From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "more", "ls -l", and column 80 in shell Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <1150411474.595005.130180@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1150468947.138065.135840@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151196065 8599 80.91.229.2 (25 Jun 2006 00:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 25 02:41:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuIgJ-0003N8-F4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:40:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuIgI-00084W-Ua for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:40:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!NNTP.WPI.EDU!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1151195405 27885 166.84.1.1 (25 Jun 2006 00:30:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:30:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140015 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35639 Archived-At: In article , Peter Dyballa wrote: > >Am 16.06.2006 um 16:42 schrieb RjjdBae: > >> I use "more" in the shell window because I use the shell window, and I >> want to pause output conveniently. > >Learn to use isearch! In Emacs you can scroll up and down, what not >every terminal emulation allows. It's inappropriate using more in an >Emacs shell. > >> >> The first time I heard of eshell and term is today! I tried each: >> eshell exits when I execute a script that contains an "exit". term >> doesn't pass ^H to emacs. And eshell didn't get my .cshrc right; some >> commands didn't work, e.g. "set". > >Add some if's to .cshrc! This way your eshell can bypass codes that >only makes sense in an xterm or such. Examples? (eg from your .cshrc?) THANKS > >There is some way to bind the backspace key to the delete-backward- >char function. I do not know by heart how to. > ... > >The value of cwd can get lost, I know, this happens to me, too. Do >you set some cdpath? Do you have directories with non-ASCII >components in the name? SPACE should work. I think when cwd gets lost >it has to do with incorrect customisation, but I never tracked this >down, I either killed the *shell* buffer and created a new one or re- >launched whole GNU Emacs. With session or desktop the old layout >buffers are restored ... > How about a simple "M-x dirs" -- seems to re-sync *shell* to know where it *really* is. Works for me. > Thanks, David