Re: asymchronously

[Dan Elliott]

Luis O. Silva wrote:
> Dear Emacs community,
>
> Goal:
> Being in Dired mode I want to apply a shell command to a file
> asynchronously.
>
> Details:
> I'm using the extension dired-x.el, Emacs 21.2.1. When in
> Dired mode I use dired-do-shell-command for launching xdvi on
> a .dvi file. I want to use Emacs further while browsing the
> xdvi window, but that is impossible since Emacs waits until
> the xdvi process is terminated.

When I perform a shell command on files, etc. in emacs, I just put a & 
after the command.  This may be to simplistic, but it seems to work.

- dan