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Re: dired: launch program withou stalling emacs


From: suvayu ali
Subject: Re: dired: launch program withou stalling emacs
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:39:39 -0700

2009/7/20 Alain Muls <alain.muls@telenet.be>:
> Hi
>
> I am learning to use dired for file operations. I found out how to launch a
> program associated with the extension using eg
>
> (require 'dired-x)
> (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
>      '(("\\.pdf$" "evince")))
>
> The inconvenience of this is that I have to close the program before I can
> resume working in emacs. Is there a possibility to launch the pdfviewer
> evince and be able to work in emacs without closing the pdfviewer?
>

If you are on GNU/Linux you can try `! xdg-open RET'.

-- 
Suvayu

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