Re: Spawning autonomous shell commands

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Hilary <hils@newearth.demon.co.uk.invalid>
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:49:19 +0100
> 
> > See 'start-process' and 'process-send-region'.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. It looks as though those aren't implemented 
> in the windoze port

Of course, they are.  What made you think they aren't?

> but async-shell-command is. Presumably it's possible to make up an
> async-shell-command-on-region function from the relevent parts of
> simple.el.

Yes, that's another way to go.