From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jpkotta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: multiple async-shell-command? Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:20:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <30777757.678.1328545201494.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqmo42> References: <87ipjn2656.fsf@pobox.com> Reply-To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328547651 25806 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2012 17:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 06 18:00:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRvt-0006JJ-K2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:00:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56401 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRvs-0000nn-Vf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:00:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRIX-0004Yd-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRIR-0000wM-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.213.61]:48317) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRIR-0000vX-NL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: by yhgg71 with SMTP id g71so5071038yhg.6 for ; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:20:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.236.174.10 with SMTP id w10mr1614920yhl.11.1328545201622; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:20:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.97.12.233; posting-account=EwI0QQoAAADdqmqX_mVfawBNtwyks2YE Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.97.12.233 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.213.61 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:00:36 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83667 Archived-At: I use openwith (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OpenWith), which works with = dired. Maybe it's not quite what you're looking for, but it can certainly = open more than one file with an external application. The version in the w= iki causes the external programs to close when Emacs closes, because they'r= e subprocesses of Emacs. I've modified it to disown the processes so they = stay up even after Emacs closes. I just submitted a patch; you can get my = version here: http://pastebin.com/F5kxd6sm.