From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:51:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87hcbkpo0e.fsf@gmail.com> <86y74wzeq1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <874p7ifonh.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 1214376694 13959 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2008 06:51:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Clemente , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 08:52:19 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 1KBOra-0006x2-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:52:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBOqk-0003YQ-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBOqg-0003YJ-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBOqd-0003Y7-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:51:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44774 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBOqd-0003Y4-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:51:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:15627) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBOqZ-00043f-Nw; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64] helo=gate.verona.se) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBOqY-00089B-CU; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from chopper (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id m5P6p25K024541; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:51:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <874p7ifonh.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:05:28 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:99892 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >>> Pity & is already taken for dired-flag-garbage-files. It would be an >>> obvious candidate for starting commands in the background. >> >> Yup. >> >> Does anybody use dired-flag-garbage-files? >> >> It seems dangerously vague... > > Unlike its counterpart commands `#' (flag auto-save files) and > `~' (flag backup files), the key `&' to flag "garbage" files > is not mnemonic. The proposed command to execute a dired command > asynchronously has much better mnemonics for `&'. Then I see > that the key `M-&' is free for the global key binding, so maybe > use it to execute a command asynchronously in any buffer like `M-!'. Sounds great! > 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. -- Joakim Verona