From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:07:11 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87d48439ls.fsf@iki.fi> References: <30a09a22-cd05-44b6-9b82-8a7e6c1796d5@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <7bf1883b-3184-487c-a5a4-675f3e117342@l2g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <85269090-af0d-43fa-bd49-da265cbac558@p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <87fxd1iy86.fsf@iki.fi> <6a088d78-bfa1-46aa-bf87-6efe4d875739@n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <874oth3se0.fsf@iki.fi> <76036640-c499-482c-81c0-9e0cb325e96a@k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <87r5wk3o87.fsf@iki.fi> <87vdlwloau.fsf@mundaneum.com> <873a90d4gm.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247500101 1503 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2009 15:48:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:48:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 13 17:48:15 2009 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 1MQNlG-0003xA-9N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:48:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQNlF-0002LQ-Lh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:48:13 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19LybUZdT3W23PrIWDPEOvRMBAJ8cx1n16UANK4bx2dIo/BDr+amqR4STaeXnqOlXQDip8CX0Nz9iPTvXFT3ZhblM+r9RXNJEY4qH5bQFb9XmVoniVxGEeWasRq89WhNnaeI5QGiGol9A== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:12:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/h1IjnTamPUaPO0x+JwlLon6EVRYV2LSfIaK/6S2lpmA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:zEPJ0HSkByhayz1DmxEXDw8pfw8= sha1:n7E7O17q4Y4HOw5wC8E8zreJ7Mw= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170836 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:66036 Archived-At: On 2009-07-13 16:48 (+0200), Anselm Helbig wrote: > With M-x shell you're using emacs to construct the command to pass to > the shell. This is an advantage if you shell doesn't keep a history or > offers no completion mechanism. Also, you can use isearch to search > through the command output, copy stuff into the kill ring or use the > rectangle functions. Or you might just prefer the emacs keybindings > over the one's your shell offers. 8-) I'd like to point out that term-mode has also the so called "line mode" (C-c C-j) in which user can wander around the buffer pretty much like anywhere else in Emacs. Kill-ring commands, isearch etc. work. Then there is "char mode" (C-c C-k), the default, which is like your normal terminal emulator except the escape key.