From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: erase-buffer (was: with-output-to-temp-buffer) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:47:53 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200405112347.IAA09183@etlken.m17n.org> References: <20040429.150303.42778779.wl@gnu.org> <200404300142.KAA01027@etlken.m17n.org> <87u0z1puxa.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200404301326.WAA02744@etlken.m17n.org> <8765bga5tt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200405020157.KAA07108@etlken.m17n.org> <200405060505.OAA21188@etlken.m17n.org> <200405061310.WAA22378@etlken.m17n.org> <200405101213.VAA04125@etlken.m17n.org> <87ekpsuzqa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <877jvjnl4g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200405112306.IAA09060@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084320000 4540 80.91.224.253 (12 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 12 01:59:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNh3B-0004FI-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 01:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNh3A-00005v-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 01:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNh0X-0001HZ-Oq for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 19:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNgzq-0001EP-86 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 19:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNgzD-000121-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 19:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNgyb-0000rP-Lc; Tue, 11 May 2004 19:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4BNlrP19498; Wed, 12 May 2004 08:47:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by fs.m17n.org (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4BNlr913060; Wed, 12 May 2004 08:47:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id IAA09183; Wed, 12 May 2004 08:47:53 +0900 (JST) Original-To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 11 May 2004 19:34:54 -0400) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23196 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23196 In article , Stefan Monnier writes: >>> M-x erase-buffer RET. >> I often use it in *shell* and *gdb* buffers when they grow too much. > Why not comint-truncate-buffer? M-x era RET is shorter than M-x comint-t RET. The more realistic reason is that the former is more reliable because the latter leaves comint-buffer-maximum-size lines and that may be still huge when a program produces long output without newlines. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org