Re: Program working with shell-command but not call-process

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> writes:

> >     (with-output-to-string
> >       (call-process "git" nil standard-output nil "--version"))
> >       ;=> it returns ""
> >       ;=> `call-process' alone returns 53
>
> `with-output-to-string' takes whatever is sent to `standard-output',
> converts it to a string and returns it. `call-process' sends its output
> to a buffer, or optionally to a file, but not to stdout. So you won't
> get any output from this construct unless `standard-output' is set to a
> buffer.

I don't think this is true.  `with-output-to-string` binds
`standard-output` to a temporary buffer and returns its content, so the
above should work (and actually does work here).

Michael.