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ui: add config knob to redirect status messages to stderr (API)

This option can be used to isolate structured output from status messages.
For now, "stdio" (stdout/err pair) and "stderr" are supported. In future
patches, I'll add the "channel" option which will send status messages to
a separate command-server channel with some metadata attached, maybe in
CBOR encoding.

This is a part of the generic templating plan:
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/GenericTemplatingPlan#Sanity_check_output

.. api::

   Status messages may be sent to a dedicated stream depending on
   configuration. Don't use ``ui.status()``, etc. as a shorthand for
   conditional writes. Use ``ui.write()`` for data output.

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
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