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From: Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Dired shell command on file asymchronously
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:42:03 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20050624T134028-643@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17083.13314.923118.23889@mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx

Luis O. Silva <l.o.silva <at> mail.ru> writes:

> I'm using the extension dired-x.el, Emacs 21.2.1. When in
> Dired mode I use dired-do-shell-command for launching xdvi on
> a .dvi file. I want to use Emacs further while browsing the
> xdvi window, but that is impossible since Emacs waits until
> the xdvi process is terminated.

Append an ampersand ("&") to the command, e.g. "xdvi * &"

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-24 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-23 22:13 Dired shell command on file asymchronously Luis O. Silva
2005-06-24 11:42 ` Emilio Lopes [this message]
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2005-06-24 12:59 ` Josef.Bauer.NOSPAM
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1102.1119633137.2857.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-06-24 17:43     ` Josef.Bauer.NOSPAM
2005-06-24 21:19       ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1131.1119648589.2857.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-06-27 12:54         ` Josef.Bauer.NOSPAM
2005-06-24 18:10   ` Luis O. Silva

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