From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:00:06 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87zlgp8hjt.fsf@galatea.local> References: <1a12217a-86cb-4088-8fd1-731ce415e68a@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234608110 30998 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2009 10:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:41:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 14 11:43:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LYHz8-0003Gn-Te for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:42:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LYHxo-0004R0-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:41:37 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-a.proxad.net!nnrp2-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTNmZWZhYzM5MTliZWNlODM4ZmUyOGU2ZDFhZWFiMDNjMzFiMzI0Mw== Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Feb 2009 11:00:08 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1234605608 news-1.free.fr 24019 88.182.134.169:57210 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166811 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62123 Archived-At: dstein64 writes: > Are there any functions that can launch external programs (not just > command line programs, but also GUI programs) from Emacs? 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. You should read: http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ Pay particular attention to the chapter 11. > 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. (defun run-any-program (program &rest arguments) (let ((output (get-buffer-create (format "*%s output*" (gensym program))))) (shell-command (format "xterm -T \"Controlling terminal for %s\" -e %s %s &" (shell-quote-argument program) (shell-quote-argument program) (with-output-to-string (dolist (arg arguments) (princ (shell-quote-argument arg)) (princ " ")))) output output))) (run-any-program "xclock") (run-any-program "vim") (run-any-program "emacs" "-q" "-nw") (run-any-program "emacs" "-q") -- __Pascal Bourguignon__