# Managing background processes from Kakoune

**URL:** <https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/managing-background-processes-from-kakoune/1060>\
**Category:** Plugins\
**Tags:** plugins\
**Created:** [June 5, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/managing-background-processes-from-kakoune/1060 "2020-06-05T10:08:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/managing-background-processes-from-kakoune/1060/1 "2020-06-05T10:08:31Z")

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> **[Managing background processes from Kakoune](https://andreyorst.gitlab.io/posts/2020-06-05-managing-background-processes-from-kakoune/)**
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> While working on my previous post I was mainly using Emacs, because it has the best support for Lisp languages. It has great integration with the REPL, can run a server for my application in the background, and so on. And actually, I use this a lot...

> [@REPLs with rlwrap, and sending code to be evaluated by REPLs](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/repls-with-rlwrap-and-sending-code-to-be-evaluated-by-repls/1054/10):
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> This also got me thinking about a plugin that will allow running tasks from kakoune and managing PIDs of those tasks within Kakoune. We kinda do this with `make` or `ctags` but those terminate automatically.