Re: dired shell command on background

[Josef . Bauer . NOSPAM]

    rodrigo> I've seen something called
    rodrigo> dired-do-background-shell-command on some pages about
    rodrigo> tree-dired but I have no idea what it is about

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$" "snack") (list "\\.au$" "snack") (list "\\.pdf$" 
"acroread")
            (list "\\.doc$" "OOo" ) (list "\\.xls$" "OOo")))

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Once in dired-mode over e.g. a PDF file press '&' and proceed.

Regards

Josef