#!/usr/bin/env bash # capture-guard — detect live org-capture buffers visiting a target file # before a workflow edits that file on disk. # # Editing a file on disk while Emacs has an indirect org-capture buffer # cloned from it reverts the base buffer underneath the capture, wedging it: # the capture can no longer finalize cleanly with C-c C-c, and a freshly-typed # item can be lost or written back against post-edit content. inbox-zero # Phase D edits ~/org/roam/inbox.org, the file Craig captures into constantly, # so it calls this guard first. See claude-rules/emacs.md. # # Usage: capture-guard [TARGET_FILE] (default ~/org/roam/inbox.org) # exit 0 — safe to edit: no Emacs, daemon unreachable, or no capture buffer # visits TARGET_FILE. # exit 1 — a live capture buffer visits TARGET_FILE; its name(s) printed to # stdout, comma-separated. # # Conservative by construction: any uncertainty (no Emacs, query failure) # resolves to "safe," so the guard never blocks a workflow that would have # been fine. It only stops the one case it can positively confirm. set -euo pipefail TARGET="${1:-$HOME/org/roam/inbox.org}" # No Emacs to collide with → nothing to guard against. command -v emacsclient >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0 emacsclient -e t >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0 # Names of capture buffers whose base buffer visits TARGET. file-equal-p # normalizes symlinks and ./.. so the match survives path spelling; it also # returns nil when TARGET doesn't exist, which collapses to "safe" below. lisp='(let ((target (expand-file-name "'"$TARGET"'"))) (mapconcat (function buffer-name) (seq-filter (lambda (b) (and (string-prefix-p "CAPTURE" (buffer-name b)) (let* ((base (or (buffer-base-buffer b) b)) (f (buffer-file-name base))) (and f (file-equal-p f target))))) (buffer-list)) ","))' bufs="$(emacsclient -e "$lisp" 2>/dev/null)" || exit 0 # emacsclient prints an elisp string with surrounding double quotes: # "" for none, "CAPTURE-inbox.org,..." for matches. Strip them. bufs="${bufs#\"}" bufs="${bufs%\"}" if [ -n "$bufs" ]; then echo "$bufs" exit 1 fi exit 0