wall of text pumping out while in shell

[Le Wang]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use my shell within Emacs more regularly.  One problem
that crops up often is a long running command unexpectedly is
outputing a tremendous amount of text (often having very long lines).
Now Emacs' display engine is the bottleneck to the program finishing.
I don't want to prematurely kill the program.

How do you guys solve this?  Is there a way to say I temporarily don't
care about getting live updates from this shell, and resume later?



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Le