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Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell


From: Richard Riley
Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:26:54 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> 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


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