Luis O. Silva <l.o.silva <at> mail.ru> writes:

> 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.

Append an ampersand ("&") to the command, e.g. "xdvi * &"



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