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

[Francis Moreau]

On Jul 12, 7:54 pm, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-07-12 10:40 (-0700), Francis Moreau wrote:
>
> > Some other Emacs commands already do that, M-x shell get the output of
> > the command and put it in the buffer, so I would guess that it's not
> > that hard to tell Emacs to display one page of output at time but it's
> > just a guess...
>
> Please understand that "less" needs a _terminal_. Emacs's shell-mode is
> not a terminal so "less" doesn't work. If the programs you use needs
> terminal features then you must use a terminal, such as "M-x term".

I did understand that !

If you read my post carefully, I'm asking why 'page-at-a-time' feature
(available in M-x term) is not implemented in M-x shell where it would
seem to be more needed.