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From: Friedrich Laher <fritz.laher@schmieder-laher.de>
Subject: Re: interaction with "internal" emacs processes.
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:25:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43454FF9.5070803@schmieder-laher.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4345465ee37b0@wp.pl>

perhaps "advise" ?

mak kwak wrote:

>Halo
>My question is rather general.
>Quite often I have a need of controling some internal emacs processes. By "internal process" i mean an action that is not listed by `M-x list-processes' but still seems to be and independant process. Examples are: action invoked by `M-x ediff-directories' or `M-x cvs-checkout'.
>My question is: can I interact somehow with those emacs "internal processes" ? Especially I would like to deffer invocations of a lisp function after "internal process" is finished.
>
>Example:
>(defun my-cvs-checkout-example ()
>""
>(call-interactively 'cvs-checkout)
>(message "checking out cvs repository finished") ;;. I want it be run as cvs-checkout is finished and here it is not.
>)
>
>
>I expect that sometimes there is a special hook that is run after something is finished, but sometimes there is no such hook ( like here for example ). I also did not find any `wait' elisp function that would wait for other function to be finished.
>
>My question is: are there any mechanisms in elisp that make such things be possible.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-06 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-06 15:44 interaction with "internal" emacs processes mak kwak
2005-10-06 16:25 ` Friedrich Laher [this message]
2005-10-06 17:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.10118.1128621534.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-07 17:06   ` rgb
2005-10-11 15:02     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-10-11  3:56   ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-07 14:19 mak kwak

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