From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "mateusz.fiolka" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Dired copying file / emacs blocking Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:20:43 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <88d08b90-494e-42d8-bc44-92d3c59ae695@e5g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235746822 30102 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2009 15:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:00:22 +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 27 16:01:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ld4DM-0003AX-MR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:01:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld4C1-0005Hu-VF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:00:01 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!e5g2000vbe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.3.94.194 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235665243 17528 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2009 16:20:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e5g2000vbe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.3.94.194; posting-account=kym-1QoAAAClTHPHBmFGfh1FGi_gkcll User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.63 (X11; Linux i686; U; pl) Presto/2.1.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167105 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:59:35 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62432 Archived-At: Hi, I'm starting to do all my file management tasks in Dired. However yesterday I faced a problem I can't find solution for on the internet. When I copy a large file (let's say a 700MB movie) Emacs totally blocks. I understand it is a normal thing as it is only one process and all operations are synchronous. Is there any way to do it as an external operation? I think that something like copy queue would be useful (like in total commander on windows). Are all Dired users just waiting for their files to copy? Thanks, Mateusz F.