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- From: theobald@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Allen M. Theobald)
- Subject: *shell* and *cmushell*
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.223822.24368@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 22:38:22 GMT
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- Hello netters!
-
- Help!
-
- More does not work correctly in *shell* or *cmushell*. Items
- scroll off the screen before I have a chance to read them. It
- seems once the text hits the bottom of the screen instead of
- just scrolling it appears to scroll and then repositions the
- prompt in the center of the screen. The net effect is that I lose
- some text at the top, and the '---MORE---' is in the middle of
- the screen (is this making sense?).
-
- I'm running emacs 18.58.1, in MOTIF/X-Windows, under ksh.
-
- I assume the Emacs *shell* window is accomplished by opening pipes to
- a background process running sh (or whatever). Since the
- shell process is communicating via pipes rather than terminal
- devices, it assumes stdout, sterr, etc., are NON-INTERACTIVE
- descriptors. The more(1) command checks for the interactive
- flag before actually asking for the prompt. Therefore, more
- doe not appear to work in Emacs (or rather, it works like cat).
-
- Is there a fix someplace????
-
-
- Thanks,
-
- Allen M. Theobald
-