From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7842: 23.2; call-process should be able to send stderr to buffer object Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:56:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8739owi45n.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294979078 11906 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2011 04:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7842@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jameson Rollins Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 14 05:24:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PdbDE-0005qU-Tj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:24:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PdbDE-0000PI-7B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58205 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PdbD5-0000Nd-M0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:24:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PdbD4-00078C-MC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PdbD4-000788-Je for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pdaes-0003j0-1R; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:49:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:49:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7842 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7842-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7842.129497692514294 (code B ref 7842); Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:49:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7842) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jan 2011 03:48:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pdaea-0003iV-LH for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PdaeY-0003iI-EF for 7842@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:48:42 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43061) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pdalp-0001IS-8u; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:56:13 -0500 X-Spook: CBNRC target monarchist 2600 Magazine UMTS explosion X-Ran: =AW&~>(jLpkNJ{P?6M[f-Bik6>Wg1gJNhMO!9qO9 (Jameson Rollins's message of "Thu\, 13 Jan 2011 21\:56\:52 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:49:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43353 Archived-At: Jameson Rollins wrote: > Currently the call-process function lets one send stderr to a file by > providing a list as the BUFFER argument which includes the name of a > STDERR-FILE: > > (call-process "ls" nil (list t "/path/to/stderr/file") nil "/does-not-exist") > > It would be nice if one could instead send stderr directly to a distinct > buffer, i.e.: Quoth the elisp manual: "Creating a Synchronous Process" You can't directly specify a buffer to put the error output in; that is too difficult to implement. But you can achieve this result by sending the error output to a temporary file and then inserting the file into a buffer.