Re: scrolling in shell buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:07:16 -0500
> 
> Customizing is not pertinent, since this issue I'm raising
> is about the proper default.
> 
> I think that we should make the default behavior for shell buffers,
> when point is at the end, to scroll to keep point at the bottom of the
> window.
> 
> Does anyone disagree that this behavior would be right?

By default?  I don't think I agree.  It's just another Emacs buffer.
Also, various terminal emulators on GUI systems let me scroll the
console window past its end, and don't scroll it back each time the
shell or some command run from the shell outputs something.