diff --git a/mercurial/ui.py b/mercurial/ui.py
--- a/mercurial/ui.py
+++ b/mercurial/ui.py
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ class ui(object):
         dest = self._fout
 
         # inlined _write() for speed
-        if self._isbuffered(dest):
+        if self._buffers:
             label = opts.get(r'label', '')
             if label and self._bufferapplylabels:
                 self._buffers[-1].extend(self.label(a, label) for a in args)
@@ -1017,13 +1017,7 @@ class ui(object):
         # opencode timeblockedsection because this is a critical path
         starttime = util.timer()
         try:
-            if dest is self._ferr and not getattr(self._fout, 'closed', False):
-                self._fout.flush()
-            if getattr(dest, 'structured', False):
-                # channel for machine-readable output with metadata, where
-                # no extra colorization is necessary.
-                dest.write(msg, **opts)
-            elif self._colormode == 'win32':
+            if self._colormode == 'win32':
                 # windows color printing is its own can of crab, defer to
                 # the color module and that is it.
                 color.win32print(self, dest.write, msg, **opts)
@@ -1032,15 +1026,7 @@ class ui(object):
                     label = opts.get(r'label', '')
                     msg = self.label(msg, label)
                 dest.write(msg)
-            # stderr may be buffered under win32 when redirected to files,
-            # including stdout.
-            if dest is self._ferr and not getattr(self._ferr, 'closed', False):
-                dest.flush()
         except IOError as err:
-            if (dest is self._ferr
-                and err.errno in (errno.EPIPE, errno.EIO, errno.EBADF)):
-                # no way to report the error, so ignore it
-                return
             raise error.StdioError(err)
         finally:
             self._blockedtimes['stdio_blocked'] += \