Re: Why is STDERR the default output?

Glenn Morse <[email protected]> writes:

> Huh, somehow I've never managed to use those in a way that their
> output stream mattered, that's interesting!

I can certainly believe that.  It's really how they fit in the larger
ecosystem of commands that can be used in pipes.  For example awk, grep.

> I don't really *mind* that unison isn't using the "normal" 0/1/2
> ordered streams, but as you say, a note somewhere in the documentation
> would be nice! I did bang my head against the desk for a bit while I
> tried to figure out if I'd suddenly had a stroke that only made me
> forget how to redirect output. I get that a lot.

I think it is using the normal way, but an alternative view is that
unison's interactive output is like a text editor.  If someone wants to
dig in and bring up a possible change on unison-hackers, it would be
interesting to see what everyone thinks.  Still, there is going to to be
effort imposed on many by a change.  And, without someone willing to do
the work to make the changes, nothing is going to happen anyway.

I agree this is a doc bug:
  https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/issues/1137__;!!IBzWLUs!VEH0cn0dQcU5EMT2XruVKMILD_INUqiCPZOavH2NQDAhKGLDdx2yW5iT-worC4OVm8LIoZxuop5i7kDKsw$ 

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