From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Vollmar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: shell-command: how to limit output buffer's height? Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:10:41 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223453512 22086 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2008 08:11:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 08:11:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 10:12:49 2008 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 1KnU9Z-0001Cz-At for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:12:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52538 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnU8R-00031a-Fg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnU8A-00031J-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnU88-00030y-CX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48724 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnU88-00030t-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:26856) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KnU87-0006Te-Vg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.nf.mpg.de ([134.95.44.50]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KnU84-0007fH-Tq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.21] (pD952766E.dip.t-dialin.net [217.82.118.110]) by mail.nf.mpg.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K8E00A37S0UAL10@mail.nf.mpg.de> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:12:30 +0200 (MEST) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Windows XP/2000 X-Greylist: delayed 3599 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at nadesico; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:42 EDT X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:58524 Archived-At: Hello, I am using shell-command to run an external program. The output is =20 display in a buffer "*Async Shell Command*" and I would like to limit =20= that buffer's window height to just a few lines. Is there something =20 similar to compilation-window-height for the shell-command? Many thanks in advance, Stefan --=20 Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys. Max-Planck-Institut f=FCr neurologische Forschung Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 K=F6ln, Germany Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298 Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279 Email: vollmar@nf.mpg.de http://www.nf.mpg.de