From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:45:04 +0200 Message-ID: <86wsk3kx8f.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <87hcbkpo0e.fsf@gmail.com> <86y74wzeq1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <874p7ifonh.fsf@jurta.org> <873amryzdu.fsf_-_@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215085536 444 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2008 11:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Clemente Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 13:46:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KENGL-0005wF-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:46:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KENFU-0005H4-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KENFP-0005EL-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KENFN-0005Bf-L8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32936 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KENFN-0005BH-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]:37274) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KENFM-0007ZU-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 25160 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2008 11:45:05 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by quinx.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Jul 2008 11:45:05 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 90ABD8F1CC; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:45:04 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <873amryzdu.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (Daniel Clemente's message of "Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:34:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.8.0.64; VDF: 7.0.5.42; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100294 Archived-At: Daniel Clemente writes: > What's the status of this feature? Several problems were tackled and several suggestions were proposed, but no consensus was reached. > > Discussion brought following topics: > > - & in dired is not intuitive for dired-flag-garbage-files Some alternatives that are not taken are ",", "@", "'", "`". The garbage bag symbol "@" might be suitable. -- David Kastrup