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Re: scrolling in shell buffer
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raman |
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Re: scrolling in shell buffer |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:18:14 -0800 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
I agree with RMS here. And even if there are GUI terminals that do the
wrong thing, it doesn't mean that Emacs needs to race them to the bottom:-)>
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> > > 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.
>
> It is meant to resemble a terminal. I think it should treat this case
> like the other terminals we use. The Linux console scrolls the cursor
> to the bottom line, and so does the GNOME terminal.
>
> You can scroll back through the text, but there no use for scrolling forward
> and pusting the text out of the screen.
>
> > 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.
>
> Can you tell me the names of some that do this, and how I can see an
> example for myself?
--
- scrolling in shell buffer, Richard Stallman, 2016/12/18
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/18
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Richard Stallman, 2016/12/19
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Richard Stallman, 2016/12/20
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer,
raman <=
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/22
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Richard Stallman, 2016/12/23
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/23
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Richard Stallman, 2016/12/24
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/24
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Richard Stallman, 2016/12/25
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/25
- Re: scrolling in shell buffer, John Yates, 2016/12/19