Re: eshell and jobs

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Michael Spittel <mspittel@kite.ssc.wisc.edu> writes:

> But when I put in the code you suggested into my .emacs, eshell
> still told me the job was done in the command line, and it did not
> create a new buffer by the name of *eshell.job.finished*.  In other
> words, it behaved as the eshell we all know and love :-)

Make sure the code snippit is evaluated *after* eshell is loaded,
not before...

> I know I'm going to show my utter ignorance for elisp in the
> following question, but is there anything inherently 'wrong' with
> using the code that Kai suggested?

Nope, not if you don't mind typing "ec" before your commands.  I use
a similar command called "start", which disowns the process so that
it doesn't die if Emacs should go away.

John