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Re: `message' not outputting the newline "atomically"


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: `message' not outputting the newline "atomically"
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 21:28:46 +0300

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 10:32:48 -0700
> 
> > the primary purpose of stderr is to produce diagnostic
> > error messages
> 
> And if these diagnostics are confusing or unintelligible, as with unbuffered 
> stderr, this purpose is not being fulfilled.

I see no such confusing messages in all the examples brought so far.

> > That use case could have a more specialized solution
> 
> Sure: we could take every bit of Emacs code that produces piecemeal stderr 
> output, and rewrite it

I pointed out some much less painful solutions.  So this is a straw
man, really.

Would you please just revert that change?  Please?  Because I ask, if
for no other reason?



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