From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell and jobs Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:56:11 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adhii9ok.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <2iy95589rj.fsf@kite.ssc.wisc.edu> <87of5yidod.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <2i3cnaqrii.fsf@kite.ssc.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043963985 976 80.91.224.249 (30 Jan 2003 21:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18eMil-0000FL-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:59:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eMjb-0008F7-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:00:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0LB7soH4LNlTpu23FOsv7XNQUsw= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 19 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109618 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6136 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6136 >>>>> Michael Spittel writes: > But when I put in the code you suggested into my .emacs, eshell > still told me the job was done in the command line, and it did not > create a new buffer by the name of *eshell.job.finished*. In other > words, it behaved as the eshell we all know and love :-) Make sure the code snippit is evaluated *after* eshell is loaded, not before... > I know I'm going to show my utter ignorance for elisp in the > following question, but is there anything inherently 'wrong' with > using the code that Kai suggested? Nope, not if you don't mind typing "ec" before your commands. I use a similar command called "start", which disowns the process so that it doesn't die if Emacs should go away. John