bug#7842: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug 7842)

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Fri, Feb 08 2013, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Yes, but that requires writing to a temporary file.  Avoiding that was
>> the entire point of my feature request.
>
> Why do you want to avoid it?  What is the problem with using this
> method?

For the exact same reasons you don't just send stdout to a temporary
file.  It is exactly the same issue.  Pretty much the whole point of
call-process is that it captures stdout to a buffer.  But somehow the
logic that applies to stdout does not apply to stderr?  That makes no
sense.  If we feel it's important that users be able to capture stdout
into a buffer, then we should be able to capture stderr into a buffer
for exactly the same reasons.

>> Is there some technical reason that it's impossible to just capture
>> the stderr to a separate buffer?
>
> It's possible, but it will complicate the API which is already quite
> complicated and hard to maintain for every platform Emacs supports.

This also seems like a really bad justification for closing this as
"won't fix".  It may be difficult, but it's still a legitimate feature
request.

jamie.

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