From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired and ls
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:01:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a8mvdd3l.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2lzdesb.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:25:24 +1100")
>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> That's true. With "ls" the opportunity for async behaviour is greater. I
> don't think dired currently is async, but it could be...
See dired-async.el for some attempts. For example, you can mark multiple
large files for copy, and when you execute the copy it colors them all yellow
(for "in progress"), and removes the coloring as each one is completed. It
still need a decent interface for canceling operations in progress, though.
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-20 1:15 Human-readable file sorting Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 1:58 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 2:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 2:33 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 6:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 6:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20 7:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-22 18:09 ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-02-22 21:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-23 6:13 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-23 8:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-24 5:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20 6:17 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 7:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 10:24 ` martin rudalics
2016-02-20 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 17:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-20 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-20 6:16 ` dired and ls (was: Human-readable file sorting) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 6:19 ` dired and ls John Wiegley
2016-02-20 7:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:01 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-02-23 7:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2016-02-23 16:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 9:57 ` dired and ls (was: Human-readable file sorting) Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 19:21 ` dired and ls John Wiegley
2016-02-20 21:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 21:24 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-21 2:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:53 ` Human-readable file sorting Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 2:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 2:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 18:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 18:13 ` Pierpaolo Bernardi
2016-02-22 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-23 17:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-23 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 1:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 13:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-24 13:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 14:23 ` Alexis
2016-02-20 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 2:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 9:30 ` Alexis
2016-02-21 10:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 19:27 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-21 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 15:35 ` Pierpaolo Bernardi
2016-02-20 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 12:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 16:03 ` Herring, Davis
2016-02-20 16:23 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-21 2:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 12:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-21 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-20 14:32 ` Richard Stallman
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