Re: scrolling in shell buffer

[raman <raman@google.com>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:


I agree with RMS here. And even if there are GUI terminals that do the
wrong thing, it doesn't mean that Emacs needs to race them to the bottom:-)> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
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>   > > I think that we should make the default behavior for shell buffers,
>   > > when point is at the end, to scroll to keep point at the bottom of the
>   > > window.
>   > > 
>   > > Does anyone disagree that this behavior would be right?
>
>   > By default?  I don't think I agree.  It's just another Emacs buffer.
>
> It is meant to resemble a terminal.  I think it should treat this case
> like the other terminals we use.  The Linux console scrolls the cursor
> to the bottom line, and so does the GNOME terminal.
>
> You can scroll back through the text, but there no use for scrolling forward
> and pusting the text out of the screen.
>
>   > Also, various terminal emulators on GUI systems let me scroll the
>   > console window past its end, and don't scroll it back each time the
>   > shell or some command run from the shell outputs something.
>
> Can you tell me the names of some that do this, and how I can see an
> example for myself?

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