From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Asynchronous commands with eshell-command Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:55:05 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87skn44s9p.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233082433 27977 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 18:53:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:53:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 19:55:06 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 1LRt5W-0001pt-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:55:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRt4E-0004FN-Fl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:53:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRt3t-0004FE-II for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:53:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRt3s-0004Eu-A4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:53:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51150 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRt3s-0004Er-6Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:53:24 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41006 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRt3r-0001rA-Q7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:53:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LRt3n-0002T6-4V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:53:19 +0000 Original-Received: from vps203.linuxvps.org ([91.186.7.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:53:19 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by vps203.linuxvps.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:53:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: vps203.linuxvps.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CiL36EkXZylQnWkYdFZa5KY15XQ= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61709 Archived-At: Quoth Thierry Volpiatto : > Sebastian Tennant writes: > >> Quoth Michael Heerdegen : >>> Does anybody know how to start external commands asynchronously with >>> `eshell-command'? I tried `xterm &' for example, which works but also >>> raises an error. >>> >>> The source code seems to support the asynchronous case, but I don't >>> know what to type. >> >> Where's Thierry Volpiatto when you need him :) > > I am here again! Great :) > But i am not a specialist of eshell, just a user that use always > eshell-command instead of shell-command (M-!) because it's much more > powerful: It accept elisp code, shell code, the both mixed, alias, all > completion and more. The fact it is so powerful is what puts me off. I can sees days, and even weeks, disappearing as I get more and more into it :) > But if you want to make more complex async commands, why not creating > a specialized function using start-process/start-process-shell-command > with another sentinel-function that use set-process-sentinel ? Hmm... like interactive-asynchronous-shell-command? :) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/3147 I suspect Michael knows all about these kinds of methods and is being a little braver than I am in starting to explore the capabilities of eshell. Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap