On 31/05/2024 21:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 19:24:10 +0300 >> Cc:michael.albinus@gmx.de,71049@debbugs.gnu.org >> From: Dmitry Gutov >> >> On 31/05/2024 08:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >>>> 1) [first patch] We can add a new major mode, for 'M-&' to use instead >>>> of the full-blown 'shell-mode' - it could be very simple: just apply >>>> font-lock keywords and maybe set list-buffers-directory. >>> I think I'm okay with this. (It needs to be prominently documented, >>> of course.) >> In NEWS? > There, but also in the doc string of M-&, and maybe also in the doc > string of shell-mode-hook. > >>> But we need a documented way for people to get previous >>> behavior if they want that. How would that work? >> If we really needed the capability to rollback the change, I suppose we >> could add a defvar pointing to the major mode to use. I.e. >> >> (defvar async-shell-command-major-mode #'shell-command-mode) > That could work, yes. How about this?