Re: Suppressing load messages

[Brendan Halpin]

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

> Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> writes:
>
>> jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
>>
>>> If you want behavior like Perl or Python (output to STDOUT), then you
>>> should figure out a way to divert STDERR from inside Emacs.  I tried 
>>
>> That's not necessary, since the print family of commands will write to
>> STDOUT, and it is useful to be able to use message to write to STDERR. 
>
> Huh?  Then what do you want?  Do you want to see only STDOUT on the
> screen?  Do you want to capture it in a file?

I think we're talking at cross purposes. What I'm moaning about is that
there is that even with "--script" there is a lot of unnecessary loading
going on, with the most visible effect of lots of chatter on STDERR.
Simply, that makes Emacs less useful for writing little self-executable
shell utilities. 

What would be nice would be to be able to write hash-bang utilities in
Emacs that behave like any other, with output going to STDOUT and
errors/warnings going to STDERR. We're not quite there yet but it
shouldn't be impossible. Maybe I should talk to the emacs-devel list.

Brendan
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