From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Clemente Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:33:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87r689xcw9.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87hcbkpo0e.fsf@gmail.com> <86y74wzeq1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <874p7ifonh.fsf@jurta.org> <873amryzdu.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87sku9hdkr.fsf@gmail.com> <87mykh1hpi.fsf@jurta.org> <87prpba6qj.fsf@gmail.com> <87abgfun32.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0807221250v510e83b7u75dd271846704abb@mail.gmail.com> <87tzehd0ll.fsf@jurta.org> <87hca868s8.fsf@gmail.com> <874p68iqgz.fsf@jurta.org> <87vdymywnm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87myjy5afw.fsf@jurta.org> <87wsif187e.fsf@gmail.com> <878wulaxb2.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219944878 6454 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2008 17:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:34:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 28 19:35:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYlOa-0001oJ-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:34:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60041 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlNb-0003t0-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlNX-0003si-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlNV-0003sO-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55387 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlNV-0003sL-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60442 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 1KYlNU-0005pe-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KYlNS-0006cG-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:33:46 +0000 Original-Received: from 62.97.110.250 ([62.97.110.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:33:46 +0000 Original-Received: from dcl441-bugs by 62.97.110.250 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:33:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.97.110.250 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vJlFOrpTYzjR9HP1tLCYa++OTYI= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103078 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: > > There is no term "background" in the existing Emacs documentation, > so it is better to use the term "asynchronously" like in the > docstring of `shell-command': > Ok. But I find „the program executes synchronously“ not so descriptive as saying that „Emacs remains blocked until the program ends“. Many users will be reading that documentation when they wonder why Emacs is blocked after opening evince or firefox.