From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: PDF from dired-buffer with win32 Reader in background? Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:52:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87626gj9u0.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350035604 7666 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2012 09:53:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:53:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 11:53:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TMbvs-00032u-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:53:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMbvm-0008SN-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMbvc-0008R7-SH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMbvY-0003wA-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMbvX-0003w6-Tg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:53:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TMbvb-0002so-Lq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:53:11 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:53:11 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:53:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/xv0XphkYSHQQ+DnI3wHE7+4YuQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87190 Archived-At: twiki7619@gmail.com writes: Hi! > Emacs, however, remains locked until I close Adobe Reader! How do I > run acrord32.exe in the background while maintaining control of Emacs? ,----[ C-h f dired-do-shell-command RET ] | dired-do-shell-command is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in | `dired-aux.el'. | | [...] | | If COMMAND ends in `&', `;', or `;&', it is executed in the | background asynchronously, and the output appears in the buffer | `*Async Shell Command*'. When operating on multiple files and COMMAND | ends in `&', the shell command is executed on each file in parallel. | However, when COMMAND ends in `;' or `;&' then commands are executed | in the background on each file sequentially waiting for each command | to terminate before running the next command. You can also use | `dired-do-async-shell-command' that automatically adds `&'. | | [...] `---- Bye, Tassilo