From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: some dired hints should be background jobs Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:00:01 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <877kbh9v5q.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <200303010341.VAA06801@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <87smu52zeh.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200303022330.RAA07753@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046649669 22016 80.91.224.249 (3 Mar 2003 00:01:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 00:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pdOE-0005ij-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:01:06 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18pdgq-0004b0-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:20:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pdOG-0007eE-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:01:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pdNs-0007QP-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:00:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pdNM-00071z-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pdND-0006uf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:00:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.135] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 2197626 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 16:58:44 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pdNB-0007WL-00 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:00:01 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200303022330.RAA07753@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:30:26 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12070 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12070 >>>>> Luc Teirlinck writes: > 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. 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. John