From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Roche Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: multiple async-shell-command? Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:12:05 -0500 Message-ID: <87ipjn2656.fsf@pobox.com> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Tom Roche NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328288882 13072 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2012 17:08:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:08:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 03 18:08:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtMcC-0006AE-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:08:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtMcB-0005CZ-OQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtMc7-0005CQ-JM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:07:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtMc0-0005yf-0c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:45205 helo=smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtMbz-0005yb-Q6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F310E7C48; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:07:46 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=o52hXsQfQ8FlF8yltOLQySGB0Qs=; b=pk3Q57FAG/toBI0T9IbwIkM ca8LSiztGAsxyA+iLRXS8XndmeN29hW5cKyNFbzf6xZG6dpEbOCnr34EQklK+pqN 1fN+52fFiSTpw52DNwJQVPg/7ezPFEmQyXRCAXNPMC3JeaP5K/9/fbYe3b9u5i6A S47hjAJcBAmGAnJIsX6g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s= sasl; b=X/2w9L+N3FsNMpBxi1TN1fqV/juqDDiJ60oQGd+/bl85fGSJ9reQPTPx g+S+wLoaHzpjI4AgLN/6pAZiADpxkMkCU/8inDz9pxj2zUvNVcwG6QdMlxe3Zkmu 0TWfGawyfTcihojyrYUtClYY7mfU6qXZ5G+lXdJUsShsy+BV3xo= Original-Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5397C47; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:07:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from tlrPanP5.pobox.com (unknown [50.52.137.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 402427C46; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:07:46 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 97F9DDDA-4E89-11E1-B7F1-9DB42E706CDE-07218935!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 208.72.237.35 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83628 Archived-At: I'm running me@it:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: LinuxMint Description: Linux Mint Debian Edition Release: 1 Codename: debian me@it:~$ uname -a Linux it 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 02:24:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux me@it:~$ emacs-snapshot --version GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 I was just dired-ing a folder of PDFs, where I did > & evince to display one. I then tried to display another in the same way, but got > A command is running. Kill it? (yes or no) How can I run multiple simultaneous async-shell-command? Or is there another/better way to do what I want? TIA, Tom Roche