From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `call-process', to a string
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:21:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3afivju.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83efc7lx4w.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:19:27 +0200")
Le 30/10/2018 à 09h19, Eli Zaretskii a écrit :
>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:25:36 +0000
>> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>> >> Insert output in DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer; nil for DESTINATION
>> >> means discard it; 0 means discard and don’t wait; and ‘(:file FILE)’, where
>> >> FILE is a file name string, means that it should be written to that file
>> >> (if the file already exists it is overwritten).
>> >> DESTINATION can also have the form (REAL-BUFFER STDERR-FILE); in that case,
>> >> REAL-BUFFER says what to do with standard output, as above,
>> >> while STDERR-FILE says what to do with standard error in the child.
>> >> STDERR-FILE may be nil (discard standard error output),
>> >> t (mix it with ordinary output), or a file name string.
>> >
>> > I also notice it is not documented that DESTINATION may be a buffer, in
>> > which case the output is inserted in the said buffer (I checked).
>>
>> Indeed this does not seem to be documented in the docstring of
>> call-process
>
> ??? You have just quoted the part where it does document that:
>
> Insert output in DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer;
>
> Will the following minor change make that abundantly clear?
>
> Insert output in buffer DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer;
Yes it does.
> (What else can "insert in ... before point" mean, in Emacs?)
In this docstring, it may be interpreted as a filename referred by a
string, or something referred by another value (the two-streams list).
I find it more clear if precising anyway, at this function may not
output to buffer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-29 19:54 Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-29 20:08 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-29 20:37 ` `with-temp-buffer', `with-output-to-string': `with-temp-buffer-to-string' / `with-current-buffer-to-string' [Was: Re: `call-process', to a string] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30 2:26 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 2:25 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 3:59 ` `call-process', to a string Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30 7:19 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 10:21 ` Garreau, Alexandre [this message]
2018-10-30 11:10 ` `call-process', to a string Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 11:32 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 13:46 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-31 12:44 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 2:25 ` Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 3:57 ` xdg.el and eww custom load [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-31 12:41 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-31 22:52 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-11-01 14:29 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-11-01 14:56 ` xdg.el and eww custom load Garreau, Alexandre
2018-11-01 18:54 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 7:16 ` Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Eli Zaretskii
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