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Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
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Leo |
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Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit |
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Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:33:04 +0100 |
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On 2007-09-12 09:58 +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 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
I know this kind of solutions. It is ugly and not general.
> 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.
I haven't seen such post. Any pointers?
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