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

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 13.07.2009 um 11:38 schrieb Francis Moreau:

> OK, so what am I supposed to run in this shell interpreter ?

Everything but pagers and other programmes or utilities that control  
the cursor. Some ANSI compliance is achieved, to support gls'  
colourful output or bash colourising the prompt.

> I can understand that I can't start mutt or any other appli that needs
> all term environment in M-x shell, but the feature I'm asking is not
> specific to term emulation,

You're wrong: pagers take full cursor control over the terminal.  
They're no simple filters (source code is available), because then  
they would have been implemented as simple shell scripts. Like, for  
example, which.

> it's just a goodies to make life easier when reading the _text_  
> output of any commands I start from this shell
> interpreter.


Write some simple Lua, Ruby, Python, Perl, Shell, or whatever script  
which counts lines and echoes a (fixed or not) number of them to  
stdout. Or, much simpler, change your mind and bethink yourself of  
the task or the aim you want to reach. Is it using a pager? Then take  
*term* buffer or xterm, or aterm, or…


Probably the *very* best is to take one week holidays. At least.

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  Pete

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