From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?Johan_Bockg=E5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: *shell*: annoying behavior with long output Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 23:51:50 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084831509 23662 80.91.224.253 (17 May 2004 22:05:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 00:04:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPqEC-00028S-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 00:04:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPqBN-0002n0-Ir for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:02:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!feed.news.tiscali.de!uninett.no!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-stoc.telia.net!news-stoa.telia.net!telia.net!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!dd.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: eorl.dd.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.2 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qLN6H6FRHbRQ0LBBVq0+hObY8ik= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123241 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18535 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18535 bill writes: > Another thing I've tried is to set the mark before executing a > command, and then C-x C-x after executing it. The problem with this > is that the top of the output gets placed in the middle of the > screen, so I have to do C-u 0 C-l to see the top screenful of > output. Besides, this works only when I know ahead of time that the > output will be long. C-M-l (`comint-show-output') Display start of this batch of interpreter output at top of window. Sets mark to the value of point when this command is run. -- Johan Bockgård