Re: Async shell-command-to-string?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Johan Lindström wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'd like to run something similar to shell-command-to-string, but that 
> runs "asynchronously" in a "subprocess" in the "background". I've 
> searched for all those things without finding anything suitable.
>
> async-shell-command-to-string or whatever it would be called would take 
> a callback for the string output when the subprocess is done.
>
> Is there anything like that already?
>
> If not, any hints on how to implement it? The async part of 
> shell-command looks promising to nick.


Look in the Emacs manual:

  (info "(elisp) Processes")