Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously

[Daniel Clemente]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>
>> Let's leave this for after the release.
>
> There is no hurry with this, so we could install only a new command
> without a keybinding, or postpone everything for after the release.
>

  I see that the new behaviour for & in dired was added. Could the 
documentation for ! (dired-do-shell-command) mention the way of executing a 
command in background? I think this is important because it is not obvious.

  I attach the proposed change; please improve the wording as needed..
  Thanks

--- dired-aux.el        14 ago 2008 20:56:23 +0200      1.179
+++ dired-aux.el        18 ago 2008 02:13:41 +0200      
@@ -551,6 +551,10 @@
 there's no telling what files COMMAND may have changed.
 Type \\[dired-do-redisplay] to redisplay the marked files.
 
+Emacs will block until the command ends. To execute the command
+in background, add `&' to the end of COMMAND, or use
+\\[dired-do-async-shell-command] instead.
+
 When COMMAND runs, its working directory is the top-level directory of
 the Dired buffer, so output files usually are created there instead of
 in a subdir.