From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: some dired hints should be background jobs Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:10:14 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87smu52zeh.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <200303010341.VAA06801@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046643200 455 80.91.224.249 (2 Mar 2003 22:13:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pbhv-00007B-00 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:13:19 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18pc0U-0003Se-00 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:32:30 +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 18pbfX-0002eC-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:10:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pbf2-0002ZJ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pbf0-0002Wy-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pbez-0002Tz-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.135] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 2195244 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:08:56 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pbew-0005o7-00 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:10:14 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200303010341.VAA06801@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:41:35 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12067 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12067 >>>>> Dan Jacobson wrote: > 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. Does "&" do anything on Windows? What should happen then? John