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Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
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Fabian Braennstroem |
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Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit |
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Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:36:31 +0000 |
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Hi,
Peter Dyballa schrieb am 09/12/2007 08:58 AM:
> Am 12.09.2007 um 10:20 schrieb Leo:
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>> If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
>> program exits.
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> Can't you put evince into the background? Either use a shell script
> as go-between 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.
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or use 'call-process', their are some alsaplayer example on
emacswiki.
Regards!
Fabian