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Re: *shell*: annoying behavior with long output
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: *shell*: annoying behavior with long output |
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Mon, 17 May 2004 18:14:21 -0400 |
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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.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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