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Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:05:28 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> Pity & is already taken for dired-flag-garbage-files. It would be an
>> obvious candidate for starting commands in the background.
>
> Yup.
>
> Does anybody use dired-flag-garbage-files?
>
> It seems dangerously vague...
Unlike its counterpart commands `#' (flag auto-save files) and
`~' (flag backup files), the key `&' to flag "garbage" files
is not mnemonic. The proposed command to execute a dired command
asynchronously has much better mnemonics for `&'. Then I see
that the key `M-&' is free for the global key binding, so maybe
use it to execute a command asynchronously in any buffer like `M-!'.
Another usual problem for newbies to how to execute multiple
commands asynchronously. The trick is to rename the existing
buffer *Async Shell Command*, but this is unobvious.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, David Kastrup, 2008/06/23
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- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, joakim, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Miles Bader, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, David Kastrup, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, David Kastrup, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, joakim, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Miles Bader, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, joakim, 2008/06/25
- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, Paul R, 2008/06/25
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- Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired, David Kastrup, 2008/06/26