From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Elliott Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: asymchronously Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:06:26 -0500 Organization: Cox Communications Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119618233 10977 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2005 13:03:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 15:03:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlnpr-0004kq-56 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:03:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlnws-00019E-VR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:10:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!p01!okepread04.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.229.163.92 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net Original-X-Trace: okepread04 1119618387 68.229.163.92 (Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:06:27 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:06:27 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132156 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:27631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27631 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