From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: *shell*: annoying behavior with long output
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:14:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-44AFF7.18142117052004@comcast.dca.giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c8b772$2uk$1@reader2.panix.com
In article <c8b772$2uk$1@reader2.panix.com>,
bill <please_post@nomail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to tell the Emacs shell to keep the cursor at the
> top of the output in such a way that the top screenful of output
> is what is visible of the *shell* buffer immediately after executing
> a command?
It only moves the cursor if it's already at the end of output as more
output is coming. What you can do is type C-p as soon as you press
Return to execute a command that's going to produce lots of output.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-17 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-17 20:27 *shell*: annoying behavior with long output bill
2004-05-17 21:51 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-05-17 22:14 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2004-05-17 23:07 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-05-17 23:35 ` Michael Slass
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=barmar-44AFF7.18142117052004@comcast.dca.giganews.com \
--to=barmar@alum.mit.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.