Matt Price writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am wondering if I can perform and export asynchronously and then, without
> tying up emacs, wait around for the export to finish and then perform
> some other task, like upload the file to a server. Has anyone tried this
> before? I think perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to use async.el or
> some similar third-party, but I can't tell what the preferred method is. I
> would love osme guidance!
>
The asynchronous export should be possible and I've seen some proposed
patches for this discussed recently. The challenge is your second part. In
other languages,
you could use something like a 'future' (Clojure) or a Promise
(Javascript), but I'm not 100% sure with Elisp. I suspect you would need
to create the async process and use the :sentinal option to pass in a
process sentinal function, which is essentially a function that will run
whenever the status of a process changes. The sentinal would need to
watch for a status change which indicates the process has finished and
then call whatever your post-export actions are.
HTH
Tim
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Tim Cross
