OK #Emacs people, time to #AskFedi about an #elisp API thing:
I'm running async external processes, and I want to trigger callbacks when they finish (successful or otherwise). I'm currently using process sentinels, but ... this interface is terrible! The process result is a string that _isn't even well-defined?_ Surely there has to be a better way!
What is that better way? (I see that eshell uses those same strings, so I'm not hopeful...)
Ethan Blanton
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