Re: dired and ls

[Thierry Volpiatto]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

> See dired-async.el for some attempts.  For example, you can mark multiple
> large files for copy, and when you execute the copy it colors them all yellow
> (for "in progress"), and removes the coloring as each one is
> completed.

No, it behaves differently since long time now, you have a message in
mode-line notifying async(s) processes running with the number of jobs,
when a job finish the number of job is updated in mode-line when all
jobs finished you have a message in mode-line.

> It still need a decent interface for canceling operations in progress,
> though.

M-x dired-async-kill-process

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Thierry