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From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: standard output/error/input streams
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:41:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tq27xu3.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh94tqu4k.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:52:17 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> That does make me realize that I could use `start-process` with an executable
>> that does what I want, and use `process-send-string` to bypass the involvement
>> of any buffers. Thanks for mentioning it.
>
> Right.  What I was thinking of was to add a `make-file-process`
> primitive so you don't need an external executable.


If we had a function to go to generate a stream from a process then we
could have our cake and eat it.

Phil



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-23 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-14 12:22 standard output/error/input streams Phillip Lord
2017-01-14 14:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-01-14 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-14 17:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-19  7:21 ` John Wiegley
2017-01-20 13:38   ` Phillip Lord
2017-01-20 16:26   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-20 21:24     ` John Wiegley
2017-01-20 21:52       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-20 21:59         ` John Wiegley
2017-01-23 12:41         ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2017-01-23 13:11           ` Stefan Monnier

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