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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>,
	Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:21:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hamx4zv2.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nizksdb.fsf@awakening.csail.mit.edu>

Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:

>
> Async errors are harder, since it's 2013 and Emacs still provides no
> means to separate stdout from stderr for async processes.  The official
> way to do this is to fire up a shell running the command and have the
> shell redirect stderr.  This may be worthwhile for search since it would
> give us better error messages and eliminate the crazy resynchronization
> we have to do to deal with errors embedded in the output, but that's for
> another patch.

Nothing to do with this patch per se. but it might be sensible to add
top level convenience arguments to the notmuch command to redirect
stdout and stderr.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-03 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-22 20:49 [PATCH] emacs: tweak error buffer handling Mark Walters
2012-12-25 21:05 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-12-26 22:27   ` Mark Walters
2012-12-27 23:04     ` Austin Clements
2012-12-28  9:03       ` Mark Walters
2012-12-28 12:44         ` David Bremner
2012-12-28 19:48           ` [PATCH] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting Austin Clements
2012-12-29 18:00             ` Mark Walters
2013-01-03  0:44               ` Austin Clements
2013-01-03 23:21                 ` David Bremner [this message]
2013-01-03  0:50             ` [PATCH v2] " Austin Clements
2013-01-03 21:47               ` [PATCH v3] " Austin Clements
2013-01-03 22:48                 ` Mark Walters
2013-01-06 21:12                   ` Austin Clements
2013-01-05 21:33                 ` Tomi Ollila
2013-01-07  2:54                 ` David Bremner

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