From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: [gmane.emacs.help] emacs waiting for external program to exit Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:07:57 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189671006 15406 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2007 08:10:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:10:06 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 10:10:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IVjlw-00057J-VX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:10:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVjlw-0000uN-Bk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:10:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVjlu-0000tN-QA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVjlt-0000s6-FN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVjlt-0000rw-A8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVjls-0001vV-Tq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IVjlk-0007EO-Ko for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:09:48 +0200 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:09:48 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:09:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.50 (20070901) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jdAwpX/5fDN/0k5xPX++wcm6oWA= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16549 Archived-At: --=-=-= I posted this as a question to emacs-help. It looks like the behavior is wrong and thus I post it here. N.B. there is a solution posted in article: <87abrrx817.fsf@gmail.com> by William Xu HTH, Leo --=-=-= Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs waiting for external program to exit Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:20:05 +0100 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.50 (20070901) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi there, If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that program exits. Is there anyway I can't avoid that i.e. I'd like to be able to continue using the same Emacs session? Thanks, -- .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ] :. => "(require 'cl) considered harmful" considered harmful => http://dto.freeshell.org/blog/blog-2007-09-07-2323.html --=-=-=--