[h-e-w] dired-execute-file

[Henrik Andersson]

When press 'X' on a file in dired mode it starts the default program for 
this filetype, which is all very nice, but emacs is waiting patiently 
until this program is closed until I can do anything further in emacs, 
this makes it very unhandy as a general file browser.

Is there a way to get emacs to avoid waiting on the application?

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Henrik Andersson
Netherlands Institute of Ecology -
Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology
P.O. Box 140
4400 AC Yerseke
Phone: +31 113 577473
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http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/ppages/handersson