From: Dan Elliott <dan-underscore-elliott-at-cox-dot-net@spamispathetic.org>
Subject: Re: asymchronously
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:06:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nzTue.68353$gc6.31243@okepread04> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1007.1119560755.2857.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Luis O. Silva wrote:
> Dear Emacs community,
>
> Goal:
> Being in Dired mode I want to apply a shell command to a file
> asynchronously.
>
> Details:
> 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.
When I perform a shell command on files, etc. in emacs, I just put a &
after the command. This may be to simplistic, but it seems to work.
- dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-24 13:06 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.1007.1119560755.2857.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-06-24 12:59 ` Dired shell command on file asymchronously 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
2005-06-24 13:06 ` Dan Elliott [this message]
2005-06-24 18:17 ` asymchronously Luis O. Silva
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