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[PATCH] tap: new `--merge-prefix' option to prefix stderr before merging

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Message #20 received at 72536 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 <at> gmail.com>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 72536 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rhansen <at> rhansen.org
Subject: Re: [bug#72536] [PATCH] tap: new `--merge-prefix' option to prefix
 stderr before merging
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 17:45:53 -0500

Karl Berry wrote:
>     How about `--stderr-prefix`?  
>     ...
>     I could make this option independent of `--merge` and always prefix each 
>     line of the test script's stderr.
>
> Sounds sensible to me. Clear behavior is good. I like that better than
> implicitly turning on --merge.
>   

I like this idea, too.

> [...]
>
> Instead, as a nod to practicality aka kludge, I wonder about replacing
> the string "sharp" (or "octothorpe", or some such) in the argument with a #.
>   

How about recognizing the Autoconf @%:@ quadrigraph for #?  If need be, 
it could be escaped as @%@&t@:@ to get past the regular quadrigraph 
processing.


-- Jacob

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