From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#62958: [PATCH] Set PAGER=cat in comint.el Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 20:49:05 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86fs81l9ta.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <83edof6oln.fsf@gnu.org> <83zg724kea.fsf@gnu.org> <835y97jnfd.fsf@gnu.org> <83pm7aay70.fsf@gnu.org> <874jol1rml.fsf@catern.com> <86y1lw4mjr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <030b4f83a575bd1be4e5@heytings.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32266"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, Eli Zaretskii , 62958@debbugs.gnu.org, Spencer Baugh To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 12 19:53:25 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pxWxJ-0008Er-8p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 May 2023 19:53:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pxWwx-0005jb-VF; Fri, 12 May 2023 13:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pxWww-0005j7-Ia for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2023 13:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pxWww-0003Yo-A0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2023 13:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pxWww-0001e1-1j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2023 13:53:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 17:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 62958 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 62958-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B62958.16839139456257 (code B ref 62958); Fri, 12 May 2023 17:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 62958) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 May 2023 17:52:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60993 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pxWwL-0001co-B6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2023 13:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:48725) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pxWwJ-0001cX-Is for 62958@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2023 13:52:23 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C201CE0002; Fri, 12 May 2023 17:52:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <030b4f83a575bd1be4e5@heytings.org> (Gregory Heytings's message of "Wed, 10 May 2023 18:13:59 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:261637 Archived-At: >> I will definitely customize the new option 'comint-pager' to "cat" as >> soon as it arrives to master. But for such cases when some commands >> produce too long output, would it be also possible to provide an >> additional option to set the number of lines to output before stopping? > > Did you try "cat | head -N"? Now I tried out, and it works as expected. Only there is no indication that the output is truncated. But probably such indication is not important with overly long output.