From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Incomplete output from "cvs annotate" Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:42:28 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <400C4F44.3090601@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074549049 15784 80.91.224.253 (19 Jan 2004 21:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 22:50:33 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 1AihI1-0008Jj-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:50:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AihI0-00014N-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:50:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AihEK-0004bE-0R for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AihC6-00045l-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:44:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AihBl-0003v7-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AihBk-0007eP-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AihAE-0008IQ-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:42:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AihAC-0006lU-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:42:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AihAB-0006lL-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:42:27 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AihAB-0003lo-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:42:27 +0100 Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:19294 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19294 Kim F. Storm wrote: > Knowing the cause, there is a simple work-arond in emacs, as the > following call-process usage avoids having emacs tying stderr into > stdout; instead, it redirects stderr to /dev/null: > > (call-process "/usr/bin/cvs" nil '(t nil) nil "annotate" "vc.el") Discarding standard error is not a good idea. Too bad STDERR-FILE can't simply be a buffer (or a buffer name): (call-process "/usr/bin/cvs" nil '(t "*Messages*") nil "annotate" "vc.el") -- Kevin Rodgers