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: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:54:01 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tzf2omvy.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215371468 3624 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2008 19:11:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:11:08 +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 Sun Jul 06 21:11:54 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 1KFZeM-0002xI-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:11:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFZdU-0002oT-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:11:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFZcn-0002aF-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFZcm-0002a3-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55641 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFZcm-0002Zw-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from anti-4.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.202]:51399) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFZcj-0004RQ-7P; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:13 -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 1KFZch-000PFv-4l; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:10:11 +0300 In-Reply-To: <86wsk3kx8f.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:45:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: ef6c50392af5ec65634338665e82f3c2 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4235s [July 6 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:100393 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. Garbage bag?! It is a human in NetHack. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/