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From: Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:36:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc9f3t$els$1@tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.746.1189587514.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-12 21:36 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
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 [this message]
2007-09-13  8:51 ` William Xu
2007-10-06  8:28   ` Leo

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