From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: gnuplot vs. emacs' compile command Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:17:32 +0200 Organization: III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3ECE499C.481FF0C0@physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053710778 24793 80.91.224.249 (23 May 2003 17:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 19:26:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19JGFW-00061s-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 19:22:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JGFA-0002r3-DI for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 13:22:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JGCx-0002Dc-G3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 13:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JGA2-00010k-3g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 13:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JG9Y-0000u5-8Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 13:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19JFu1-0003oQ-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 19:00:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19JFCj-0007Vy-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:15:37 +0200 Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5145 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5145 Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > freopen to /dev/null might be preferrable, so that stderr remains valid. > Yep, that seems like a better plan --- gnuplot_x11 can be built to > optionally output execution trace information to stderr, which had better > not break completely. That change has been checked into gnuplot, so for the case of shell-command, the gnuplot end of the problem should be fixed. It remains somewhat worrying, though, that Emacs would be so irresponsive while waiting for the subprocess to end --- not that many newbies would have known to try Ctrl-G to break it out of its busy-looping state. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.