system("touch $args") if ($tmpfiles);
 
system("open -a /Applications/Emacs.app $args");
 
# delay deletion because AE drag&drop doesn't work with non-existing documents
system("(sleep 3; rm $tmpfiles) &") if ($tmpfiles);
 
exit;