Re: [PATCH] Add facility to collect stderr of async subprocess

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> How about to allow direct standard-error output to a different buffer
>> in start-process as well?
>
> This proposal has a disadvantage of being confusingly similar to what
> call-process provides, except that there the cdr is a file name, not a
> buffer.
>
> What advantages do you see to adding this convenience feature, when
> make-process already provides it?

Usually, start-file-process follows the argument list of
start-process. And the handlers for start-file-process do not use
make-process.

Personally, I'm undecided whether we shall add this feature.

> Thanks.

Best regards, Michael.