From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Async shell-command-to-string? Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:11:03 +0200 Message-ID: <48432C87.30906@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212361895 29893 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2008 23:11:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:11:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Lindstr=F6m?= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 02 01:12:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2wil-0004Wt-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:12:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2whz-0002Fa-9d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2whi-0002FV-50 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2whg-0002FH-OQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54770 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2whg-0002FE-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:35641) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2whg-0005GZ-8G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:60311 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K2whe-0007iY-5V; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:11:06 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080601-0, 2008-06-01), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1K2whe-0007iY-5V. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1K2whe-0007iY-5V daf247c3ea31ac3c5bb57b58ec175dc6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:54418 Archived-At: Johan Lindström wrote: > Hi all! > > I'd like to run something similar to shell-command-to-string, but that > runs "asynchronously" in a "subprocess" in the "background". I've > searched for all those things without finding anything suitable. > > async-shell-command-to-string or whatever it would be called would take > a callback for the string output when the subprocess is done. > > Is there anything like that already? > > If not, any hints on how to implement it? The async part of > shell-command looks promising to nick. Look in the Emacs manual: (info "(elisp) Processes")