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Use *command (&)* instead of shell-command-buffer-name(-async)

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From: Nafiz Islam <nafiz.islam1001 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 67972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67972: Use *command (&)* instead of shell-command-buffer-name(-async)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:39:55 -0500

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That is a good idea. They could take a string or a symbol with a default
string value.
The variables shell-command-buffer-name(-async) could be declared as
defcustom instead of defconst.

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 2:18 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Nafiz Islam <nafiz.islam1001 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:31:24 -0500
> >
> > The buffer name for the shell-command or async-shell-command would be
> much more useful if they
> > were given the name of the command being executed.
> >
> > I started working a bit on a patch for that, but it's just code changes
> right now. Here's a preview of
> > what I mean.
>
> Instead of removing the default name, why not add one more possible
> value to async-shell-command-buffer, which will do what you want?
> Then users who are interested in this behavior could customize
> async-shell-command-buffer to that new value.
>
> Thanks.
>

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