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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Running processes in the background...
Message-ID: <1481@cullvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 11:13:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: cullvax.1481
Posted: Fri Aug 21 11:13:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 01:26:43 EDT
Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA
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ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram) writes:
> I'd like to be able to start a process
> in the background, and have some emacs-lisp code executed after it finishes.

Try:

set-process-sentinel:
Give PROCESS the sentinel SENTINEL; nil for none.
The sentinel is called as a function when the process changes state.
It gets two arguments: the process, and a string describing the
change.

Dale
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