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Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously |
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Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:57:09 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> There is no term "background" in the existing Emacs documentation,
>> so it is better to use the term "asynchronously" like in the
>> docstring of `shell-command':
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> Still, may I suggest having an entry in the index referring "background"
> to "asynchronously"? It seems to be the more popular term these days.
Yes, we could do the same as we do with other synonyms that have
a different term outside of Emacs (e.g. "cut/paste" vs "kill/yank")
and to add an entry in the index and maybe an entry in the Glossary.
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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/