From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: some dired hints should be background jobs
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 06:13:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2593-Mon03Mar2003061302+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877kbh9v5q.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (message from John Wiegley on Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:00:01 -0700)
> From: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:00:01 -0700
>
> > I know so little about MS Windows (I use GNU/Linux) that I do not
> > really understand the above. Do you mean we could not make "xpdf *
> > &" the default because MS Windows does not understand & and hence
> > it would not be portable? Does MS Windows have a notion of job
> > control? It must have a notion of asynchronous command since it is
> > a windowing system.
>
> Yep, that's exactly what I mean. On some Windows shells you can use
> "start", but not all.
Which ones don't support `start'? AFAIK, all of them do.
> In fact, I don't believe there is any common
> way of backgrounding a job that gets run via shell invocation.
Actually, I think this is the default on Windows: a GUI program
always opens its own window, and the shell that invoked it doesn't
wit for it. If not, you could use `start'.
> This could mean that "&" is just a UNIX(ish) thing.
That's true in the sense that the "&" syntax is not understood by
stock Windows shells.
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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
2003-03-03 1:16 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-03 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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