Dired shell command on file asymchronously

Dear Emacs community, Goal: Being in Dired mode I want to apply a shell command to a file asynchronously. Details: 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 xd

Re: asymchronously

Hi Dan, Thank you for your message (Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:06:26 -0500), in which, among other things, you wrote[1]: >> Details: 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

Re: Dired shell command on file asymchronously

Hi Josef, Thank you for your message (24 Jun 2005 14:59:55 +0200), in which, among other things, you wrote[1]: JB> maybe check out my post JB> http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.emacs.sources/browse_thread/thread/74f5eef321a64b60/a0bf8a70d3b85ab5?q=dired-do-shell-command-in-background&rnum