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Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer.
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer. |
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Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:57:12 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > But I'm guessing that the current behavior was unexpected for some
>> > reason, and that's why you looked in the documentation. If the guess
>> > is correct, could you describe why it was unexpected/unwanted?
>>
>> It's unexpected that Emacs writes something. This is an instance of
>> the general case that by default you expect nothing to happen instead
>> of something, unless you request the "something". For example, after
>> $ echo foo > bar
>> would you expect that the file "bar" contains content other than
>> "foo\n" because the shell decides to write additional text before
>> closing redirections? This is the same thing.
>
> But Emacs does that for ages, so in Emacs this is veteran behavior of
> the default sentinel function.
FWIW, I don't much like this behavior and since the stderr case is new
I think we don't have to inherit this part of the behavior.
Stefan
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer., Philipp Stephani, 2019/04/19
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer., Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/20
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer., Philipp Stephani, 2019/04/21
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer.,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer., Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/22
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer., Stefan Monnier, 2019/04/22
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer., Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/22
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer., Philipp Stephani, 2019/04/22
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer., Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/22