From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fineman.web@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to move files in background with dired? Date: 6 Mar 2005 12:40:20 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1110141620.256224.57020@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> References: <874qfr5lc5.fsf@williamxuuu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110141661 6199 80.91.229.2 (6 Mar 2005 20:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:41:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 21:41:01 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D82YU-0005Fn-DT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:40:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D82s7-0002ka-KA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:01:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.225.224.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1110141624 21263 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2005 20:40:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:40:24 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <874qfr5lc5.fsf@williamxuuu.org> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.225.224.65; posting-account=IxXs6A0AAAAC1sBUOemgl9XkZH6C4Dre Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129018 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24564 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24564 Doesn't really have anything to do with multi-threading... these commands launch sub-processes. Emacs does support a notion of a process sentinal... you could probably fairly easily set up one of these up to do what Joakim requested if my above suggestion does not solve the problem for him (i.e it does it concurrently rather than queuing them).