Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi everyone, > > I am wondering if I can perform and export asynchronously and then, without > tying up emacs, wait around for the export to finish and then perform > some other task, like upload the file to a server. Has anyone tried this > before? I think perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to use async.el or > some similar third-party, but I can't tell what the preferred method is. I > would love osme guidance! > The asynchronous export should be possible and I've seen some proposed patches for this discussed recently. The challenge is your second part. In other languages, you could use something like a 'future' (Clojure) or a Promise (Javascript), but I'm not 100% sure with Elisp. I suspect you would need to create the async process and use the :sentinal option to pass in a process sentinal function, which is essentially a function that will run whenever the status of a process changes. The sentinal would need to watch for a status change which indicates the process has finished and then call whatever your post-export actions are. HTH Tim -- Tim Cross
