From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired: launch program withou stalling emacs Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:45:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4A6475F7.4000500@telenet.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248104787 8479 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2009 15:46:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Alain Muls Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 20 17:46:20 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 1MSv4F-0002Gk-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:46:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSv4F-0000zF-8F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSv3y-0000zA-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSv3t-0000xW-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50603 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSv3t-0000xT-KB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.243]:7447) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSv3t-0006Ol-9v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b6so2386323ana.21 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:45:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=o+VBfcNjWMv71DNowNVJs6hMVvBcmvdMgbEXVFQimOM=; b=GDDnPJ3IAi/xm4USsa/HgClasfVFE5OKsXKoQr9ppmOWEnNwBe2s55f8o4VXpwVSU9 3mFImQSkSCiui1KCwfsesrZiai5iworHp7YX/+Zv22feYp+3T5P8QFzdpkN7cZhh4CpZ vN5fNcHRg2PRl5EqsyLSJefbxdrjC64lILNDI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ksSZyagMcSryN6waKCkFRohaWo41WjXVEiPd5fkdrqg7v3R5TKi67BhOBMnXOcCBsM KiS2NtStZxLIQJXu01yviK1SfeD/cqHc5NiYBySYUcAhN3vMwNOpbOIFb+zToYQ/BXx+ rri6pd5KB4YGYLp5D2K5BLfBk+67bIBKUWzMY= Original-Received: by 10.100.215.7 with SMTP id n7mr6273540ang.195.1248104756616; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:45:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A6475F7.4000500@telenet.be> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:66254 Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Alain Muls wrote: > Hi > > I am learning to use dired for file operations. I found out how to launch= a > program associated with the extension using eg > > (require 'dired-x) > (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0'(("\\.pdf$" "evince"))) > > The inconvenience of this is that I have to close the program before I ca= n > resume working in emacs. Is there a possibility to launch the pdfviewer > evince and be able to work in emacs without closing the pdfviewer? Maybe this page can help to clarify things: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SexMode