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23.1; M-& to run commands asynchronously (async-shell-command)

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: dcl441-bugs <at> yahoo.com
Subject: bug#4719: closed (Re: bug#4719: 23.1; M-& to run commands
 asynchronously (async-shell-command))
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:23:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#4719: 23.1; M-& to run commands asynchronously (async-shell-command)

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dcl441-bugs <at> yahoo.com, 4719-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#4719: 23.1;
	M-& to run commands asynchronously (async-shell-command)
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 03:04:12 +0300

>> So I propose a minimal change that just removes the current annoyance
>> where async-shell-command asks to kill the buffer instead of doing
>> something more constructive like creating a new buffer for running
>> another asynchronous command.
>>
>> This is implemented in the patch below.
>
> Patch looks fine to me.

Installed and closed.

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From: Daniel Clemente <dcl441-bugs <at> yahoo.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; M-& to run commands asynchronously (async-shell-command)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:10:19 -0700 (PDT)

I propose to add a new function, async-shell-command, bound to M-&, which in analogous to shell-command (bound to M-!) but executes the command in the background (as if you had written an ampersand at the end of M-!).
Both functions would respectively correspond to keys ! and & in dired, only that ! and & work only in dired but M-! and M-& would be global (work everywhere).

The code is in this message in an old thread:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/111825

There are still some details to decide: how many buffers to open, where to direct STDOUT, whether output should be visible, …

Some modes should be checked since they might be using M-&.

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