From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:59:17 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87hcbkpo0e.fsf@gmail.com> <86y74wzeq1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <874p7ifonh.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214377192 15781 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2008 06:59:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Daniel Clemente , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 09:00:26 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 1KBOzR-0000Wd-E3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:00:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45343 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBOyb-0008Aj-Ub for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBOyX-0008AP-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBOyW-0008A6-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40344 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBOyW-0008A3-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:16262) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBOyS-00058A-Co; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBOyQ-0000yO-M7; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.46]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m5P6xEBq029040; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:59:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:59:17 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:59:17 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 5D1DB429; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:59:17 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:51:03 +0200") Original-Lines: 16 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:99893 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se writes: >> Another usual problem for newbies to how to execute multiple >> commands asynchronously. The trick is to rename the existing >> buffer *Async Shell Command*, but this is unobvious. > > Many times I thought to myself I'd prepare a patch to let the async > buffer be renamed when prefixing c-u, like shell buffers, but I've never > gotten around to it. I'd like C-u to just discard output, since 99% of the time, that's what people really want these days. Actually I'd like to make that default. -Miles -- "1971 pickup truck; will trade for guns"