From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Clemente Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:20:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87prpba6qj.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87hcbkpo0e.fsf@gmail.com> <86y74wzeq1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <874p7ifonh.fsf@jurta.org> <873amryzdu.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87sku9hdkr.fsf@gmail.com> <87mykh1hpi.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216372880 3698 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 09:21:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:21:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 11:22:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJmAB-0001OH-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:22:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48247 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJm9I-0001bt-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJm97-0001YX-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJm94-0001Uf-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:20:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44416 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJm93-0001UN-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:20:57 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36146 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJm92-0000m5-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KJm8v-0003ur-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:20:49 +0000 Original-Received: from 62.97.110.250 ([62.97.110.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:20:49 +0000 Original-Received: from dcl441-bugs by 62.97.110.250 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:20:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.97.110.250 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2IsCUQ1YO3vh8vZLOf252mx5EmM= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100928 Archived-At: > > I see no better key than moving the current key `&' to the `%' prefix. > > This prefix is intended for regexp commands. And `dired-flag-garbage-files' > is a regexp command: it uses `dired-flag-files-regexp' to flag files > that match `dired-garbage-files-regexp'. > I see this as a very good idea. % & to flag garbage files in dired. > We could even improve the command `dired-flag-garbage-files' to allow the > user to modify its default regexp value in the minibuffer after typing `% &'. > Maybe just if you prefix it with C-u ?