Re: Adding streams for standard out and standard err

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:

> +Two functions which are specifically designed for use as output
> +streams:
> +
> +@table @asis
> +@cindex @code{stdout} output stream
> +@item @var{stdout}
> +Prints to the system standard output (as opposed to the
> +@var{standard-output}), regardless of whether Emacs is running
> +interactively or not.
> +
> +@item @var{stderr} output stream
> +Prints to the system standard error, regardless of whether Emacs is
> +running interactively or not.
> +@end table

That's not a good name for these functions.  Since they do the printing
their name should include `print'.

Andreas.

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