From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>,
christopher@librehacker.com, 71554@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:32:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ed8z8duo.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86tthvwdxp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 14 Jun 2024 21:56:50 +0300")
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: 71554@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
>> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:53:07 +0000
>>
>> Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hello, I run a lot of async commands a lot with eshell-command,
>> > preferring it over shell-command. However, there is a difference
>> > between shell-command and eshell-command behavior which is a little
>> > bothersome and does not make sense to me. If I run an async command
>> > with shell-command, e.g. `sleep 60 &', and then run another one while
>> > the first one is still running, shell-command will ask me if I want to
>> > create a new buffer for the output, and I usually do. However, if I do
>> > the same thing with eshell-command, eshell command will give me only
>> > two options, either (1) kill the currently running command, or (2)
>> > don't create an output buffer, which also throws an error. I was
>> > wondering if it would be possible to add the "create a new buffer"
>> > option to eshell-command as well, for the upcoming 30 release.
>>
>> Please do not add a "ask to create a new buffer" option to fix this
>> issue, just do not ask and create a new buffer
>
> What if the user is not aware that a command is already running?
The user can easily see there is already a buffer with a process running.
Eshell doesn't kill its async buffers.
> More generally, why being consistent with what shell-command does is
> not a good idea?
Because IMO what shell-command is doing is annoying, no need to duplicate
this annoyance, after all when running such a command in a terminal
already running a detached process, nothing is asked, so why doing this
in emacs?
Or at least make it optional?
--
Thierry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-14 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-14 13:57 bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior Christopher Howard
2024-06-14 18:53 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-14 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-14 20:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2024-06-14 22:49 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-15 5:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-20 7:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-24 5:36 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-24 6:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-24 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 4:09 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 5:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 6:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 12:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 14:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 17:41 ` Jim Porter
2024-07-05 18:44 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-05 20:23 ` Jim Porter
2024-07-06 2:48 ` Jim Porter
2024-07-06 3:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-06 4:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-06 5:28 ` Jim Porter
2024-07-06 6:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-06-24 14:15 ` Christopher Howard
2024-07-06 15:13 ` Christopher Howard
2024-07-06 17:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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