Running in the background

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From: David Smith
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 00:39

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Is there a way to get Gnu Emacs to run functions in the background or
in parallel? Sometimes I need to run a complex macro on a large buffer,
which can take quite a while. During this time I would like to be editing
other buffers or escaping to the shell, but I can't.

Or can I?

Dave.

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|David Smith                                <dsmith@spam.ua.oz.au>|
|Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide, South Australia|
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