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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: ferkiwi+a@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:51:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a9a266b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bff91cf40907051242h77bbcc28x27ae08be94249565@mail.gmail.com> (Fernando's message of "Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:42:09 +0200")

> I don't know if it's worth to open a new thread, but as this one is
> related I'll like to report some problem I've had while testing the
> new "&" command  (dired-do-async-shell-command).
>
> If you use it to execute a command that opens a child process then it
> will have no effect at all, the parent process will be finished and no
> program will be executed. You can reproduce this if you execute &
> xdg-open (freedesktop command for opening a file).
>
> dired-do-shell-command does work when you use it to execute xdg-open,
> but it will run the program synchronously.
>
> Would it be possible to fix this so that "&" waits for child processes
> running asynchronously to finish?

I see that running `M-! xdg-open file &' works correctly on KDE,
but fails on Gnome.  Is this an Emacs bug at all?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-06 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-23  8:13 Short explanation for & in key ! of dired Daniel Clemente
2008-06-23  9:24 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-23  9:31   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-24 23:05     ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-25  6:51       ` joakim
2008-06-25  6:59         ` Miles Bader
2008-06-25  7:10           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-25  7:15             ` David Kastrup
2008-06-25  8:19             ` joakim
2008-06-25  8:30               ` Miles Bader
2008-06-25  8:44                 ` joakim
2008-06-25 16:14                   ` Paul R
2008-06-26 12:04                   ` Lynbech Christian
2008-06-26 12:10                     ` David Kastrup
2008-06-26 22:46                       ` Phil Jackson
2008-06-27 23:30                       ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-28  1:04                         ` Miles Bader
2008-06-28 19:47                           ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-25 18:03               ` Mathias Dahl
2008-06-25 18:52                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-03 11:34       ` & and M-& to run programs asynchronously (was: Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired) Daniel Clemente
2008-07-03 11:45         ` & and M-& to run programs asynchronously David Kastrup
2008-07-06 18:54           ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-06 19:41             ` David Kastrup
2008-07-07 22:12               ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-08  0:37                 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-08 23:07                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-09  5:30                     ` Edward O'Connor
2008-07-09 20:35                       ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-09 20:39                         ` Edward O'Connor
2008-07-06 18:57         ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-16 18:46         ` Daniel Clemente
2008-07-17  0:33           ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-18  9:20             ` Daniel Clemente
2008-07-19  0:27               ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-22 19:50                 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-07-22 22:48                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-29 14:53                     ` Daniel Clemente
2008-07-29 16:51                       ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-31 14:07                         ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-31 15:30                           ` Juri Linkov
2008-08-18  0:24                             ` Daniel Clemente
2008-08-25 19:52                               ` Juri Linkov
2008-08-28 17:33                                 ` Daniel Clemente
2008-08-29  5:59                                 ` tomas
2008-09-10 23:57                                   ` Juri Linkov
2009-10-14  0:47                           ` Daniel Clemente
2008-09-06 17:10         ` Daniel Clemente
2008-09-10 23:52           ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-15 13:13             ` Daniel Clemente
2008-11-15 16:12               ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-28  9:51             ` Daniel Clemente
2009-06-28 21:52               ` Juri Linkov
2009-06-29 16:52                 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-06-30  0:02                   ` Juri Linkov
     [not found]                     ` <jwvljn91ns5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-30 20:19                       ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-01  0:02                       ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-01  1:03                         ` Miles Bader
2009-07-02 23:27                           ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-05 19:42                             ` Fernando
2009-07-06 23:51                               ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-07-07 10:02                                 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-01 15:03                         ` Stefan Monnier

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