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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Detecting a running process in Elisp
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:48:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ehakz8v1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8426374f-5db2-4d36-b3ce-6446999ae048@googlegroups.com>

> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:18:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: gentsquash@gmail.com
> 
> Thanks, all, for your replies.  I realize that I didn't give
> enough information.  I'm running
> 
>    GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
> 
> under Mac OS.  It appears there is no `list-system-processes' in Emacs22.

Indeed.  Why not upgrade?

>     Eli Zaretskii
>     > From: Drew Adams <drew....@oracle.com>
>     > ... That led me to `process-list', which I imagine you
>     > can use to get what you want.
> 
>     These are for processes that Emacs launched.  Other processes
>     running on the system will not show.
>     \________________________________________________________/
> 
> 
> In a shell, inside Emacs, I can run
> 
> 	open /Applications/ChessJK/ScidvsMac.app
> 
> However, I don't think this counts as launching-from-Emacs

It doesn't.  Emacs subprocesses are those created by call-process,
call-process-region, and start-process.

> So... If I wanted to "launch" ScidvsMac (a chess database program)
> from Emacs, under Mac OS, how would I do it?

Use start-process.  There are commands that use that, from Dired, for
example.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-27  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 15:26 Detecting a running process in Elisp gentsquash
2013-07-26 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-26 15:50 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 15:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <<83siz1z58a.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 16:17     ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 18:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <<83mwp9yx5f.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 18:54         ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.1854.1374853118.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 16:58   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-26 18:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1870.1374863596.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 20:57       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-27  7:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-26 23:18 ` gentsquash
2013-07-26 23:57   ` Drew Adams
2013-07-27  8:48   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-07-27  9:07   ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-27 10:20   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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