From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lycomedes 1814 <lycomedes1814@yandex.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Small change] Issue with dired-do-async-shell-command and certain shells
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 21:40:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837ct5v5y7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5571181684433204@mail.yandex.com> (message from Lycomedes 1814 on Thu, 18 May 2023 20:12:45 +0200)
> From: Lycomedes 1814 <lycomedes1814@yandex.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 20:12:45 +0200
>
> 1. Use fish as your system shell.
> 2. Use dired-do-async-shell-command on any file, and type e.g. mpv.
>
> Fish interprets "&wait" as part of the file name, so mpv returns: "[file] Cannot open file '027.wav&wait':
> No such file or directory."
>
> Solution:
>
> In the function dired-shell-stuff-it, replace "&wait" with "& ". Then fish interprets the command
> correctly.
But the "wait" part is there for a reason, so simply removing it is
hardly TRT.
What if we use " & wait" instead, i.e. add a space between & and
"wait"? does the command then work correctly with fish?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-18 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-18 18:12 [Small change] Issue with dired-do-async-shell-command and certain shells Lycomedes 1814
2023-05-18 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-05-18 21:28 ` Lycomedes 1814
2023-05-18 23:22 ` Lycomedes 1814
2023-05-19 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-19 14:54 ` Lycomedes 1814
2023-05-19 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-19 17:15 ` Lycomedes 1814
2023-05-19 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-19 19:01 ` Lycomedes 1814
2023-05-19 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-19 7:23 ` Po Lu
2023-05-19 15:01 ` Lycomedes 1814
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