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Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:30:17 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>> I suppose the next step is to do the same for async-shell-command and
>>> bind it to M-& That's in simple.el. A function can read the user's
>>> input, add "&", and pass the command to shell-command.
>>
>> This can be done with the following patch that adds a new command
>> `async-shell-command'. I also noticed that code that sets
>> `minibuffer-default-add-shell-commands' could be moved from the
>> interactive spec of `shell-command' to `read-shell-command' so this
>> feature will be available for all functions that read a shell command
>> from the minibuffer (including a new command `async-shell-command').
>
> This is not such a trivial change, since M-& is bound elsewhere in a
> couple of modes.
I know only that it is bound in the Gnus Summary buffer. But Gnus is
notorious for its abuse of keybindings, so I think this should not be
a reason not to use `M-&' globally.
> Let's leave this for after the release.
There is no hurry with this, so we could install only a new command
without a keybinding, or postpone everything for after the release.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, (continued)
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/06
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Daniel Clemente, 2008/07/16
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/16
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Daniel Clemente, 2008/07/18
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/18
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Mathias Dahl, 2008/07/22
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/22
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Daniel Clemente, 2008/07/29
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/29
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously, Chong Yidong, 2008/07/31
- Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously,
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