[PATCH v3 3/4] new: Print final fatal error message to stderr

Subject: [PATCH v3 3/4] new: Print final fatal error message to stderr

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:50:51 -0400

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Austin Clements


This was going to stdout.  I removed the newline at the beginning of
printing the fatal error message because it wouldn't make sense if you
were only looking at the stderr stream (e.g., you had redirected
stdout to /dev/null).
---
 notmuch-new.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c
index 2faf2f8..bf9b120 100644
--- a/notmuch-new.c
+++ b/notmuch-new.c
@@ -1035,8 +1035,8 @@ notmuch_new_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
     printf ("\n");
 
     if (ret)
-	printf ("\nNote: A fatal error was encountered: %s\n",
-		notmuch_status_to_string (ret));
+	fprintf (stderr, "Note: A fatal error was encountered: %s\n",
+		 notmuch_status_to_string (ret));
 
     notmuch_database_close (notmuch);
 
-- 
1.7.9.1


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