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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: standard output/error/input streams
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:21:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21svzzf9f.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpdxu8yt.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:22:50 +0000")

>>>>> "PL" == Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

PL> The main motivation for this is the same as last time; it gives a
PL> communication channel with Emacs which does not involve buffers at any
PL> point. Although, if you search for "Emacs" and "standard output", other
PL> people would like the same thing for other reasons.

Have you thought of allowing files to be "opened" for direct writing as well?
That is, I'd rather see file handles become a new output stream type, with
stdout and stderr instances of these, than hard-coded streams for only stdout
and stderr. Although, getting cleanup right makes me less certain.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-19  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-14 12:22 standard output/error/input streams Phillip Lord
2017-01-14 14:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-01-14 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-14 17:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-19  7:21 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2017-01-20 13:38   ` Phillip Lord
2017-01-20 16:26   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-20 21:24     ` John Wiegley
2017-01-20 21:52       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-20 21:59         ` John Wiegley
2017-01-23 12:41         ` Phillip Lord
2017-01-23 13:11           ` Stefan Monnier

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