lazy Printing question

[Glynn Clements]

AJ wrote:

> Ok so I added the "hSetBuffering stdout NoBuffering" line to my main
> function and still got the same 'nonlazy' behaviour, or so I thought. 
> It took me some time to figure out what was going on. I am using emacs
> to write my code and I was calling a.out from inside it. Obviously it
> was emacs that was holding back the output until the program
> terminated! Now I feel kinda stupid :-(
> 
> Anyway since I am also lazy enough to dislike switching back to the
> shell whenever I want to test my programs, here is another question -
> how do I make emacs give me the output AS AND WHEN it recieves it?

If you put an ampersand ("&") after the command, Emacs will run it in
the background.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>