From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, 31497@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31497: 27.0.50; vc-hg doesn't separate standard error from standard output
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:27:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2xroi6o.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837e5dt5v1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:30:26 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> I can confirm that this bug is still present in Emacs 27. The command
>> is started from vc-doc-command, which uses start-file-process, which
>> uses start-process, which doesn't even allow separating stderr from
>> stdin.
>>
>> (In general, Emacs stderr/stdin handling is very frustrating.)
>
>>From the doc string of start-process:
>
> If you want to separate standard output from standard error, use
> ‘make-process’ or invoke the command through a shell and redirect
> one of them using the shell syntax.
Yes, I think start-file-process and start-process should also provide
the same stderr capabilities as make-process. Those two functions are
handy, but lead to sloppy handling of stderr.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-11 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-18 17:42 bug#31497: 27.0.50; vc-hg doesn't separate standard error from standard output Philipp Stephani
2019-10-09 21:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-10 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-11 7:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-10 11:11 ` Andrii Kolomoiets
2019-10-14 23:54 ` bug#31497: [Andrii Kolomoiets] " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-15 0:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-16 7:32 ` Andrii Kolomoiets
2019-10-17 2:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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