From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Torben Knudsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired-do-shell-command as "bash program" Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:02:15 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87k5hyskc8.fsf@es.aau.dk> References: <87od7gf0fg.fsf@es.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210668080 12309 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2008 08:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:41:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 13 10:41:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jvq4z-0006Rr-9h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 10:41:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jvq4F-00038L-R3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 04:41:04 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mfXZkTok6rTjJ2lQLiI2dxTUieU= Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.38.50.63 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=HN]k[]RVoToPEW:6ooR3ldYSB=nbEKnkk4?N7_EgM4be_Eg>6@:AacbQ4Wb_SHY3ode]OKllF2]Ti Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158588 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53955 Archived-At: >>>>> "David" == David Hansen writes: David> On Fri, 09 May 2008 08:37:07 +0200 Torben Knudsen wrote: >> How can i do dired-do-shell-command as "bash program" in the sense >> that I can keep working with my emacs also when the started program >> runs just as it was started from a shell with a & at the end. David> Append a `&'. `*' and `?' are interpreted as one would expect. David> E.g. for a single file do "program ? &" if you have marked David> multiple files: "program * &". Works fine but I use defaults from dired-guess-shell-alist-user and I can't figure out how to avoid typing the default myself to get this working. If I type the command myself it works perfectly. David> One drawback is that you can only run one async shell command David> at the time or you have to rename the output buffer. Not a big problem for me. Thanks for the answer. -- Associate Prof. Ph.D Torben Knudsen Mobile : (+45) 2787 9826 Section of Automation and Control, Email : tk@es.aau.dk Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University Fredrik Bajersvej 7 DK-9220 Aalborg Ø Denmark