From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Asynchronous commands with eshell-command Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:09:02 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233072713 23050 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 16:11:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:11:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 17:13:06 2009 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 1LRqXe-0007ml-5f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:11:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRqWM-0007DB-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:10:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRqT4-0005kn-RI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRqT3-0005ja-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33546 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRqT3-0005jU-6h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:07:13 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45234 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRqT2-0005gn-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LRqT2-0002pZ-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:07:12 +0000 Original-Received: from vps203.linuxvps.org ([91.186.7.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:07:12 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by vps203.linuxvps.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:07:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: vps203.linuxvps.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:du9EzlkAKCkbG/dvjTICjOrW6tg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61703 Archived-At: Quoth Michael Heerdegen : > Does anybody know how to start external commands asynchronously with > `eshell-command'? I tried `xterm &' for example, which works but also > raises an error. > > The source code seems to support the asynchronous case, but I don't > know what to type. Where's Thierry Volpiatto when you need him :) Sebastian -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap