Re: M-x term & less -c

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> writes:

  > term doesn't clear the screen at the right time when you run 'less -c'.
  > I've noticed this on and off when piping commands through less.  If the
  > command takes a few moments to run you can see the problem.  Here's a
  > simple way to reproduce it with Emacs CVS as of a March 3rd:
  > 
  > emacs -Q
  > M-x term RET RET
  > 
  > Inside the term, type 'sleep 5 | less -c'.  '-c' tells less to clear the
  > screen first thing.  The screen doesn't clear until the sleep exits.

Hmm, I could reproduce this with -Q, but not without it.

It turns out that having:
(setq redisplay-dont-pause t)
in .emacs makes it work.

Not sure what would the right fix be...