Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp

[David Kastrup]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I had posted a proposal to change start-process instead some time
> > ago that would have allowed for efficient I/O redirection under
> > eshell.  Have you seen that proposal?  That would be, IMO, a much
> > more Emacsy solution.  The above looks like being quite ugly low
> > level.
> 
> I would be interested in seeing it, though it would not help the
> output redirection case (since Eshell's "cat" is in Lisp).

Ok, that _is_ a consideration I was not thinking of.  Of course, you
can't solve that with start-process alone.

> And actually, I don't get bitten by the speed of piping in Eshell --
> though maybe I just didn't notice how slow it was.

What's much more relevant is that it will merge stdout and stderr:
that makes it almost useless.

> As for the comments from others: thank you, I will be reading
> through them in more detail soon.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum