Support raw stdout/stderr from jobs

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua, neovim
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start at the jobs API entry point and trace how command stdout and stderr are currently transformed before being returned. Preserve raw binary output for callers while retaining existing behavior where appropriate, and verify that protobuf or other binary command output is returned unchanged.

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Description

First of all, thanks for the jobs API.

My feature request is for the use case of retrieving the raw output of a command. The problem is that I have a program that returns raw binary data (a protobuf), so gsub('\r', '') breaks it. My current workaround is to use sh as the cmd and pipe the output to a temporary file, but then I have to make sure the temp file gets cleaned up. Just being able to receive the raw output would be more convenient.

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