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Why can't one run more than one dired-do-async-shell-command at once?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:42:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 4719

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: 8023 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8023: Why can't one run more than one dired-do-async-shell-command at once?
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:29:48 +0800

Why can't one run more than one dired-do-async-shell-command at the same
time?

Why not allow more than one?

  shell-command: Shell command in progress

What if bash was also that way?

If it is a matter of what buffers it is writing to, then append their
names with <2> etc. or a process ID.

  & runs the command dired-do-async-shell-command, which is an
  interactive compiled Lisp function in `dired-aux.el'.

  It is bound to &, <menu-bar> <operate> <async-command>.

  (dired-do-async-shell-command COMMAND &optional ARG FILE-LIST)

  Run a shell command COMMAND on the marked files asynchronously.

  Like `dired-do-shell-command' but if COMMAND doesn't end in ampersand,
  adds `* &' surrounded by whitespace and executes the command asynchronously.
  The output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell Command*'.
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