* emacs waiting for external program to exit
@ 2007-09-12 8:20 Leo
2007-09-12 8:58 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Leo @ 2007-09-12 8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi there,
If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
program exits.
Is there anyway I can't avoid that i.e. I'd like to be able to continue
using the same Emacs session?
Thanks,
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* Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
2007-09-12 8:20 emacs waiting for external program to exit Leo
@ 2007-09-12 8:58 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-09-12 9:33 ` Leo
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2007-09-13 8:51 ` William Xu
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2007-09-12 8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
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.
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* Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
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@ 2007-09-12 21:36 ` Fabian Braennstroem
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From: Fabian Braennstroem @ 2007-09-12 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi,
Peter Dyballa schrieb am 09/12/2007 08:58 AM:
> 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.
>
or use 'call-process', their are some alsaplayer example on
emacswiki.
Regards!
Fabian
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* Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
2007-09-12 8:20 emacs waiting for external program to exit Leo
2007-09-12 8:58 ` Peter Dyballa
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@ 2007-09-13 8:51 ` William Xu
2007-10-06 8:28 ` Leo
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From: William Xu @ 2007-09-13 8:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
> program exits.
>
> Is there anyway I can't avoid that i.e. I'd like to be able to continue
> using the same Emacs session?
Just redefining `dired-run-shell-command' by replacing shell-command
works for me.
,----
| (require 'dired-aux)
|
| (defun xwl-shell-command-asynchronously (cmd)
| (start-process-shell-command cmd nil cmd))
|
| ;; Run shell command at background
| (defun dired-run-shell-command (command)
| (let ((handler
| (find-file-name-handler
| (directory-file-name default-directory)
| 'shell-command)))
| (if handler
| (apply handler 'shell-command (list command))
| ;; (shell-command command)))
| (xwl-shell-command-asynchronously command))) ; xwl
| ;; Return nil for sake of nconc in dired-bunch-files.
| nil)
`----
--
William
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* Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
2007-09-13 8:51 ` William Xu
@ 2007-10-06 8:28 ` Leo
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From: Leo @ 2007-10-06 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 2007-09-13 09:51 +0100, William Xu wrote:
> Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
>> program exits.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can't avoid that i.e. I'd like to be able to continue
>> using the same Emacs session?
>
> Just redefining `dired-run-shell-command' by replacing shell-command
> works for me.
>
> ,----
> | (require 'dired-aux)
> |
> | (defun xwl-shell-command-asynchronously (cmd)
> | (start-process-shell-command cmd nil cmd))
> |
> | ;; Run shell command at background
> | (defun dired-run-shell-command (command)
> | (let ((handler
> | (find-file-name-handler
> | (directory-file-name default-directory)
> | 'shell-command)))
> | (if handler
> | (apply handler 'shell-command (list command))
> | ;; (shell-command command)))
> | (xwl-shell-command-asynchronously command))) ; xwl
> | ;; Return nil for sake of nconc in dired-bunch-files.
> | nil)
> `----
Thanks! I just re-define dired-run-shell-command in my .emacs
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