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From: Thamer Mahmoud <thamer.mahmoud@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multiple async-shell-command?
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:48:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjioucaw.fsf@zemblan.newkuwait.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ipjn2656.fsf@pobox.com

Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> writes:

> I was just dired-ing a folder of PDFs, where I did
>
>> & evince
>
> to display one. I then tried to display another in the same way, but got
>
>> A command is running. Kill it? (yes or no)
>
> How can I run multiple simultaneous async-shell-command?
> Or is there another/better way to do what I want?
>

I think this problem is caused by Emacs not able to associate multiple
processes to a single output buffer (in this case "*Async Shell
Command*"). To get rid of this message, I wrote Runner.el[1] which also
provides a better "open with" functionality for dired (although you will
need to use the '!' key instead of '&').

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/Runner

hth,
-- 
Thamer




  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-05 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-03 17:12 multiple async-shell-command? Tom Roche
2012-02-05 22:48 ` Thamer Mahmoud [this message]
2012-02-06  7:09 ` Alan E. Davis
2012-02-06  8:27   ` Thamer Mahmoud
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3279.1328516896.15002.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-02-06 16:20     ` jpkotta

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