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Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired
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joakim |
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Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired |
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Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:51:03 +0200 |
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Juri Linkov <address@hidden> 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
- Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Daniel Clemente, 2008/06/23
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, David Kastrup, 2008/06/23
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Miles Bader, 2008/06/23
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Juri Linkov, 2008/06/24
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired,
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- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Miles Bader, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, David Kastrup, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, David Kastrup, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, joakim, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Miles Bader, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, joakim, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Paul R, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Lynbech Christian, 2008/06/26
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, David Kastrup, 2008/06/26
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Phil Jackson, 2008/06/26