Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously

[Daniel Clemente]

>> This plan was not completed. The next step would be to add M-& which
>> would work like M-! but asynchronously.
>>
>> For a summary of the discussion so far, see the parent thread.
>
> This is already implemented in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/99764/focus=101699
> But we have to wait for the next release.


  Sorry, but why do we have to wait to check in features? More than 3 months 
have passed and I don't know if someone else remembers that this issue was 
still not resolved.

  This scenario doesn't happen for instance in Bazaar's development, where a 
tool tracks the patches from the mailing list that are waiting to be merged. 
See: http://bundlebuggy.aaronbentley.com/

  I look forward to the day when Emacs development focuses on an easy 
repository and bug tracker so that we can better control issues and patches...


Daniel