[PATCH] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Thu Jan 3 15:21:21 PST 2013


Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> writes:

>
> Async errors are harder, since it's 2013 and Emacs still provides no
> means to separate stdout from stderr for async processes.  The official
> way to do this is to fire up a shell running the command and have the
> shell redirect stderr.  This may be worthwhile for search since it would
> give us better error messages and eliminate the crazy resynchronization
> we have to do to deal with errors embedded in the output, but that's for
> another patch.

Nothing to do with this patch per se. but it might be sensible to add
top level convenience arguments to the notmuch command to redirect
stdout and stderr.

d


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