RE: Avoiding/removing the Async Shell Command buffer

["Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>]

From the doc (C-h f) for kill-buffer:

The functions in `kill-buffer-query-functions' are called with the buffer to be killed as the current buffer.  If any of them returns nil, the buffer is not killed.

HTH,
Mark

From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Buchs, Kevin
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:19 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Avoiding/removing the Async Shell Command buffer

In gnuemacs 23, I have a shell command I want to run asynchronously but I want it to not open an output buffer (except perhaps if there is an error - but that is quite unlikely). Could someone suggest an approach to solving this? Does it take creation of a custom async-shell-command variant?

I have tried implementing some commands to remove that buffer, but it fails and prompts me to be sure I want to kill the buffer. Here is what I have tried:

(defun org-doc ()
   "Open PDF for Org Mode"
   (interactive)
   (async-shell-command (concat custom-dir "/org-7.7/doc/org.pdf"))
   ; like to have it put away the *Async Shell Command* buffer
   (let ( (process (get-buffer-process "*Async Shell Command*")) )
      (kill-process process))
   (kill-buffer "*Async Shell Command*"))

Does anyone see any *mistakes* in that code?

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