Re: multiple async-shell-command?

[Thamer Mahmoud]

Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> writes:

> I was just dired-ing a folder of PDFs, where I did
>
>> & evince
>
> to display one. I then tried to display another in the same way, but got
>
>> A command is running. Kill it? (yes or no)
>
> How can I run multiple simultaneous async-shell-command?
> Or is there another/better way to do what I want?
>

I think this problem is caused by Emacs not able to associate multiple
processes to a single output buffer (in this case "*Async Shell
Command*"). To get rid of this message, I wrote Runner.el[1] which also
provides a better "open with" functionality for dired (although you will
need to use the '!' key instead of '&').

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/Runner

hth,
-- 
Thamer