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


From: Francis Moreau
Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:29:09 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 13, 12:43 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> 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.
>

[...]

>
> 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.
>

Ok, I give up.

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

yeah, I probably need it specially after such discussion ;)

thanks anyway


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