It seems to me that a decent method would behave similarly to the way to "M-x compile" works--- another buffer opens in which the compilation progresses. Is there any reason why this might not be applicable to the way babel works?

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:

Hi Erik,

Currently there is not (to my knowledge) any support for asynchronous
code block evaluation. The one possible exception could be ob-screen
which I mention only because I don't really know anything about it.

This would certainly be a worthwhile feature to add to Org-mode code
blocks, however a good implementation (easy to use, robust and
cross-language) will be non-trivial to implement.

Best,

Erik Garrison <erik.garrison@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting to use org-mode and babel to structure exploratory data
> analysis which I do for my work.
>
> One issue that I've run into is that many of the queries I have to issue
> will take a very long time to complete.
>
> Is there any method I could use to execute them in a background process?
>
> Thanks,
> Erik

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