From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:33:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sl5k9qjz.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D3E626BC-9291-491F-992D-7396B1C4DDED@Web.DE
On 2007-09-12 09:58 +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 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
I know this kind of solutions. It is ugly and not general.
> 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.
I haven't seen such post. Any pointers?
--
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=> "(require 'cl) considered harmful" considered harmful
=> http://dto.freeshell.org/blog/blog-2007-09-07-2323.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 9:33 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 [this message]
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
2007-09-13 8:51 ` William Xu
2007-10-06 8:28 ` Leo
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