From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fabian Braennstroem Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:36:31 +0000 Organization: FernUni Hagen Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189629736 11235 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2007 20:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:42:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 12 22:42:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IVZ2F-0001Zs-9E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVZ2E-0004V1-Lm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:42:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de!news.fernuni-hagen.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e4b2c4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Original-X-Trace: tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de 1189625789 15036 217.228.178.196 (12 Sep 2007 19:36:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@fernuni-hagen.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:36:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152030 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47540 Archived-At: 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