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Re: `call-process', to a string
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Garreau\, Alexandre |
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Re: `call-process', to a string |
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Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:21:57 +0100 |
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Le 30/10/2018 à 09h19, Eli Zaretskii a écrit :
>> 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;
Yes it does.
> (What else can "insert in ... before point" mean, in Emacs?)
In this docstring, it may be interpreted as a filename referred by a
string, or something referred by another value (the two-streams list).
I find it more clear if precising anyway, at this function may not
output to buffer.
- 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, 2018/10/30
- Re: `call-process', to a string,
Garreau\, Alexandre <=
- 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