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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: dstein64 <DStein64@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:08:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wo9upxq.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a12217a-86cb-4088-8fd1-731ce415e68a@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (dstein's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:48:56 -0800 (PST)")

dstein64 <DStein64@gmail.com> writes:

> Are there any functions that can launch external programs (not just
> command line programs, but also GUI programs) from Emacs? I know that
> I can access a shell, and call a program from there, but then emacs is
> not operable until I close the program. Prepending the command with
> `nohup' is useful, but for some reason it does not work as expected
> with all programs, including emacs. I would prefer another way of
> doing this - using a specific built-in of emacs lisp if one exists.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Tramp does it. Tested with Emacs 23.0.90:

(with-temp-buffer
  (cd "/ssh:remotehost:")
  (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-process-environment
	       (concat "DISPLAY=" (getenv "DISPLAY"))
  (start-file-process "xterm" nil "xterm"))

Best regards, Michael.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-14 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-14  6:48 Executing External Programs from Emacs dstein64
2009-02-14 10:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-02-14 10:30 ` Nurullah Akkaya
2009-02-14 10:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-02-14 13:08 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2009-02-14 14:47 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-14 20:30 ` tyler
2009-02-16 11:52 ` Josef G. Bauer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-14 21:25 Xavier Maillard

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