From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931CA431FAF for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:21:35 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DDtfHg4qQvWS for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83380431FAE for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034082078.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([156.34.82.78] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqu6J-0005vG-1l; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:21:27 -0400 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqu6D-0001d8-Da; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:21:21 -0400 From: David Bremner To: Austin Clements , Mark Walters , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting In-Reply-To: <874nizksdb.fsf@awakening.csail.mit.edu> References: <87wqw2pcqs.fsf@zancas.localnet> <1356724088-26032-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> <87r4m820yh.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> <874nizksdb.fsf@awakening.csail.mit.edu> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14+229~g5a1b22e (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:21:21 -0400 Message-ID: <87hamx4zv2.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam_bar: - X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:21:35 -0000 Austin Clements 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