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* async export and then do something with file
@ 2021-04-29 22:00 Matt Price
  2021-04-30  5:36 ` Tim Cross
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From: Matt Price @ 2021-04-29 22:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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!

Thanks,

Matt

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* Re: async export and then do something with file
  2021-04-29 22:00 async export and then do something with file Matt Price
@ 2021-04-30  5:36 ` Tim Cross
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Tim Cross @ 2021-04-30  5:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> 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


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