Execute AppImage Program within Emacs
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yet-another-tim · 2022-03-24 00:37

If I want to execute a program via Emacs, I use "!" followed by "vlc
&" if point is on a video file in Dired, and "mupdf &" if point is on
a pdf.

If I want to launch an AppImage program (Logseq in this case), how
would I do that from within Emacs?

At the very least I would like to be able to "background" the spawned
process (&), so I can continue using Emacs. Even better would be to
also "disown" the process. (I don't know to do this at the moment with
"! vlc &" either)

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J-ky · 2022-03-24 00:56

Use a shell, e.g. eshell, shell mode.
./something.AppImage

If you don’t want to use a shell, maybe you can try async shell
command.

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yet-another-tim · 2022-03-24 01:43

Thanks. shell works fine, bit slow, but I'll probably write a macro to
make it efficient. async shell command didn't work.

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Danrobi1 · 2022-03-24 03:55

> async shell command didn't work

Example:

    (defun elza-browser ()
      "Elza Browser"
      (interactive)
      (call-process-shell-command
"~/.local/bin/ElzaBrowser.Setup.AppImage" nil 0))

Run elza-browser with `M-x elza-browser RET`

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yet-another-tim · 2022-03-24 04:26

Champion.