From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 02:23:03 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084270656 11031 80.91.224.253 (11 May 2004 10:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 11 12:17:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNUKH-0000dK-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 12:17:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNUKH-0000gI-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 12:17:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNUJo-0001Rd-BO for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 06:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNUJM-00018r-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 06:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNUHr-0007Ov-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 06:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.26] (helo=out2.smtp.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNUHm-0007GU-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 06:14:55 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: facicz6k2UgNyqhrevwXlw 1084268373 Original-Received: from Majnun.newartisans.com (65-101-11-205.phnx.qwest.net [65.101.11.205]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B07B47397 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 05:39:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by Majnun.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 8D1052749FC; Tue, 11 May 2004 02:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "10 May 2004 10:27:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23127 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23127 David Kastrup writes: > I had posted a proposal to change start-process instead some time > ago that would have allowed for efficient I/O redirection under > eshell. Have you seen that proposal? That would be, IMO, a much > more Emacsy solution. The above looks like being quite ugly low > level. I would be interested in seeing it, though it would not help the output redirection case (since Eshell's "cat" is in Lisp). And actually, I don't get bitten by the speed of piping in Eshell -- though maybe I just didn't notice how slow it was. As for the comments from others: thank you, I will be reading through them in more detail soon. John