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Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp |
Date: |
Fri, 14 May 2004 05:21:27 -0400 |
Both. Like any shell, eshell provides builtins and it is able to
invoke subprocesses. For example, you can type "find-file foo" as a
command to eshell, and eshell will then invoke the builtin find-file.
When eshell sees a redirect from a builtin, I think it would be most
efficient to produce the output in a buffer and write it with
write-region into the file.
When it is a matter of a subprocess, what could be useful is a feature
for start-process to specify files for additional descriptors.
That would be a completely different feature.
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, (continued)
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/10
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, John Wiegley, 2004/05/11
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/12
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/05/13
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/05/14
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/15
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/05/15
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/16
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, John Wiegley, 2004/05/14
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/15
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, John Wiegley, 2004/05/15
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, David Kastrup, 2004/05/15
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/16
- Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp, David Kastrup, 2004/05/16