[debbugs-tracker] bug#11815: closed (24.1; Confusing behavior of & in Dired)

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regarding 24.1; Confusing behavior of & in Dired
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> 24.1; Confusing behavior of & in Dired
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> Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:29:25 -0500
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> Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (darwin)
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> If I mark several files in dired and press !, I can execute:
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>     rsync -av * jw:/srv/ftp/pub
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> I can also run:
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>     rsync -av * jw:/srv/ftp/pub &
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> But if I type &, I cannot run:
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>     rsync -av * jw:/srv/ftp/pub
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> Because this is equivalent to:
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>     rsync -av * jw:/srv/ftp/pub * &
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> It actually decribes this behavior in the docstring: with the & command, if no
> & appears at the end of the line (which makes little sense, since I pressed &
> to indicate it was asynchronous), Dired adds "* &".  ??
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> I think that the following equivalence should hold:
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>     ! COMMAND & == & COMMAND
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> The fix is simply to change the two lines in `dired-do-async-shell-command'
> which append " *" to the end of the line to read:
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>   (unless (string-match "[ \t][*?][ \t]" command)
>     (setq command (concat command " *")))
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> Thanks,
>   John
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> In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0 AppKit 
> 1138.47)
>  of 2012-06-28 on vulcan.local
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> Re: bug#10598: 24.0.92;	run dired-do-async-shell-command on multiple files individually
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> Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:41:08 +0300
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
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> > Thanks a lot, this looks great to me (and also works for me as expected).
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> Thanks, installed and closed.
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> > It would be good if the info node "(emacs)Shell Commands in Dired"
> > will be updated, too.
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> A NEWS entry for this change has no "---" indication that means
> it should be documented in the manual before the next release when
> the functionality is stabilized and there are no more code changes.
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