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Re: `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] |
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Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:19:27 +0200 |
> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:25:36 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>
> >> Insert output in DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer; nil for
> >> DESTINATION
> >> means discard it; 0 means discard and don’t wait; and ‘(:file FILE)’,
> >> where
> >> FILE is a file name string, means that it should be written to that file
> >> (if the file already exists it is overwritten).
> >> DESTINATION can also have the form (REAL-BUFFER STDERR-FILE); in that case,
> >> REAL-BUFFER says what to do with standard output, as above,
> >> while STDERR-FILE says what to do with standard error in the child.
> >> STDERR-FILE may be nil (discard standard error output),
> >> t (mix it with ordinary output), or a file name string.
> >
> > I also notice it is not documented that DESTINATION may be a buffer, in
> > which case the output is inserted in the said buffer (I checked).
>
> Indeed this does not seem to be documented in the docstring of
> call-process
??? You have just quoted the part where it does document that:
Insert output in DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer;
Will the following minor change make that abundantly clear?
Insert output in buffer DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer;
(What else can "insert in ... before point" mean, in Emacs?)
- Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/29
- `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir], Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/29
- `with-temp-buffer', `with-output-to-string': `with-temp-buffer-to-string' / `with-current-buffer-to-string' [Was: Re: `call-process', to a string], Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/29
- Re: `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir], Basil L. Contovounesios, 2018/10/29
- Re: `call-process', to a string, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/29
- Re: `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir],
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: `call-process', to a string, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/30
- Re: `call-process', to a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/30
- Re: `call-process', to a string, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/30
- Re: `call-process', to a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/30
- `call-process', to a string, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/30
- Re: `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir], Basil L. Contovounesios, 2018/10/31
Re: `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir], Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/30
Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2018/10/29