Re: dired-do-shell-command as "bash program"

[Kevin Rodgers]

Torben Knudsen wrote:
> > > > > > "David" == David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
>
> David> On Fri, 09 May 2008 08:37:07 +0200 Torben Knudsen wrote:
> > > How can i do dired-do-shell-command as "bash program" in the sense
> > > that I can keep working with my emacs also when the started program
> > > runs just as it was started from a shell with a & at the end.
>
> David> Append a `&'.  `*' and `?' are interpreted as one would expect.
> David> E.g. for a single file do "program ? &" if you have marked
> David> multiple files: "program * &".
>
> Works fine but I use defaults from dired-guess-shell-alist-user and I
> can't figure out how to avoid typing the default myself to get this
> working.  If I type the command myself it works perfectly.

`M-n' should insert the default in the minibuffer, for any command.

> David> One drawback is that you can only run one async shell command
> David> at the time or you have to rename the output buffer.
>
> Not a big problem for me.
>
> Thanks for the answer.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA