Re: scrolling in shell buffer

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Strange.  It did for me when I tried that.  I wrote a shell script
  > that produced a line of output every several seconds, then ran it in a
  > shell buffer, and switched away.  When I switched back to the shell
  > buffer, some seconds later, the buffer was full of lines and point was
  > shown on the last line.

It didn't work for me.  I ran a simple shell program

  while true; do sleep 15; echo foo; done

and when I switched back to the *shell* buffer it displayed
point (which was at eob) at mid-screen.

Then the next line came out and it scrolled to put point at the bottom.

I verified that scroll-conservatively was 100.

  > Is it possible that you tried that when the buffer had less than
  > windowful of text?

Just now, the line number at the end was over 29000.



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