Close on success

[markbirbeck]

From @PeterPablo:

When considering this wish [#39], please also consider to add an option to automatically close the output (buffer or panel) on success.

[markbirbeck]

Is the use for this that you simply don't want to see any output at all?

I'm wondering whether instead of having a title attribute to name output buffer, I should instead have a buffer attribute, which can either be a string that names the buffer, or null to indicate that we don't want a buffer.

Without a buffer we would effectively just discard all output. Would that achieve what you want?

(Of course, if the command fails we need to know...but we can work that out once I have better understood what you're trying to achieve.)

[PeterPablo]

My use case is the compilation of LaTex. I don't want to be bothered if compilation is successful, but am interested in the output if there is an error present.

[markbirbeck]

Seems straightforward.

My previous comment was along the lines of 'suppress all output unless there is an error', but I think I overcomplicated it since then we would then need to specify where we want the error to be written to (panel or buffer).

All that we really need is a flag that says 'if the task ran successfully suppress the output'.

A bit of thought might be needed as to how this relates to long-running jobs, though.