From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [vrotney@earthlink.net: Eamcs 22.1 comint-scroll-show-maximum-output bug] Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:15:18 -0400 Message-ID: <87wsvi5qmh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188138042 26601 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2007 14:20:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 16:20:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPIye-0004iw-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:20:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPIye-0004O8-1Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:20:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPIya-0004MI-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPIyY-0004Ik-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:20:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPIyY-0004Ih-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:20:26 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPIyS-0002fY-SN; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 965594E36B; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:15:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri\, 24 Aug 2007 19\:04\:45 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77208 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > This is caused by your 2002-12-28 change to comint-mode that sets > scroll-conseratively to 10000. This was reported and diagnosed two > years ago, and you said: > > From: Richard M. Stallman > Subject: Re: scrolling in comint mode always conservative > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:03:02 -0400 > > I put that in because it did not work otherwise. So I can't take > it out. I could imagine conditionalizing that setq on some of > those other variables, such as comint-scroll-to-bottom... That > would not be 100% correct, since changing those variables would > not have the right effect on an existing shell buffer. But it > might be better than nothing. I don't understand what the original problem is. Taking out the binding of scroll-conservatively does not seem to affect how Emacs scrolls to the bottom.