From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add facility to collect stderr of async subprocess Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 09:54:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83zimjl1zp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pp87y6iu.fsf@gnu.org> <83mw3bxz9f.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2yfx8zi.fsf@gnu.org> <83egomxog1.fsf@gnu.org> <83ego5tjgt.fsf@gnu.org> <877ftno4fr.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <55247A98.5020302@cs.ucla.edu> <83r3rvgn4e.fsf@gnu.org> <877ftja89d.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <87wphnwh2q.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475650519 29184 195.159.176.226 (5 Oct 2016 06:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tino Calancha Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 08:55:15 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1brg6i-0006dR-Dx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:55:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brg6g-00032H-Uy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brg6A-00032A-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brg67-0006Ve-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:54:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brg67-0006VP-7x; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4572 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1brg65-0003Py-4m; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:54:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wphnwh2q.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Tino Calancha on Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:33:17 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207990 Archived-At: > From: Tino Calancha > Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:33:17 +0900 > Cc: tino.calancha@gmail.com > > How about to allow direct standard-error output to a different buffer > in start-process as well? This proposal has a disadvantage of being confusingly similar to what call-process provides, except that there the cdr is a file name, not a buffer. What advantages do you see to adding this convenience feature, when make-process already provides it? Thanks.