From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Asynchronous commands with eshell-command Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:51:26 +0100 Message-ID: <873af45xz5.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <87skn44s9p.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233086322 10079 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 19:58:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:58:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 20:59:56 2009 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 1LRu6B-0000xJ-Vl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:59:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRu4u-0003ED-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRu4X-0003Dk-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRu4V-0003DH-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52266 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRu4U-0003DE-TB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:58:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48056 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRu4U-0001xG-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:58:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LRu4Q-0005T5-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 137.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.137]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 137.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:58:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 62 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z424fmsJo4Ko/uSXcQET8IRKssg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61710 Archived-At: Sebastian Tennant writes: > Quoth Thierry Volpiatto : >> Sebastian Tennant writes: >> >>> Quoth Michael Heerdegen : >>>> Does anybody know how to start external commands asynchronously with >>>> `eshell-command'? I tried `xterm &' for example, which works but also >>>> raises an error. >>>> >>>> The source code seems to support the asynchronous case, but I don't >>>> know what to type. >>> >>> Where's Thierry Volpiatto when you need him :) >> >> I am here again! > > Great :) > >> But i am not a specialist of eshell, just a user that use always >> eshell-command instead of shell-command (M-!) because it's much more >> powerful: It accept elisp code, shell code, the both mixed, alias, all >> completion and more. > > The fact it is so powerful is what puts me off. I can sees days, and > even weeks, disappearing as I get more and more into it :) > >> But if you want to make more complex async commands, why not creating >> a specialized function using start-process/start-process-shell-command >> with another sentinel-function that use set-process-sentinel ? > > Hmm... like interactive-asynchronous-shell-command? :) Yes i saw you wrote something about async shell-command ;) I will have a look. > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/3147 > > I suspect Michael knows all about these kinds of methods and is being a > little braver than I am in starting to explore the capabilities of > eshell. Some simple thing like that can call any external process async: ,---- | (defun tv-async-process (process &rest args) | (apply #'start-process process nil process | args)) `---- ==> (tv-async-process "xterm" "-e" "lynx") # or ==> (tv-async-process "firefox" "http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki") # -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France