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Subject: Re: Distinguishing between interactive and asynchronous shell
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Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> writes:
>>> In article <m2y65ajluo.fsf@gmail.com>, Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> What's the best way to distinguish asynchronous shell command buffers
>>>> from interactive shell buffers?

> mode-name ?
>
> It would be "Shell" for things started with "shell" and "Fundamental" for things done with shell-command

I hadn't known of that variable, but a quick test shows that its value
is also "Shell" in the buffer *Async Shell Command* after a
shell-command of "ls &".