From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:27:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ddb72bf8-9615-43b2-9658-e3dd3a335993@33g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r5wk3o87.fsf@iki.fi
On Jul 13, 11:51 am, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-07-13 02:16 (-0700), Francis Moreau wrote:
>
> > On Jul 13, 10:21 am, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> >> OK, then it's probably me who fails to understand why do you keep
> >> talking about "M-x shell" when you need a terminal. This
> >> "page-at-a-time" feature comes with terminal emulation. There's no
> >> need to make "M-x shell" a real terminal because there already is
> >> one: "M-x term".
>
> > Ok then it's probably me who fails to understand the point of "M-x
> > shell"...
>
> The documentation says "Major mode for interacting with an inferior
> shell" (C-h f shell-mode). It's like repeated M-! but more convenient.
>
> > If "M-x shell" implements this 'page-at-a-time' feature, does that
> > mean it becomes a real term emulation ?
>
> To make "less" work it needs some terminal features so it would heading
> towards that direction, that is, towards term-mode which already exists.
> Perhaps someone could write some custom pager system in shell-mode but
> it still wouldn't make "less" work.
>
Damn, I repeat one more time: I don't want "| less" or less(1) work in
"M-x shell" (hope this is clear now)
IOW, I'd like 'M-x shell' to output in its buffer one page at time,
and this could be enabled/disabled by a variable like "M-x term" does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-13 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-11 13:14 page-at-a-time output for M-x shell Francis Moreau
2009-07-11 13:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-11 15:04 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-07-11 17:29 ` Sumit Narayan
[not found] ` <mailman.2292.1247324671.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-11 18:06 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-12 12:24 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-12 17:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-11 14:19 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2288.1247322297.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-12 12:20 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-12 13:45 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2349.1247406371.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-12 14:12 ` Richard Riley
2009-07-12 17:47 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-12 17:40 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-12 17:54 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-13 8:07 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-13 8:21 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-13 9:16 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-13 9:51 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-13 11:27 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2009-07-13 13:12 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-07-13 14:48 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-13 15:07 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-14 15:07 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-14 17:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-14 20:02 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-14 22:42 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-07-12 19:41 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-07-13 5:17 ` tomas
2009-07-13 8:10 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2380.1247427719.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-13 8:03 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-13 9:04 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2414.1247475890.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-13 9:38 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-13 10:43 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2418.1247481796.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-13 11:29 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-13 20:42 ` Samuel Wales
[not found] ` <mailman.2451.1247517772.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-13 22:05 ` Teemu Likonen
[not found] ` <mailman.2453.1247522780.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-14 10:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-14 15:10 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-14 17:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-14 19:21 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.2508.1247599009.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-14 19:52 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-14 20:39 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-14 20:00 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-14 3:12 ` Barry Margolin
2009-07-14 9:21 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-14 15:20 ` Francis Moreau
2009-07-14 17:39 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-14 21:05 ` Barry Margolin
2009-07-13 9:53 ` Richard Riley
2009-07-12 12:40 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-12 13:26 ` Richard Riley
2009-07-12 14:52 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-07-13 21:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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