From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:27:09 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87abgfun32.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87hcbkpo0e.fsf@gmail.com> <86y74wzeq1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <874p7ifonh.fsf@jurta.org> <873amryzdu.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87sku9hdkr.fsf@gmail.com> <87mykh1hpi.fsf@jurta.org> <87prpba6qj.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 1216428290 20692 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2008 00:44:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:44:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Clemente Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 19 02:45:38 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 1KK0Zt-0006cA-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:45:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KK0Z0-0007ph-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KK0Yu-0007nO-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KK0Ys-0007nB-2b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36507 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KK0Yr-0007n8-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from anti-4.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.202]:57195) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KK0Yr-0004T4-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by anti-4.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KK0Xb-0004mv-B2; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:44:30 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87prpba6qj.fsf@gmail.com> (Daniel Clemente's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:20:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: c2436a487120708c9e0f2b31fdd4cc45 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4362 [July 19 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:100961 Archived-At: >> I see no better key than moving the current key `&' to the `%' prefix. >> >> This prefix is intended for regexp commands. And `dired-flag-garbage-files' >> is a regexp command: it uses `dired-flag-files-regexp' to flag files >> that match `dired-garbage-files-regexp'. > > I see this as a very good idea. % & to flag garbage files in dired. > >> We could even improve the command `dired-flag-garbage-files' to allow the >> user to modify its default regexp value in the minibuffer after typing `% &'. > > Maybe just if you prefix it with C-u ? C-u will make it inconsistent with a similar command % m (`dired-mark-files-regexp') where a prefix argument means to *unmark* files matching a regexp. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/