From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:58:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D3E626BC-9291-491F-992D-7396B1C4DDED@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28x7cb8i2.fsf@cam.ac.uk>
Am 12.09.2007 um 10:20 schrieb Leo:
> If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
> program exits.
Can't you put evince into the background? Either use a shell script
as go-between or use a function for dired-x that was sent to the list
recently, could be in May or June ... It was about launching an
external programme in the background.
--
Greetings
Pete
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire
affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
-- Ambrose Bierce: _The Devil's Dictionary_
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-12 8:20 emacs waiting for external program to exit Leo
2007-09-12 8:58 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2007-09-12 9:33 ` Leo
2007-09-12 10:15 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.749.1189589698.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-13 15:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-09-13 16:04 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.746.1189587514.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-12 21:36 ` Fabian Braennstroem
2007-09-13 8:51 ` William Xu
2007-10-06 8:28 ` Leo
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