From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:33:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189589738 26445 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2007 09:35:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:35:38 +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 11:35:36 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 1IVOd4-0002qZ-Tp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:35:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVOd4-00069E-HR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVOca-00068g-Vn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVOcZ-000675-1E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVOcY-00066e-Ot for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] 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 1IVOcY-0005Sp-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IVOcM-0006Ae-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:34:42 +0200 Original-Received: from accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.92.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:34:42 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:34:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAGFBMVEUKDAg1NjRWV1V9fnyg op/DxcLk5uP8/voi63ReAAAACXBIWXMAAAWJAAAFiQFtaJ36AAAAB3RJTUUH1goZAgAz00bgXgAA AeVJREFUKM9lk0Fz2jAQhQXJD3CCO70CmcC1YMtcWyTZ14Bl69xats4N9r6/3zWQBlodNKNPu/s0 b1cCQFuZGpfVVh3vAvBJolIXRkapSuoRUtIdFyo1Y5xSdlAj7OtvD1XnXxmWRi+eWgcxyCed1lVV B1CrKyujMoi+eLA5kU1SsjoHlW+nQjTtFxk4MXgrOxvIqzoTZR8XgPaLl419zgsMaSGFPiUOZCIh thsx5Xy9NsK8Kwf/JoQgMxcVJ301HKkcSWaT0O7FY056J4U9xcYfnmVXG4801lW6lqwu2nKFZoHC HuzvaTVndZ+LaRQgZdthXw1cpynEkLEwyFHXk/aIxNQ6QeooJuzPMB+wn+D7JJNsiCcVA13/A3h/ xE9J+WidpAwoYNmRFwyvSRhNVtsdaAewzZZP5uw82QL9+tyNfocyP0McAzICUr5Mk9RdIjWasUNx aIIt6NK4ZtXIMdfMQt3nuMAyWbLI4DqZ4xPq/ag8jPond4XU/cLuOgw6XCFX/YCUfcDAMMH58fD4 G9kDchwfqVefkBwup2uZM+Q4WhJt5jN3AxXCsaS2yXEDuWgS8VOzW0gFjhEPmLyFMKBFaLb1HRwc DiaKwx0EeTMRYnYPQRW3PP4HApvlMv0PttX5v/D6Aws3IOSEwzmLAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.50 (20070901) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SqGaaiRGQP6b2ujJT9u6KZkX1DE= X-Detected-Kernel: 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:47525 Archived-At: 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? -- .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ] :. => "(require 'cl) considered harmful" considered harmful => http://dto.freeshell.org/blog/blog-2007-09-07-2323.html