From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: standard output/error/input streams
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:38:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tq5c0n4.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21svzzf9f.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:21:32 -0800")
John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> "PL" == Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>
> PL> The main motivation for this is the same as last time; it gives a
> PL> communication channel with Emacs which does not involve buffers at any
> PL> point. Although, if you search for "Emacs" and "standard output", other
> PL> people would like the same thing for other reasons.
>
> Have you thought of allowing files to be "opened" for direct writing as well?
> That is, I'd rather see file handles become a new output stream type, with
> stdout and stderr instances of these, than hard-coded streams for only stdout
> and stderr. Although, getting cleanup right makes me less certain.
Yes, that would be nice I agree, although standard out gives me my main
use case, and there is already support for clean up.
I'll take a look next maybe.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-20 13:38 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 [this message]
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
2017-01-23 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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