Re: `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir]

["Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>]

"Garreau, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu> writes:

> In the `call-process' docstring related to the argument about output,
> there’s nothing related to a string:
>
>> Insert output in DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer; nil for DESTINATION
>>  means discard it; 0 means discard and don’t wait; and ‘(:file FILE)’, where
>>  FILE is a file name string, means that it should be written to that file
>>  (if the file already exists it is overwritten).
>> DESTINATION can also have the form (REAL-BUFFER STDERR-FILE); in that case,
>> REAL-BUFFER says what to do with standard output, as above,
>> while STDERR-FILE says what to do with standard error in the child.
>> STDERR-FILE may be nil (discard standard error output),
>> t (mix it with ordinary output), or a file name string.
>
> I also notice it is not documented that DESTINATION may be a buffer, in
> which case the output is inserted in the said buffer (I checked).

Indeed this does not seem to be documented in the docstring of
call-process, but it is documented in the manual under
'(elisp) Synchronous Processes'.

-- 
Basil