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1 ## Copyright (C) 2014 John W. Eaton |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at |
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8 ## your option) any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see |
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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18 |
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{output} =} open @var{file} |
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{output} =} open (@var{file}) |
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22 ## Open the file @var{file} in Octave or in an external application |
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23 ## based on the file type as determined by the file name extension. |
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24 ## |
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25 ## Recognized file types are |
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26 ## |
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27 ## @table @code |
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28 ## @item .m |
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29 ## Open file in the editor. |
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30 ## @item .mat |
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31 ## Load the file in the base workspace. |
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32 ## @item .exe |
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33 ## Execute the program (on Windows systems only). |
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34 ## @end table |
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35 ## |
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36 ## Other file types are opened in the appropriate external application. |
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37 ## @end deftypefn |
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38 |
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39 function output = open (file) |
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40 |
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41 if (nargin != 1) |
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42 print_usage (); |
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43 endif |
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44 |
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45 if (! ischar (file)) |
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46 error ("expecting argument to be a file name"); |
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47 endif |
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48 |
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49 [~, ~, ext] = fileparts (file); |
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50 |
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51 if (strcmpi (ext, ".m")) |
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52 edit (file); |
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53 elseif (strcmpi (ext, ".mat")) |
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54 if (nargout > 0) |
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55 output = load (file); |
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56 else |
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57 evalin ("base", sprintf ("load ('%s');", file)); |
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58 endif |
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59 elseif (any (strcmpi (ext, {".fig", ".mdl", ".slx", ".prj"}))) |
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60 error ("opening file type '%s' is not supported", ext); |
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61 elseif (strcmpi (ext, ".exe")) |
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62 if (ispc ()) |
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63 dos (file); |
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64 else |
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65 error ("executing .exe files is only supported on Windows systems"); |
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66 endif |
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67 else |
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68 open_with_system_app (file); |
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69 endif |
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70 |
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71 endfunction |
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72 |
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73 %% Test input validation |
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74 %!error open |
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75 %!error open (1) |
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76 %!error output = open (1) |
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77 |
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78 function open_with_system_app (file) |
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79 |
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80 if (ispc ()) |
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81 __w32_shell_execute__ (file); |
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82 else |
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83 ## FIXME: might not be xdg-open... |
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84 system (sprintf ("xdg-open %s 2> /dev/null", file), false, "async"); |
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85 endif |
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86 |
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87 endfunction |
