From: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
71554@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 07:13:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le2eimdy.fsf@librehacker.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Sat, 06 Jul 2024 06:10:42 +0000 (7 hours, 57 minutes, 5 seconds ago)"
Regarding my workflow, I'm generally using eshell-command for one of three things:
(1) To launch some long running external application, like a torified gemini browser. Always done with "&".
(2) To run some one-off command or pipeline of commands, like capturing the listing of a directory, manipulating some files, or grepping the output of a file and saving that to a buffer. Sometimes I use "&" depending on how quick I think it will be to finish.
(3) Something like the above, but the eshell-command call is inserted as elisp in some interactive function, when it is more convenient than start/call-process for some reason.
Regarding automatically reusing buffers... I lean a little towards not automatically reusing dead buffers, so that I know for sure that some eshell-command call in some other random command I've made doesn't overwrite command output while I am looking at it. My main concern here though is that I might end the work day with 39 dead eshell-command buffers, and not have a convenient way to clear them all out. Off hand, I'm not sure of what command to run which would delete all dead eshell-command buffers but not the live ones.
Regarding use case 3, I just want to mention for sure it would nice, however you set this up, so that I can call eshell-command from lisp, and not have to worry about user (me) being prompted about what to do with buffers. Then I could include eshell-command in timer code or such like and not have to worry about a prompt appearing unexpectedly in my work flow.
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christopher Howard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-06 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-14 13:57 bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior Christopher Howard
2024-06-14 18:53 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-14 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-14 20:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-14 22:49 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-15 5:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-20 7:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-24 5:36 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-24 6:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-24 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 4:09 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 5:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 6:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 12:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 14:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 17:41 ` Jim Porter
2024-07-05 18:44 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 20:23 ` Jim Porter
2024-07-06 2:48 ` Jim Porter
2024-07-06 3:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-06 4:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-06 5:28 ` Jim Porter
2024-07-06 6:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-24 14:15 ` Christopher Howard
2024-07-06 15:13 ` Christopher Howard [this message]
2024-07-06 17:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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