From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: some dired hints should be background jobs Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:30:26 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200303022330.RAA07753@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200303010341.VAA06801@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <87smu52zeh.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046647993 16755 80.91.224.249 (2 Mar 2003 23:33:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 23:33:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pcxC-0004Lu-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:33:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18pdFn-0004JU-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:52:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pcwJ-0002FJ-0B for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 18:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pcvv-000298-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 18:31:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pcun-0000fq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 18:30:41 -0500 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pctj-0000Gd-00; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 18:29:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA29492; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:29:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA07753; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:30:26 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: johnw@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87smu52zeh.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (message from John Wiegley on Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:10:14 -0700) Original-cc: jidanni@dman.ddts.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12069 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12069 John Wiegley wrote: Does "&" do anything on Windows? What should happen then? I know so little about MS Windows (I use GNU/Linux) that I do not really understand the above. Do you mean we could not make "xpdf * &" the default because MS Windows does not understand & and hence it would not be portable? Does MS Windows have a notion of job control? It must have a notion of asynchronous command since it is a windowing system. Sincerely, Luc.