From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35187: 26.1; call-process should accept a buffer as stdin. or its doc should reference call-process-region Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:00:37 +0200 Message-ID: <877e8rtcyi.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <877ec5qyul.fsf@debian-x1g4.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="231244"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 35187@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ernesto Alfonso Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 09 18:14:15 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hkskx-000xq1-KW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:14:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51676 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkshY-0005tl-5C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksYH-0006QS-56 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hksYA-0006wn-Dw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53331) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hksYA-0006wV-9p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksYA-0005My-7F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:01:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35187 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 35187-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35187.156268804420592 (code B ref 35187); Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35187) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jul 2019 16:00:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33915 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksXs-0005M2-6O for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:48594) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksXp-0005Lp-Nc for 35187@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hksXm-0006sz-0J; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:00:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <877ec5qyul.fsf@debian-x1g4.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Ernesto Alfonso's message of "Sun, 07 Apr 2019 14:39:30 -0700") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162507 Archived-At: Ernesto Alfonso writes: > When looking at the call-process doc, I didn't see a way to pass a > buffer to stdin without creating a temporary file. It looks like > the DESTINATION argument already supports either a file-name or a > buffer, but passing a buffer to INFILE does not seem supported: > > (call-process "cat" (get-buffer "*Messages*") nil) > *** Eval error *** Wrong type argument: stringp, # > > Can this be supported? Could call-process-region be merged into > the INFILE argument to call-process? I think it's probably too late to merge these two functions... > As a short-term fix, it would be useful if the call-process referred to > call-process-region. ... but I've now mentioned the latter in the former's doc string on the Emacs trunk. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no