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* run external command and let it go
@ 2003-09-25 16:08 John Russell
  2003-09-25 16:20 ` John Russell
  2003-09-25 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: John Russell @ 2003-09-25 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)


Can anyone tell me how I can run an external process (like a temrinal
or a browser) from emacs.  I know shell-command does this, but I
really don't care about the output of the command, so the Shell output
and Async output buffers are just annoying when they come up.  I
really just want to launch a command and then be done with it.  Any
ideas? Thanks.

John

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* Re: run external command and let it go
  2003-09-25 16:08 run external command and let it go John Russell
@ 2003-09-25 16:20 ` John Russell
  2003-09-25 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: John Russell @ 2003-09-25 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw)


John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:

> Can anyone tell me how I can run an external process (like a temrinal
> or a browser) from emacs.  I know shell-command does this, but I
> really don't care about the output of the command, so the Shell output
> and Async output buffers are just annoying when they come up.  I
> really just want to launch a command and then be done with it.  Any
> ideas? Thanks.
> 
> John

Does anyone have a better idea than this?  It just seems like it
should be easier than this.

Plus, every once in a while my process doesn't run because it a
hungup.  But only some times. I hate race conditions.

(defun open-terminal-here ()
  "Opens the terminal defined by the variable terminal-program at
the current working directory."
  (interactive)
  (let (current-config)
    (setq current-config (current-window-configuration))
    (shell-command (concat terminal-program "&"))
    (kill-buffer "*Async Shell Command*")
    (set-window-configuration current-config)
    ))

John

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* Re: run external command and let it go
  2003-09-25 16:08 run external command and let it go John Russell
  2003-09-25 16:20 ` John Russell
@ 2003-09-25 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
  2003-09-26 14:47   ` John Russell
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2003-09-25 18:41 UTC (permalink / raw)


> Can anyone tell me how I can run an external process (like a temrinal
> or a browser) from emacs.  I know shell-command does this, but I
> really don't care about the output of the command, so the Shell output
> and Async output buffers are just annoying when they come up.  I
> really just want to launch a command and then be done with it.  Any
> ideas? Thanks.

`shell-command' is mostly meant for interactive use.  For elisp code, use
`call-process' or `start-process' (which see with C-h f).


        Stefan

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* Re: run external command and let it go
  2003-09-25 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2003-09-26 14:47   ` John Russell
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: John Russell @ 2003-09-26 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)


Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > Can anyone tell me how I can run an external process (like a temrinal
> > or a browser) from emacs.  I know shell-command does this, but I
> > really don't care about the output of the command, so the Shell output
> > and Async output buffers are just annoying when they come up.  I
> > really just want to launch a command and then be done with it.  Any
> > ideas? Thanks.
> 
> `shell-command' is mostly meant for interactive use.  For elisp code, use
> `call-process' or `start-process' (which see with C-h f).

(call-process * nil 0 nil) was what I wanted.  Thanks.

John

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