Add new file helm-async.el which provide only the redefinition of dired-create-file and callback etc...

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Simple library for asynchronous processing in Emacs

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Add new file helm-async.el which provide only the redefinition of dired-create-file and callback etc... #1

Closed thierryvolpiatto closed 12 years ago

thierryvolpiatto commented 12 years ago

...ired.

Allow copying a list of files (marked files) completely asynchronously. Support for deleting files is removed for now as it is not working.

thierryvolpiatto commented 12 years ago

Hi John, in dired-async.el dired-create-file do this:

(dolist (f list-of-files)
   do-diverse-arrangments
   call handler asynchronously on 'f')

So when copying only one file or a big directory, things work fine. but when you have a list of file with more than one element, dired-create-file copy each element async but come back always on host emacs and so on.

What does helm-async.el is only redefining dired-create-file to launch the loop on the child emacs. It is working fine with helm and dired.

thierryvolpiatto commented 12 years ago

I think it's all now, so the current features of helm-async.el are:

Handle multiples marked files
Works both on dired and helm
It can be turned off with var helm-async-be-async set to nil.
It return file-error from Emacs child to main Emacs.
It is disabled when used with a prefix arg from helm (and follow is used).
It only redefine dired-create-file to achieve that.
Deletion is not handled for now.
Cosmetic stuff on dired buffer are not handled.

State of dired-async.el:

Works only on a single file or directory.
Not compatible with helm.