Re: dired-do-shell-command as "bash program"

[Josef.Bauer.NOSPAM@web.de]

    Rodrigo> http://www.jgk.org/src/background.el

    Torben> I have taken a look but I have difficulties to find doc
    Torben> telling what it does and how it compares to
    Torben> dired-do-shell-command.

Hi,

this is what I use (in my '.emacs'):

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(defun dired-do-shell-command-in-background (command)
  "In dired, do shell command in background on the file or directory named on this line."
  (interactive
   (list (dired-read-shell-command (concat "& on " "%s: ") nil (list (dired-get-filename)))))
  (call-process command nil 0 nil (dired-get-filename)))

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
	  (function (lambda ()
		      (load "dired-x")
		      (define-key dired-mode-map "&" 'dired-do-shell-command-in-background))))

(setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
      (list (list "\\.wav$" "wavesurfer") (list "\\.au$" "wavesurfer") (list "\\.pdf$" "acroread")
	    (list "\\.doc$" "OOo" ) (list "\\.xls$" "OOo") (list "\\.tif$" "gqview") (list "\\.jpg$" "gqview")))

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In dired (over the respective file) press '&' to start a shell command
in the background. Command completion is the same as in
'dired-do-shell-command'.

I had posted this long ago in Usenet but Google does not find it any more
:-(

Greetings

Josef