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 * &" _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs