Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously

[Juri Linkov]

>> I see no better key than moving the current key `&' to the `%' prefix.
>>
>> This prefix is intended for regexp commands.  And `dired-flag-garbage-files'
>> is a regexp command: it uses `dired-flag-files-regexp' to flag files
>> that match `dired-garbage-files-regexp'.
>
>   I see this as a very good idea. % & to flag garbage files in dired.
>
>> We could even improve the command `dired-flag-garbage-files' to allow the
>> user to modify its default regexp value in the minibuffer after typing `% &'.
>
>   Maybe just if you prefix it with C-u ?

C-u will make it inconsistent with a similar command % m 
(`dired-mark-files-regexp')
where a prefix argument means to *unmark* files matching a regexp.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/