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

[Teemu Likonen]

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).