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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:59:23 -0800
From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
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Subject: Re: capturing stderr to variable.
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On 11/14/2015 09:20 AM, Ray Andrews wrote:
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>>     { highlight ... >/dev/tty } 2>&1 | read highlight_err
>>     # now $highlight_err has the first line of stderr
>>     # (this does not work in most shells other than zsh)
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And it's even simpler in case the output is to be captured and not 
echoed to stdout at all:

     body_list=( ${(@f)"$( highlight $filename )"} ) 2>&1 | read _err

If I do:

     body_list=( ${(@f)"$( highlight $filename > /dev/tty )"} ) 2>&1 | 
read _err

... I get the output to screen, so that answers my previous question.  
The syntactic logic might be harder than Finnish, but it *is* there.