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authorTino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>2020-01-23 10:56:02 +0100
committerTino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>2020-01-23 10:56:02 +0100
commite1deafd39d9ef32cfa54c0be498f26857bf49c25 (patch)
treea9f34ebee3b36f4d58724f8c51164168e94b4ff9
parentd15f2d4cbcd203d04737d56ee77676e25db6745a (diff)
downloademacs-e1deafd39d9ef32cfa54c0be498f26857bf49c25.tar.gz
Backport: Fix bug 39218
* lisp/simple.el (shell-command): Ensure a shell command ending with `&' is run asynchronously.
-rw-r--r--lisp/simple.el3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 3546bef600d..73aea415c77 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -3640,10 +3640,11 @@ impose the use of a shell (with its need to quote arguments)."
(if handler
(funcall handler 'shell-command command output-buffer error-buffer)
(if (and output-buffer
+ (not (string-match "[ \t]*&[ \t]*\\'" command))
(or (eq output-buffer (current-buffer))
(and (stringp output-buffer) (eq (get-buffer output-buffer) (current-buffer)))
(not (or (bufferp output-buffer) (stringp output-buffer))))) ; Bug#39067
- ;; Output goes in current buffer.
+ ;; Synchronous command with output in current buffer.
(let ((error-file
(and error-buffer
(make-temp-file