From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp
Date: 11 May 2004 12:22:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5k6zjw9eu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2u0ynqpvs.fsf@Majnun.local>
John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> 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).
Ok, that _is_ a consideration I was not thinking of. Of course, you
can't solve that with start-process alone.
> 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.
What's much more relevant is that it will merge stdout and stderr:
that makes it almost useless.
> As for the comments from others: thank you, I will be reading
> through them in more detail soon.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-10 5:59 request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp John Wiegley
2004-05-10 6:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-05-10 8:27 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 17:00 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-11 9:23 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-11 10:22 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-05-10 9:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-10 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-10 11:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-10 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-10 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 17:46 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-05-10 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 22:40 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-05-11 12:22 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-10 17:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 9:20 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-12 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-13 7:59 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-14 9:21 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-14 10:42 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-15 8:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-15 16:27 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-16 13:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-14 21:43 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-15 18:33 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-15 21:36 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-15 22:13 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-16 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-16 17:46 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-17 11:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-13 22:50 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-14 21:02 ` Richard Stallman
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