Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously

[Juri Linkov]

> In general, the current Emacs support for asynchronous apps seems quite
> clumsy.  I usually don't want the "*Async Shell Command*" output buffer,
> or at least, don't want to see it unless there's actually some
> output... (which there usually isn't).  The current restriction to a
> single background app is simply dumb.

It seems the best user interface to interactively modify the behavior of
the command before executing it would be a set of keys to toggle a state
variable in the minibuffer in the same way as was recently proposed for
refraining from recording the item in the minibuffer history (instead of
ignoring entries starting with space).

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/