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Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs
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tyler |
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Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:30:21 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
dstein64 <DStein64@gmail.com> writes:
> Are there any functions that can launch external programs (not just
> command line programs, but also GUI programs) from Emacs?
>From a shell within Emacs, call the command followed by '&'. You can
also do this from with the 'shell-command' function, which is invoked
with M-!. So, to call a pdf viewer, for example, you could do:
M-! xpdf & <return>
Cheers,
Tyler
> I know that
> I can access a shell, and call a program from there, but then emacs is
> not operable until I close the program. Prepending the command with
> `nohup' is useful, but for some reason it does not work as expected
> with all programs, including emacs. I would prefer another way of
> doing this - using a specific built-in of emacs lisp if one exists.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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- Executing External Programs from Emacs, dstein64, 2009/02/14
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- Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2009/02/14
- Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs, Lennart Borgman, 2009/02/14
- Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs, Michael Albinus, 2009/02/14
- Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs, Xah Lee, 2009/02/14
- Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs,
tyler <=
- Re: Executing External Programs from Emacs, Josef G. Bauer, 2009/02/16