Re: [bongo-devel] Re: Dired-like binding of `!'

[Daniel Brockman]

address@hidden (Daniel Jensen) writes:

> Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I wrote a command for that a long time ago but I never
>>> used it, I just open a Dired buffer.
>>
>> Was there any particular reason why you never used it?
>
> The first reason was that I never completed the command. This was
> before marks, so I could only make it work in the region anyway.

Ah.

> The second reason was that I just didn't find the need.
> I forgot about it and used Dired instead. Besides, Dired
> is pretty good for doing stuff on files.

Okay.

>> By the way, consider the difference between `!' and `M-& !',
>> given some active marking.
>>
>> If `M-&' were to kill the marking first, then those commands
>> would behave differently, but both would be useful.
>
> I don't get this. Why would you use `M-& !'?

Presumably, `!' would prompt for a single command to execute
on all tracks.

To get one prompt for each track, you could use `M-& !'.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>