From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Random832 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add file-dwim. Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:39:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87h9lnyf5y.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <87d1wcrzuu.fsf@T420.taylan> <87lhb0ot7m.fsf@T420.taylan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445208035 14940 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2015 22:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 19 00:40:26 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Znwcs-0008NZ-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znwcr-00065a-8a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znwcn-00065B-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znwck-0007Sl-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znwck-0007Rn-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Znwch-0008Eo-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:40:16 +0200 Original-Received: from c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([68.39.146.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from random832 by c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:40:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WcgAeMkV3aGu8JSV7Yj5nYLNuX4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192020 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: > Actually, people shouldn't use shell-command unless they specifically > need a shell. > If you want an external program, use start-process; if you want it > synchronous, use call-process. Can call-process return the stdout of the process in a string, as shell-command-to-string does?