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Re: Load other program from emacs
From: |
Barry Margolin |
Subject: |
Re: Load other program from emacs |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:57:45 GMT |
In article <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311051827170.2388@NingNing>,
Li Chen <cli2@student.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>Is there any method which can load other programs within emacs and
>return the control to emacs immediately instead leave emacs waiting
>until that program was ended?
>
>I can invoke a program within emacs using shell command and shell buffer,
>however, both of them lock the emacs and wait for the end of invoked
>program.
If you end the command line with "&", the command will be run in the
background and control will return immediately, just as in an ordinary
shell.
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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
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