Load other program from emacs

Load other program from emacs

[Li Chen]

Is there any method which can load other programs within emacs and
return the control to emacs immediately instead leave emacs waiting
until that program was ended?

I can invoke a program within emacs using shell command and shell buffer,
however, both of them lock the emacs and wait for the end of invoked
program.

Richard

Re: Load other program from emacs

[Joakim Hove]

Li Chen <cli2@student.monash.edu.au> writes:

> Is there any method which can load other programs within emacs and
> return the control to emacs immediately instead leave emacs waiting
> until that program was ended?

C-h f shell-command:


  shell-command is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
  (shell-command COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER ERROR-BUFFER)

  Execute string COMMAND in inferior shell; display output, if any.
  With prefix argument, insert the COMMAND's output at point.

  If COMMAND ends in ampersand, execute it asynchronously.
  The output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell Command*'.
  That buffer is in shell mode.
  ...
  ...

So, adding an "&" at the end of the command should do the trick?

HTH - Joakim
  

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Re: Load other program from emacs

[Richard]

Thanks a lot! It workds very well except a buffer call 'Async Shell
Command' popup. It not a problem, but if any method can hide it
automatically will make things better.

Richard

Joakim Hove <hove@bccs.no> wrote in message news:<4yk76fkws3.fsf@skjellgran.ii.uib.no>...
> Li Chen <cli2@student.monash.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > Is there any method which can load other programs within emacs and
> > return the control to emacs immediately instead leave emacs waiting
> > until that program was ended?
> 
> C-h f shell-command:
> 
> 
>   shell-command is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
>   (shell-command COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER ERROR-BUFFER)
> 
>   Execute string COMMAND in inferior shell; display output, if any.
>   With prefix argument, insert the COMMAND's output at point.
> 
>   If COMMAND ends in ampersand, execute it asynchronously.
>   The output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell Command*'.
>   That buffer is in shell mode.
>   ...
>   ...
> 
> So, adding an "&" at the end of the command should do the trick?
> 
> HTH - Joakim

Re: Load other program from emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

[Please don't top-post.]

Richard wrote:

> Thanks a lot! It workds very well except a buffer call 'Async Shell
> Command' popup. It not a problem, but if any method can hide it
> automatically will make things better.

(defadvice display-buffer (around async-shell-command activate)
   "If BUFFER is named *Async Shell Command*, don't display it."
   (or (and (bufferp (ad-get-arg 0))
	   (equal (buffer-name (ad-get-arg 0)) "*Async Shell Command*"))
       ad-do-it))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Load other program from emacs

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Li Chen <cli2@student.monash.edu.au> writes:

> Is there any method which can load other programs within emacs and
> return the control to emacs immediately instead leave emacs waiting
> until that program was ended?

check out `M-x compile'.

thi

Re: Load other program from emacs

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311051827170.2388@NingNing>,
Li Chen  <cli2@student.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>Is there any method which can load other programs within emacs and
>return the control to emacs immediately instead leave emacs waiting
>until that program was ended?
>
>I can invoke a program within emacs using shell command and shell buffer,
>however, both of them lock the emacs and wait for the end of invoked
>program.

If you end the command line with "&", the command will be run in the
background and control will return immediately, just as in an ordinary
shell.

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