From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emilio Lopes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired shell command on file asymchronously Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:42:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <17083.13314.923118.23889@mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119614636 29329 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2005 12:03:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 14:03:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlmu1-0007iI-Vr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:03:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dln13-0001rY-7m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlmtn-0007rD-Dx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:03:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlmtj-0007pb-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlmtJ-0007Lh-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dlmkb-0005W7-TR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DlmaR-0003EE-BG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:43:07 +0200 Original-Received: from vproxy01.bmwgroup.com ([192.109.190.88]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:43:07 +0200 Original-Received: from eclig by vproxy01.bmwgroup.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:43:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 192.109.190.88 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4) 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:27628 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27628 Luis O. Silva mail.ru> writes: > I'm using the extension dired-x.el, Emacs 21.2.1. When in > Dired mode I use dired-do-shell-command for launching xdvi on > a .dvi file. I want to use Emacs further while browsing the > xdvi window, but that is impossible since Emacs waits until > the xdvi process is terminated. Append an ampersand ("&") to the command, e.g. "xdvi * &"