From: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: some dired hints should be background jobs
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:10:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smu52zeh.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303010341.VAA06801@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:41:35 -0600 (CST)")
>>>>> Dan Jacobson wrote:
> idea, in dired with the cursor on a .pdf file, when we hit ! we get
> ! on man.pdf: [xpdf] [by the way, I just copy-and-pasted that line
> from the minibuffer prompt into this message and can't edit it one
> bit!] OK, but better a better default would be running xpdf in the
> background, for which the user has to type "xpdf * &" which BTW
> creates an distracting Async window. Yes, all that can be
> customized on one's own.
Does "&" do anything on Windows? What should happen then?
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-02 22:10 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 [this message]
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
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