Re: *shell*: annoying behavior with long output

[Johan Bockgård]

bill <please_post@nomail.com> 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.

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Johan Bockgård