Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > New (experimental) exporter has now support for asynchronous export. > Every type of export is supported (subtree, to a buffer, visible part > only...). > > When produced, results are listed in the Export Stack (they will never > make a buffer pop or call an external application). The stack can be > accessed from the dispatcher interface, by calling dispatcher with > a double C-u argument, or directly with `org-export-stack'. > > From there, output results can be viewed or removed from the stack. > Removing a result from the stack only removes it from view. No file is > deleted, no buffer is killed. > > You may want to tweak `org-export-in-background' and > `org-export-async-init-file'. You can also toggle > `org-export-async-debug' for debugging purposes.
This works great! I took the presentation I was building, set `org-export-in-background' to `t', and I could go and edit some mail while it was compiling. Thanks a lot, this will be most useful! Alan