Subject: Re: bug#17390: 24.4.50; Doc bug: Batch Mode

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 09:47:21 -0500

tags 17390 fixed
close 17390 25.1
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Johan Bockgård <[email-masked]> writes:

> (info "(elisp) Batch Mode") says:
>
>     Any Lisp program output that would normally go to the echo
>     area, either using `message', or using `prin1', etc., with
>     `t' as the stream, goes instead to Emacs's standard error
>     descriptor when in batch mode.
>
> This is not correct. Text printed with "`prin1', etc., with `t' as the
> stream" goes to stdout, not stderr. (Unlike `message'.)

This was fixed in 25.1.

[1: 565adf2e90]: 2018-02-08 20:32:47 -0500
  Clarify that text-quoting-style doesn't affect *Info* (Bug#24519)
  [...]
  (Batch Mode): Document how text written to standard streams is
encoded.  Fix inaccuracy regarding which output streams are used
by output functions in batch mode.
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=565adf2e90d67de2107343aaf265ec6c3e8fd165