From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Detecting a running process in Elisp Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <8426374f-5db2-4d36-b3ce-6446999ae048@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374883057 28684 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2013 23:57:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:57:37 +0000 (UTC) To: gentsquash@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 27 01:57:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V2rt9-0002hl-OX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 01:57:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2rt9-0005J1-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43678) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2rsy-0005E2-15 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2rsx-0003Qz-1M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:24038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2rsw-0003QQ-RB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r6QNvJxI003619 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:57:20 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6QNvH4t025754 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:57:17 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt105.oracle.com (abhmt105.oracle.com [141.146.116.57]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6QNvH9X025750; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:57:17 GMT In-Reply-To: <8426374f-5db2-4d36-b3ce-6446999ae048@googlegroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6668.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92466 Archived-At: > I had run `apropos' on "shell" and "command", but inexplicably didn't > run it on "process". When I did that now, I didn't see -in Emacs22- > a cmd for listing the system processes. You probably did this anyway, but just a reminder that there are several apropos commands, in particular besides `apropos-command'. In this case you don't want to look only for Emacs *commands* with `process' in the name; you want to look for functions in general, and perhaps even variables too.