Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2007-09-13 09:51 +0100, William Xu wrote:
> Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
>> program exits.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can't avoid that i.e. I'd like to be able to continue
>> using the same Emacs session?
>
> Just redefining `dired-run-shell-command' by replacing shell-command
> works for me.
>
> ,----
> | (require 'dired-aux)
> | 
> | (defun xwl-shell-command-asynchronously (cmd)
> |   (start-process-shell-command cmd nil cmd))
> | 
> | ;; Run shell command at background
> | (defun dired-run-shell-command (command)
> |   (let ((handler
> | 	 (find-file-name-handler
> | 	  (directory-file-name default-directory)
> | 	  'shell-command)))
> |     (if handler
> | 	(apply handler 'shell-command (list command))
> |       ;; (shell-command command)))
> |       (xwl-shell-command-asynchronously command))) ; xwl
> |   ;; Return nil for sake of nconc in dired-bunch-files.
> |   nil)
> `----

Thanks! I just re-define dired-run-shell-command in my .emacs

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