Re: dired: launch program withou stalling emacs

[Josef G. Bauer]

Hi,

>>>>> "Alain" == Alain Muls <alain.muls@telenet.be> writes:
    Alain> The inconvenience of this is that I have to close the
    Alain> program before I can resume working in emacs. Is there a
    Alain> possibility to launch the pdfviewer evince and be able to
    Alain> work in emacs without closing the pdfviewer?

here is what I use (in my .emacs):

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(defun dired-do-shell-command-in-background (command)
  "In dired, do shell command in background on the file or directory named on 
this line."
  (interactive
   (list (dired-read-shell-command (concat "& on " "%s: ") nil (list 
(dired-get-filename)))))
  (call-process command nil 0 nil (dired-get-filename)))

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
          (function (lambda ()
                      (load "dired-x")
                      (define-key dired-mode-map "&" 
'dired-do-shell-command-in-background))))

(setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
      (list (list "\\.wav$" "wavesurfer") (list "\\.au$" "wavesurfer") (list 
"\\.pdf$" "acroread")
            (list "\\.doc$" "OOo") (list "\\.xls$" "OOo") (list "\\.tif$" 
"gqview") 
            (list "\\.jpg$" "gqview") (list "\\.html$" "firefox") (list 
"\\.htm$" "firefox")))
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H have posted this before, so you could have found it on the web. ;-)

Greetings

Josef