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bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior
From: |
Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Jul 2024 17:06:30 +0000 |
Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:
> Regarding my workflow, I'm generally using eshell-command for one of three
> things:
>
> (1) To launch some long running external application, like a torified gemini
> browser. Always done with "&".
> (2) To run some one-off command or pipeline of commands, like
> capturing the listing of a directory, manipulating some files, or
> grepping the output of a file and saving that to a buffer. Sometimes I
> use "&" depending on how quick I think it will be to finish.
> (3) Something like the above, but the eshell-command call is inserted as
> elisp in some interactive function, when it is more convenient than
> start/call-process for some reason.
>
> Regarding automatically reusing buffers... I lean a little towards not
> automatically reusing dead buffers, so that I know for sure that some
> eshell-command call in some other random command I've made doesn't
> overwrite command output while I am looking at it.
Thanks, this is what we wanted to know.
> My main concern here though is that I might end the work day with 39
> dead eshell-command buffers, and not have a convenient way to clear
> them all out. Off hand, I'm not sure of what command to run which
> would delete all dead eshell-command buffers but not the live ones.
Should not be hard to write a command doing this.
> Regarding use case 3, I just want to mention for sure it would nice,
> however you set this up, so that I can call eshell-command from lisp,
> and not have to worry about user (me) being prompted about what to do
> with buffers. Then I could include eshell-command in timer code or
> such like and not have to worry about a prompt appearing unexpectedly
> in my work flow.
This is now already available in master branch with:
(setq eshell-command-async-buffer 'new-buffer)
Thanks.
--
Thierry
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- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, (continued)
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Thierry Volpiatto, 2024/07/05
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Jim Porter, 2024/07/05
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Thierry Volpiatto, 2024/07/05
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Jim Porter, 2024/07/05
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Jim Porter, 2024/07/05
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Thierry Volpiatto, 2024/07/05
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Thierry Volpiatto, 2024/07/06
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Jim Porter, 2024/07/06
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Thierry Volpiatto, 2024/07/06
bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior, Christopher Howard, 2024/07/06
- bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior,
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