Re: *shell*: annoying behavior with long output

[Barry Margolin]

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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