;;; org-babel-comint.el --- org-babel functions for interaction with comint buffers

;; Copyright (C) 2009 Eric Schulte

;; Author: Eric Schulte
;; Keywords: literate programming, reproducible research, comint
;; Homepage: http://orgmode.org
;; Version: 0.01

;;; License:

;; This program 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 3, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;;
;; This program 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

;;; Commentary:

;; These functions build on comint to ease the sending and receiving
;; of commands and results from comint buffers.
;;
;; Note that the buffers in this file are analogous to sessions in
;; org-babel at large.

;;; Code:
(require 'org-babel)
(require 'comint)

(defun org-babel-comint-buffer-livep (buffer)
  (and (buffer-live-p buffer) (get-buffer buffer) (get-buffer-process buffer)))

(defmacro org-babel-comint-in-buffer (buffer &rest body)
  "Check BUFFER with `org-babel-comint-buffer-livep' then execute
body inside the protection of `save-window-excursion' and
`save-match-data'."
  (declare (indent 1))
  `(save-window-excursion
     (save-match-data
       (unless (org-babel-comint-buffer-livep buffer)
         (error (format "buffer %s doesn't exist or has no process" buffer)))
       (set-buffer buffer)
       ,@body)))

(provide 'org-babel-comint)
;;; org-babel-comint.el ends here