[gmane.emacs.help] emacs waiting for external program to exit

[Leo]

I posted this as a question to emacs-help. It looks like the behavior is
wrong and thus I post it here.

N.B. there is a solution posted in article:

<87abrrx817.fsf@gmail.com> by William Xu

HTH,
Leo

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> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:20:05 +0100
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> Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.50 (20070901) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi there,
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> If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
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> Is there anyway I can't avoid that i.e. I'd like to be able to continue
> using the same Emacs session?
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> Thanks,
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> =>             "(require 'cl) considered harmful" considered harmful
> =>           http://dto.freeshell.org/blog/blog-2007-09-07-2323.html
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