From: Torben Knudsen <tk@es.aau.dk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired-do-shell-command as "bash program"
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:15:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej82vkok.fsf@es.aau.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wtpd4npcmps.fsf@storch.mchp.siemens.de
>>>>> "Josef" == Josef Bauer NOSPAM <Josef.Bauer.NOSPAM@web.de> writes:
I think the below function should be part of emacs somehow
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.
Josef> Hi,
Josef> this is what I use (in my '.emacs'):
Josef> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Josef> (defun dired-do-shell-command-in-background (command) "In
Josef> dired, do shell command in background on the file or directory
Josef> named on this line." (interactive (list
Josef> (dired-read-shell-command (concat "& on " "%s: ") nil (list
Josef> (dired-get-filename))))) (call-process command nil 0 nil
Josef> (dired-get-filename)))
Josef> (add-hook 'dired-load-hook (function (lambda () (load
Josef> "dired-x") (define-key dired-mode-map "&"
Josef> 'dired-do-shell-command-in-background))))
Josef> (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user (list (list "\\.wav$"
Josef> "wavesurfer") (list "\\.au$" "wavesurfer") (list "\\.pdf$"
Josef> "acroread") (list "\\.doc$" "OOo" ) (list "\\.xls$" "OOo")
Josef> (list "\\.tif$" "gqview") (list "\\.jpg$" "gqview")))
Josef> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Josef> In dired (over the respective file) press '&' to start a shell
Josef> command in the background. Command completion is the same as in
Josef> 'dired-do-shell-command'.
Josef> I had posted this long ago in Usenet but Google does not find
Josef> it any more :-(
Josef> Greetings
Josef> Josef
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-16 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-09 6:37 dired-do-shell-command as "bash program" Torben Knudsen
2008-05-09 7:06 ` David Hansen
2008-05-09 14:42 ` Rodrigo Lazo
[not found] ` <mailman.11364.1210316908.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-13 8:02 ` Torben Knudsen
2008-05-13 12:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.11546.1210682964.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-14 7:13 ` Torben Knudsen
[not found] ` <mailman.11380.1210346409.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-13 8:04 ` Torben Knudsen
2008-05-14 8:29 ` Josef.Bauer.NOSPAM
2008-05-16 6:12 ` Torben Knudsen
2008-05-16 6:15 ` Torben Knudsen [this message]
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