Re: [h-e-w] emacs 21.1 problem with -nw

[Roman Belenov]

I guess that making Emacs rely on window size opposing to buffer size
will require changing the code. It should be possible since cygwin's
port of Vim does exactly that.

Barry Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> I understand that.  Are you saying that M-v scrolls your console
> windows?  It doesn't mine.  The problem is that if I set the screen
> buffer to 2000 lines, and the window size to 80 lines in the properties
> for a console window, then run emacs -nw, emacs is 2000 lines tall, not
> 80 lines.  So the only way to scroll through the 2000 lines is with the
> scroll bar that windows puts on the console window.
> 
> Having the 2000 lines is nice for an interactive shell so I can scroll
> back and see things that have scrolled off.  But it makes it setting
> EDITOR to 'emacs -nw' pretty useless.  For now the only workaround I
> have is to always 'start emacs -nw' in a new console where the screen
> buffer and the window size match, or make sure that emacs never runs in
> text mode.
> 
> Barry Roberts 
> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Wojciech Komornicki [ mailto:address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden> ] 
> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:52 PM 
> > To: Emacs List (E-mail); Barry Roberts 
> > Subject: [h-e-w] emacs 21.1 problem with -nw 
> > 
> > 
> > I do not understand the question. You can move backwards through a 
> > buffer without a problem.  Use M-v 

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                                                        With regards, Roman.