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27.0.50; Cuonfusing documentation about pipe processes

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 30349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#30349: 27.0.50; Cuonfusing documentation about pipe processes
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:44:53 -0500

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Basil L. Contovounesios
<contovob <at> tcd.ie> wrote:

>>>> > ":buffer BUFFER -- BUFFER is the buffer (or buffer-name) to associate
>>>> > with the process.  Process output goes at the end of that buffer,
>>>> > unless you specify an output stream or filter function to handle the
>>>> > output."
>>>> >
>>>> > => How do you specify an output stream?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think there is such a thing.  That phrase seems to have been
>>>> copied across all the make-*-process functions.
>>>
>>> And is wrong in all of them?
>>
>> I think so.
>>
>>> Could it be that the phrase originally meant shell-style redirection?
>>
>> Perhaps, but none of those functions support that, as far as I know.
>
> No relation to '(elisp) Output Streams'?

I don't see anything in the process code that would be able to take an
Elisp stream.

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