Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Clemente <address@hidden> writes:

>   Hi, I think that in the docstring of method dired-do-shell-command 
> (assigned to key !), it would be useful to add a paragraph like:
>
> ---
>     Emacs will block until the program ends. To execute the command in the 
> background, add `&' to the end of you string, as in `program * &'.
> ---
>
>   For it's not completely obvious, and it's useful if you're opening 
> graphical programs like xpdf, ooffice, a web browser, ...

Pity & is already taken for dired-flag-garbage-files.  It would be an
obvious candidate for starting commands in the background.

-- 
David Kastrup