Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On Jul 12, 9:41 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 12.07.2009 um 19:40 schrieb Francis Moreau:
>
> > And why is it so hard to understand that a pager feature would
> > be nice in this package ?

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> If the text cursor is at the end of the *shell* buffer and is pushed  
> away by fast effervescent output, faster than you can read, it's one  
> command to return to the prompt. It's easier to send the command and  
> make the cursor go up a line.

no.

BTW, some tools which being designed this 3 last couple years do send
their output to a pager by default.

> GNU Emacs is no terminal emulation.

But it offers the possibility. It's well described in the info pages
and the info pages never say that it's a deprecated usage.

> It does not need a pager. These  
> programmes were developed for hardware terminals from 20 or more  
> years ago. There is no sense in keeping them today, in a time of  
> feature full terminal emulations. They can be abolished together with  
> atom reactors and bombs.

So make it clear in the info page and see how people react.

> And your splendid idea.

I never claim to have a splendid idea. I just found weird that this is
not offered by M-x shell, whereas it is by M-x term...