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 19:16:10 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200303030116.TAA07861@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200303010341.VAA06801@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200303030033.SAA07827@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046654139 2704 80.91.224.249 (3 Mar 2003 01:15:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 01:15:39 +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 18peYJ-0000hL-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 02:15:35 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18peqw-0005Jr-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 02:34:50 +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 18peYT-0001Qx-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 20:15:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18peY5-0001Mp-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 20:15:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18peY2-0001Hh-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 20:15:20 -0500 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18peY2-0001Fr-00; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 20:15:18 -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 TAA29712; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:15:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id TAA07861; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:16:10 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-reply-to: <200303030033.SAA07827@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:33:00 -0600 (CST)) Original-cc: johnw@gnu.org 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:12072 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12072 To avoid confusion, the command I was talking about in my previous postings could not possibly be used as a default for ! in dired-x, since it would be an Elisp command, not a shell command. I do not view the problem as being about what the correct default for ! in dired-x should be, but instead about what the most convenient (and portable) way to launch programs like xpdf and friends, in the background, from dired should be. As such, I am thinking of either changing dired's `v' binding to launch the commands asynchronously instead of synchronously, or of introducing a separate binding, say M-RETURN, for the asynchronous version of the current `v'. Sincerely, Luc.