PATCH 21.5 Invoking shell-command with a buffer name or object and an asynchronous command (i.e., one ending with "&") does NOT put the shell output into the requested buffer like it did in 21.4. This patch fixes the regression. lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2006-06-30 Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; * process.el (shell-command): If a specific output buffer was requested, use it. xemacs-21.5 source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -uN Files affected: lisp/process.el Index: lisp/process.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/process.el,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -d -u -r1.19 process.el --- lisp/process.el 2005/01/09 09:44:44 1.19 +++ lisp/process.el 2006/06/30 20:49:29 ＠＠ -359,8 +359,8 ＠＠ ;; Command ending with ampersand means asynchronous. (progn (if-fboundp 'background - (background (substring command 0 - (match-beginning 0))) + (background (substring command 0 (match-beginning 0)) + output-buffer) (error 'unimplemented "backgrounding a shell command requires package `background'"))) -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University