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Re: some dired hints should be background jobs
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John Wiegley |
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Re: some dired hints should be background jobs |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:10:14 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>>>> Dan Jacobson wrote:
> idea, in dired with the cursor on a .pdf file, when we hit ! we get
> ! on man.pdf: [xpdf] [by the way, I just copy-and-pasted that line
> from the minibuffer prompt into this message and can't edit it one
> bit!] OK, but better a better default would be running xpdf in the
> background, for which the user has to type "xpdf * &" which BTW
> creates an distracting Async window. Yes, all that can be
> customized on one's own.
Does "&" do anything on Windows? What should happen then?
John
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