From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vektor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: run shell-command in the background? Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:44:41 +0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093395646 26821 80.91.224.253 (25 Aug 2004 01:00:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 03:00:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bzm9T-0005Wb-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzmE0-0007XW-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:05:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 71 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.190.137.215 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1093395054 31229 61.190.137.215 (25 Aug 2004 00:50:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:50:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124921 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20270 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20270 actually this is what i am doing. the runmoz script is good so that even i C-g when emacs freeze, the mozilla will continue running without exit. but "shell-command &" will do nothing good. this is from my .emacs.el --------------------------------------------------------------- ;; browser url with mozilla (when window-system (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-mozilla) (setq browse-url-mozilla-program "runmoz") (defun browse-url-mozilla (url &optional new-window) ;; new-window ignored "Open URL in a new tab in Mozilla." (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: ")) (message "Starting Mozilla...") (shell-command (concat browse-url-mozilla-program " " url)) (message "Starting Mozilla...done")) ) --------------------------------------------------------------- runmoz ---------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh #run new url in LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH # my mozilla need some lib to be loaded MOZ_PATH=/usr/local/tools/mozilla-1.7/bin if [ $# = 0 ]; then $MOZ_PATH/mozilla -remote 'ping()' &> /dev/null if ! [ $? = 0 ]; then $MOZ_PATH/mozilla & > /dev/null & fi else $MOZ_PATH/mozilla -remote "openURL($1,new-tab)" &> /dev/null if ! [ $? = 0 ]; then $MOZ_PATH/mozilla "$1" & > /dev/null & fi fi ----------------------------------------------------------------- David Kastrup writes: > Vektor writes: > >> if i use (shell-command "my-script"), the emacs will run the script >> and freeze itself. >> is it possible to run a shell command in the background? >> >> >> ps: actually, this script is named "runmoz", it handle the "open >> new-tab in an already running mozilla, otherwise start a mozilla" >> stuff. > > You know browse-url ? > > -- > David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- Remove all XYZ from my email to get the real one.