From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:26:54 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <30a09a22-cd05-44b6-9b82-8a7e6c1796d5@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <87skh29ir6.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247406157 30458 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2009 13:42:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:42:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 15:42:30 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 1MPzK1-0000pV-VM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:42:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPzK1-00015h-C5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:42:29 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+TVbh4Hcmsz83bD4GPGjkl6vKEuI1zmfqz9uMznrNUVLLCscVE76j0PoV6gGhwfkBGn2IMv8ejFeUIZK1KABuhtFznQmoN+Kgk9v93fQiCE6SVNB89r9MAuYGXq+gkbwH5WCikF8Ws1k4S/XJZ3wxm Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:32:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19mXRscuBoP1xAQjW5/5wV62J0Bmy3OGvZ32b/Fb3ztSQ== Cancel-Lock: sha1:oZbO0Kac0gRQSsMMR0O+MgCzzzI= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170783 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:65982 Archived-At: Teemu Likonen writes: > On 2009-07-11 06:14 (-0700), Francis Moreau wrote: > >> M-x term has a nice feature 'page-at-a-time' which I'd like to have in >> M-x shell specially because commands like >> >> $ cmd-with-a-lof-of-output | less >> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional >> - (press RETURN) >> >> doesn't work properly. >> >> Does anybody know some trick here ? > > Emacs shell is a "dump" terminal which doesn't support (all) terminal > control codes. You need to use "M-x term" if you want a proper terminal > (but even that is not as good as the good old XTerm). http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/multi-term.el