Subject: bug#36331: 26.2; command run using dired-do-async-shell-command cannot take any input

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 05:32:29 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> So I've now changed the command here to be consistent -- never accept
> input (and mentioned this in the doc string for `&').

Sorry if this is a stupid question - but that change seems to make this:

  (require 'dired-aux)
  (dired-do-async-shell-command "xedit" nil '("~/.bashrc"))

behave as if the shell command was executed synchronously (try emacs
-Q).  Is this intended?

TIA,

Michael.