From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Clemente Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:13:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87hcbkpo0e.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 1214211323 14355 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2008 08:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:55:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 10:56:05 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 1KAhqH-0005Va-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:56:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhpS-0003MN-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhpM-0003Lq-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhpK-0003LH-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49504 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhpJ-0003Kz-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38212 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KAhpJ-0000kf-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhpG-0001Sr-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 62.97.110.250 ([62.97.110.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: from dcl441-bugs by 62.97.110.250 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:55:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.97.110.250 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pu8tC/2HeFCoZ+lXZpzh4HaGQJA= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:99764 Archived-At: Hi, I think that in the docstring of method dired-do-shell-command (assigned to key !), it would be useful to add a paragraph like: --- Emacs will block until the program ends. To execute the command in the background, add `&' to the end of you string, as in `program * &'. --- For it's not completely obvious, and it's useful if you're opening graphical programs like xpdf, ooffice, a web browser, ... Thanks, Daniel