Re: Asynchronous commands with eshell-command

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael, Sebastian and all!
Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:

> Quoth Michael Heerdegen <michaelh@minet.uni-jena.de>:
>> Does anybody know how to start external commands asynchronously with
>> `eshell-command'? I tried `xterm &' for example, which works but also
>> raises an error.
>>
>> The source code seems to support the asynchronous case, but I don't
>> know what to type.
>
> Where's Thierry Volpiatto when you need him :)

I am here again!
But i am not a specialist of eshell, just a user that use always
eshell-command instead of shell-command (M-!) because it's much more
powerful:
It accept elisp code, shell code, the both mixed, alias, all completion
and more.

But for asynchronous commands, i don't know.
Using & work fine here, except apply seem to doesn't like the &.
May be have a look at `eshell-parse-argument-hook'.
I will look at that on my side.

But if you want to make more complex async commands, why not creating a
specialized function using start-process/start-process-shell-command
with another sentinel-function that use set-process-sentinel ?

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