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bug#48129: 28.0.50; Per file-handle (stdin, stdout and stderr) process-c
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#48129: 28.0.50; Per file-handle (stdin, stdout and stderr) process-connection-type variable |
Date: |
Sat, 01 May 2021 09:09:39 +0300 |
> From: Thomas Hisch <thomas.hisch@ims.co.at>
> Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 01:10:10 +0200
>
>
> I would like that the configuration options of the three file
> handles (stdin, stdout and stderr), when a new process is created
> in emacs, are improved. What I'm specifically asking for is to
> add support for individually specifying for each file-handle
> whether it should be connected to a pty or not. Currently the
> value of the process-connection-type variable applies to all
> three file handles at once, which leads to a problem with the
> following use-case:
>
> Usually a program outputs ANSI escape sequences when its stdout
> file-handle is connected to a pty. It is currently not possible to
> communicate with a subprocess that is created by `start-file-process' by
> writing to a pty (via stdin) and avoiding that this subprocess writes
> ANSI escape sequences to stdout. This use-case is needed by magit, which
> currently doesn't have support for displaying ANSI escape sequences but
> it needs to communicate with it's started subprocesses via a PTY
> (https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3549).
We have make-pipe-process; can't you solve your problem by connecting
your process's stdout to such a pipe-process? If not, why not?
- bug#48129: 28.0.50; Per file-handle (stdin, stdout and stderr) process-connection-type variable,
Eli Zaretskii <=