Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously

[David Kastrup]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> Daniel Clemente <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>   What's the status of this feature? Several problems were tackled
>>>   and several suggestions were proposed, but no consensus was
>>>   reached.
>>>
>>>   Discussion brought following topics:
>>>
>>> - & in dired is not intuitive for dired-flag-garbage-files
>>
>> Some alternatives that are not taken are ",", "@", "'", "`".  The
>> garbage bag symbol "@" might be suitable.
>
> Garbage bag?!  It is a human in NetHack.

And & is a demon.  And ! is a potion.  And hjkl are homunculi, jaguars,
killer bees and leocrottae (or even worse, vi motion commands).

I don't think we should let our keybindings be influenced all too much
by Nethack.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum