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Re: Detecting a running process in Elisp
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Detecting a running process in Elisp |
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Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:48:34 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:18:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: gentsquash@gmail.com
>
> Thanks, all, for your replies. I realize that I didn't give
> enough information. I'm running
>
> GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
>
> under Mac OS. It appears there is no `list-system-processes' in Emacs22.
Indeed. Why not upgrade?
> Eli Zaretskii
> > From: Drew Adams <drew....@oracle.com>
> > ... That led me to `process-list', which I imagine you
> > can use to get what you want.
>
> These are for processes that Emacs launched. Other processes
> running on the system will not show.
> \________________________________________________________/
>
>
> In a shell, inside Emacs, I can run
>
> open /Applications/ChessJK/ScidvsMac.app
>
> However, I don't think this counts as launching-from-Emacs
It doesn't. Emacs subprocesses are those created by call-process,
call-process-region, and start-process.
> So... If I wanted to "launch" ScidvsMac (a chess database program)
> from Emacs, under Mac OS, how would I do it?
Use start-process. There are commands that use that, from Dired, for
example.
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Re: Detecting a running process in Elisp, gentsquash, 2013/07/26