From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_A=2E_Romero_L=2E?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Async Operations in TRAMP Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:54:29 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9a93d50a-eb64-4fa1-a527-1cf79a47c295@v25g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266620938 19160 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2010 23:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:08:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 00:08:55 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nibxv-0004kl-AI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:08:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52952 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nibxu-0000jM-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:08:54 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v25g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.78.68.41 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1266616469 31543 127.0.0.1 (19 Feb 2010 21:54:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v25g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.78.68.41; posting-account=mkEKGAoAAACAV2vhv5r9WHXWqsdL_niD User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176896 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:71965 Archived-At: On 19 Lut, 11:26, Nordl=F6w wrote: > Is it possible to make the dired/tramp file operations, typically > remove, copy and move, asynchronous by spawning them as separate > processes? This would make Emacs TRAMP even more unique and amazing... > > /Nordl=F6w It is certainly possible to launch a separate elisp interpreter from emacs, and delegate to it commands for asynchronous execution. For an example have a look here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander#toc4 that one implements only the copy and move operations, but it would be trivial to add remove too, or any other command that can be put in the background. Cheers, -- Jos=E9 A. Romero L. escherdragon at gmail.com "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals." (Quarry worker's creed)