From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:21:23 +0900 Organization: NEC Electronics Message-ID: 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> <3c2b0d8c-2d31-45f0-8eda-1af2320d8cf5@j9g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <0eab476b-cd5f-444d-b2af-d82ac076e73b@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247564475 30065 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2009 09:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:41:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 11:41:08 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 1MQeVY-00087d-9r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:41:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQeVX-0006Vs-GT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:41:07 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Trace: individual.net NfMt9F/+NYO4I2o4ss8v8QAyJQ/pyERRyULO5Sko28wKxyvWkJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:ioV+U6/J1CNy1GnF+yjozeYAcks= sha1:/dGrkm3YgeBCfGxudSzkecFtJw0= System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170858 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:66057 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > Why do you need a pager, when the Emacs shell buffer allows you to page > back and forward through the output, search it, etc.? What can you do > in a pager that you can't do with Emacs's own features? And if there is > something Emacs is missing, it should be easy to add it. BTW, note that if a command outputs lots of text, it's easy to go back to the previous prompt using "C-c C-p" and then page through the output with "C-v". -Miles -- Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.