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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: isabella parakiss <izaberina@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] print errors to stderr
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:42:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23718.1466581326@thecus.kiddle.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <576a3601.43921c0a.46393.50ee@mx.google.com>

isabella parakiss wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] print errors to stderr
> @@ -3633,8 +3633,8 @@ bin_whence(char *nam, char **argv, Options ops, int func)
> -		zputs(*argv, stdout);
> -		puts(wd ? ": none" : " not found");
> +		zputs(*argv, stderr);
> +		zputs(wd ? ": none" : " not found", stderr);

I think this behaviour is actually intentional. It is arguably not an
error - the whence command's purpose is to search for something and
report on whether it is found. So it doesn't rely on finding it. Also,
this is compatible with csh and tcsh - the which command was a csh thing
first.

Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-22  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-22  6:53 isabella parakiss
2016-06-22  7:42 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2016-06-22 17:14   ` Bart Schaefer
2016-06-23 10:04     ` Oliver Kiddle

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