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Re: dired: launch program withou stalling emacs
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muede |
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Re: dired: launch program withou stalling emacs |
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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:43:52 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Jul 20, 3:49 pm, Alain Muls <alain.m...@telenet.be> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am learning to use dired for file operations. I found out how to
> launch a program associated with the extension using eg
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> (require 'dired-x)
> (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
> '(("\\.pdf$" "evince")))
>
> The inconvenience of this is that I have to close the program before I
> can resume working in emacs. Is there a possibility to launch the
> pdfviewer evince and be able to work in emacs without closing the pdfviewer?
>
> Tx/Alain
Run it in the background.
(setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
'(("\\.pdf$" "evince * &")))
-ap