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* Dired copying file / emacs blocking
@ 2009-02-26 16:20 mateusz.fiolka
  2009-02-27 11:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
  2009-03-02  9:52 ` Martin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: mateusz.fiolka @ 2009-02-26 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi,

I'm starting to do all my file management tasks in Dired. However
yesterday I faced a problem I can't find solution for on the internet.
When I copy a large file (let's say a 700MB movie) Emacs totally
blocks. I understand it is a normal thing as it is only one process
and all operations are synchronous. Is there any way to do it as an
external operation? I think that something like copy queue would be
useful (like in total commander on windows). Are all Dired users just
waiting for their files to copy?

Thanks,
Mateusz F.


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* Re: Dired copying file / emacs blocking
  2009-02-26 16:20 Dired copying file / emacs blocking mateusz.fiolka
@ 2009-02-27 11:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
  2009-02-27 21:29   ` mateusz.fiolka
  2009-03-02  9:52 ` Martin
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Michael Heerdegen @ 2009-02-27 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

"mateusz.fiolka" <mateusz.fiolka@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm starting to do all my file management tasks in Dired. However
> yesterday I faced a problem I can't find solution for on the internet.
> When I copy a large file (let's say a 700MB movie) Emacs totally
> blocks. I understand it is a normal thing as it is only one process
> and all operations are synchronous. Is there any way to do it as an
> external operation? I think that something like copy queue would be
> useful (like in total commander on windows). Are all Dired users just
> waiting for their files to copy?
>
> Thanks,
> Mateusz F.

I use dired-do-shell-command (bound to !) in such cases. This is also
a better solution when deleting recursively large directory trees.


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* Re: Dired copying file / emacs blocking
  2009-02-27 11:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
@ 2009-02-27 21:29   ` mateusz.fiolka
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: mateusz.fiolka @ 2009-02-27 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

On 27 Lut, 12:18, Michael Heerdegen <nos...@web.de> wrote:
> "mateusz.fiolka" <mateusz.fio...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm starting to do all my file management tasks in Dired. However
> > yesterday I faced a problem I can't find solution for on the internet.
> > When I copy a large file (let's say a 700MB movie) Emacs totally
> > blocks. I understand it is a normal thing as it is only one process
> > and all operations are synchronous. Is there any way to do it as an
> > external operation? I think that something like copy queue would be
> > useful (like in total commander on windows). Are all Dired users just
> > waiting for their files to copy?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Mateusz F.
>
> I use dired-do-shell-command (bound to !) in such cases. This is also
> a better solution when deleting recursively large directory trees.

Thanks Michael,

Just for the record: I have done some research and found out that
Sunrise Commander does copy in the background. It also
has AVFS support for archives and remote filesystems. Currently I
don't have any experience with it, but
it certainly looks very good and I'm going to fiddle a little with it.

Regards,
Mateusz


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* Re: Dired copying file / emacs blocking
  2009-02-26 16:20 Dired copying file / emacs blocking mateusz.fiolka
  2009-02-27 11:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
@ 2009-03-02  9:52 ` Martin
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Martin @ 2009-03-02  9:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs


"mateusz.fiolka" writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm starting to do all my file management tasks in Dired. However
> yesterday I faced a problem I can't find solution for on the internet.
> When I copy a large file (let's say a 700MB movie) Emacs totally
> blocks. I understand it is a normal thing as it is only one process
> and all operations are synchronous. Is there any way to do it as an
> external operation? I think that something like copy queue would be
> useful (like in total commander on windows). Are all Dired users just
> waiting for their files to copy?
>
> Thanks,
> Mateusz F.

In emacs 23, which is currently in pretest, you have

  dired-do-async-shell-command

     Run a shell command COMMAND on the marked files asynchronously.


parozusa at web dot de


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