From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:40:45 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87skh29ir6.fsf@iki.fi> References: <30a09a22-cd05-44b6-9b82-8a7e6c1796d5@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247406049 30208 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2009 13:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 15:40:42 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 1MPzII-0000H3-5G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPzIH-00074e-CT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.svpal.org!xmission!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18/d8u0VQkwFH5GIeQa8kuaKM9RT3nfB1I1rINT/51wjndUsw5tITzYTntYlsl9bdYtQTrr52wvG4xgZPUHm+6dYBpBW/Xc9awvooXewYZ1T6DAiKo4b75eFqL78RdS3E4gAVJEKy3+wYcF9zlSS+1X Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:45:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18AMS5G0BeYeNoKcWJSt3n+lJsEvbG1zEddfvnBuYZvyA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:TvIpVI3L/Krr9liPuRutfgGAWyk= sha1:nwC7f8jHbAPwoY4Igt5hQnPJx3A= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170781 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:65980 Archived-At: On 2009-07-11 06:14 (-0700), Francis Moreau wrote: > M-x term has a nice feature 'page-at-a-time' which I'd like to have in > M-x shell specially because commands like > > $ cmd-with-a-lof-of-output | less > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional > - (press RETURN) > > doesn't work properly. > > Does anybody know some trick here ? Emacs shell is a "dump" terminal which doesn't support (all) terminal control codes. You need to use "M-x term" if you want a proper terminal (but even that is not as good as the good old XTerm).