From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6a088d78-bfa1-46aa-bf87-6efe4d875739@n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com> References: <30a09a22-cd05-44b6-9b82-8a7e6c1796d5@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <7bf1883b-3184-487c-a5a4-675f3e117342@l2g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <85269090-af0d-43fa-bd49-da265cbac558@p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <87fxd1iy86.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247474565 18778 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2009 08:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:42:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 13 10:42:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MQH7O-0004p5-Ft for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:42:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQH7N-0004b6-VI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:42:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.215.4.82 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247472459 30130 127.0.0.1 (13 Jul 2009 08:07:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.215.4.82; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042708 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.10, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 grimoire.wyplay.int:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE14) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170808 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66009 Archived-At: On Jul 12, 7:54=A0pm, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-07-12 10:40 (-0700), Francis Moreau wrote: > > > Some other Emacs commands already do that, M-x shell get the output of > > the command and put it in the buffer, so I would guess that it's not > > that hard to tell Emacs to display one page of output at time but it's > > just a guess... > > Please understand that "less" needs a _terminal_. Emacs's shell-mode is > not a terminal so "less" doesn't work. If the programs you use needs > terminal features then you must use a terminal, such as "M-x term". I did understand that ! If you read my post carefully, I'm asking why 'page-at-a-time' feature (available in M-x term) is not implemented in M-x shell where it would seem to be more needed.