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Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously
From: |
Daniel Clemente |
Subject: |
Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:33:42 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>
> There is no term "background" in the existing Emacs documentation,
> so it is better to use the term "asynchronously" like in the
> docstring of `shell-command':
>
Ok. But I find „the program executes synchronously“ not so descriptive as
saying that „Emacs remains blocked until the program ends“. Many users will be
reading that documentation when they wonder why Emacs is blocked after opening
evince or firefox.