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From: twiki7619@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: PDF from dired-buffer with win32 Reader in background?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:54:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e882d21e-3169-4383-bcf3-affbadb54d6b@googlegroups.com> (raw)

To read PDF files from within a Dired buffer
I use ! on the name of the file and the following
settings in my. emacs

...
  (add-hook 'dired-load-hook
  	  (function (lambda ()
  		      (load "dired-x"))))

  (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
      (list
       (list "\\.pdf$"    "acrord32.exe")
       (list "\\.PDF$"    "acrord32.exe")
       ))
...

(The path of acrord32.exe is in my environment variable PATH)

Emacs, however, remains locked until I close Adobe Reader!
How do I run acrord32.exe in the background
while maintaining control of Emacs?

THANKS!


             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-12  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-12  8:54 twiki7619 [this message]
2012-10-12  9:52 ` PDF from dired-buffer with win32 Reader in background? Tassilo Horn
2012-10-23  8:12 ` Martin

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