Re: async-shell-command and prefix argument

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2019-01-15, at 18:32, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:49:47 +0100
>>
>> Basically, the post explains most of my problem:
>> http://mbork.pl/2016-04-12_Showing_some_of_those_Async_Shell_Command_buffers
>> and an (extremely hackish) solution.  Since the prefix argument to
>> `async-shell-command' is pretty useless, I would like it to make the
>> output window disappear (or appear, whichever is the saner default,
>> possibly decided by some variable).
>>
>> Does such an idea make sense?  Should I file a feature request?
>
> Is something wrong with customizing async-shell-command-display-buffer?
> I have it set to nil for quite some time.

Would it help for this use-case?  That is, make the output buffers
disappear (even in the presence of some output), but not if a prefix
argument is used?

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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