From: tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:30:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874oywdan6.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1a12217a-86cb-4088-8fd1-731ce415e68a@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com
dstein64 <DStein64@gmail.com> writes:
> Are there any functions that can launch external programs (not just
> command line programs, but also GUI programs) from Emacs?
From a shell within Emacs, call the command followed by '&'. You can
also do this from with the 'shell-command' function, which is invoked
with M-!. So, to call a pdf viewer, for example, you could do:
M-! xpdf & <return>
Cheers,
Tyler
> I know that
> I can access a shell, and call a program from there, but then emacs is
> not operable until I close the program. Prepending the command with
> `nohup' is useful, but for some reason it does not work as expected
> with all programs, including emacs. I would prefer another way of
> doing this - using a specific built-in of emacs lisp if one exists.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
--
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is
to birds. --Richard Feynman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-14 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 6:48 Executing External Programs from Emacs dstein64
2009-02-14 10:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-02-14 10:30 ` Nurullah Akkaya
2009-02-14 10:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-02-14 13:08 ` Michael Albinus
2009-02-14 14:47 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-14 20:30 ` tyler [this message]
2009-02-16 11:52 ` Josef G. Bauer
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2009-02-14 21:25 Xavier Maillard
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