From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: some dired hints should be background jobs Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 05:33:50 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ptpcnl8h.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Dan Jacobson NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046484695 1835 80.91.224.249 (1 Mar 2003 02:11:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 02:11:35 +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 18owTN-0000TS-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:11:33 +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 18owSo-0006BI-04 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18owSg-00067Q-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:10:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18owSe-00064e-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:10:49 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18owSe-00063D-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:10:48 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18owSI-0000QK-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:10:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18owNH-0000CU-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:05:15 +0100 Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4531 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4531 idea, in dired with the cursor on a .pdf file, when we hit ! we get ! on man.pdf: [xpdf] [by the way, I just copy-and-pasted that line from the minibuffer prompt into this message and can't edit it one bit!] OK, but better a better default would be running xpdf in the background, for which the user has to type "xpdf * &" which BTW creates an distracting Async window. Yes, all that can be customized on one's own. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780