Hi Dan, Thank you for your message (Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:06:26 -0500), in which, among other things, you wrote[1]:
>> Details: I'm using the extension dired-x.el, Emacs >> 21.2.1. When in Dired mode I use dired-do-shell-command >> for launching xdvi on a .dvi file. I want to use Emacs >> further while browsing the xdvi window, but that is >> impossible since Emacs waits until the xdvi process is >> terminated. Dan> When I perform a shell command on files, etc. in Dan> emacs, I just put a & after the command. This may be Dan> to simplistic, but it seems to work. Thank you for the suggestion. As Josef explain in post: http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.emacs.sources/browse_thread/thread/74f5eef321a64b60/a0bf8a70d3b85ab5?q=dired-do-shell-command-in-background&rnum=1&hl=de#a0bf8a70d3b85ab5 this solves the problem just partially. Here I also thank Emilio for a similar suggestion. Best regards, luis Footnotes: [1] The excerpts of your message are prefixed by "Dan>". -- Luis Octavio Silva Pereyra. IIMAS-UNAM Depto. de Métodos Matemáticos y Numéricos Apdo. postal 20-726 01000 México, D.F. _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
