From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: some dired hints should be background jobs
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:33:00 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303030033.SAA07827@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877kbh9v5q.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (message from John Wiegley on Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:00:01 -0700)
John Wiegley wrote:
Yep, that's exactly what I mean. On some Windows shells you can use
"start", but not all. In fact, I don't believe there is any common
way of backgrounding a job that gets run via shell invocation.
This could mean that "&" is just a UNIX(ish) thing.
As long as MS Windows would understand the Elisp function
`start-process' and would also understand Elisp's process filter and
sentinel machinery, the command that I have privately bound to
M-RETURN in dired should work on MS windows. (That is, launch an
asynchronous process.) Again, I could rewrite that command to be
suitable for inclusion in emacs, if there were interest in that. For
GNU/Linux and UNIX users the only advantage over "xpdf * &" would be
that you only get an Async buffer if there is actual output and that,
if so, you can kill that buffer without killing the process. I
personally wrote the command because I got fed up with these empty
Async buffers popping up, but I do not know whether that necessarily
annoys other people as much as it does me.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-03 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-01 3:41 some dired hints should be background jobs Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-02 22:10 ` John Wiegley
2003-03-02 23:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-03 0:00 ` John Wiegley
2003-03-03 0:33 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2003-03-03 1:16 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-03 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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