From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer.
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:57:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwojnqdqw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83imv9b0b0.fsf@gnu.org
>> > But I'm guessing that the current behavior was unexpected for some
>> > reason, and that's why you looked in the documentation. If the guess
>> > is correct, could you describe why it was unexpected/unwanted?
>>
>> It's unexpected that Emacs writes something. This is an instance of
>> the general case that by default you expect nothing to happen instead
>> of something, unless you request the "something". For example, after
>> $ echo foo > bar
>> would you expect that the file "bar" contains content other than
>> "foo\n" because the shell decides to write additional text before
>> closing redirections? This is the same thing.
>
> But Emacs does that for ages, so in Emacs this is veteran behavior of
> the default sentinel function.
FWIW, I don't much like this behavior and since the stderr case is new
I think we don't have to inherit this part of the behavior.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-21 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-04 12:02 [PATCH 1/3] Document that 'make-process' mixes the output streams Philipp Stephani
2018-04-04 12:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer Philipp Stephani
2018-04-04 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-07 20:21 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-04-08 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-10 4:14 ` Stephen Leake
2018-04-10 4:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-19 19:28 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-04-20 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-21 13:55 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-04-21 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-21 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-04-22 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-22 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 15:45 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-04-22 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-04 12:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] Inherit process output coding system to stderr process Philipp Stephani
2018-04-04 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-07 21:12 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-04-08 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-08 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-04 13:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] Document that 'make-process' mixes the output streams Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-07 20:18 ` Philipp Stephani
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