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: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:12:48 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87r6a549oj.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87hcbkpo0e.fsf@gmail.com> <86y74wzeq1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <874p7ifonh.fsf@jurta.org> <873amryzdu.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <86wsk3kx8f.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87tzf2omvy.fsf@jurta.org> <85hcb26bs3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215469423 14863 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2008 22:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Clemente , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 08 00:24:29 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 1KFz7o-0005Eh-4V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:24:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53585 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFz6w-00046w-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFz6s-00046r-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFz6r-00046f-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43120 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFz6r-00046c-6a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:23:01 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]:61825) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFz6l-0000sE-KD; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KFz6j-000GSB-UC; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:22:54 +0300 In-Reply-To: <85hcb26bs3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:41:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 8abf2c83e696415c40c55866f9369f42 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4246 [July 8 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:100433 Archived-At: >>>> 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. >> >> Garbage bag?! It is a human in NetHack. > > And & is a demon. This suggests leaving the character & for garbage files unchanged. But seriously, if `% d' is used to flag a group of files for deletion, then maybe we can bind `% &' to flagging garbage files instead of `&'? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/