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why not let users know how long shell output is without further ado?


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: why not let users know how long shell output is without further ado?
Date: 11 Feb 2002 06:07:11 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

Gentlemen,   #sounds serious, must be a bug.
Consider when we do something that produces more than a screen of
output, like
(shell-command "seq 1 1 111")
The window splits, we see two pieces of information appear in the modeline:
"L1" and "Top".  Nowhere are we told if we are looking at a 111, 1111,
or 11111 line buffer.  Why in this day and age must we do some other
actions now to learn this.  Why can't we know more than Top without
having to do extra keystrokes at this point?  Perhaps if we only knew
how long the buffer was we could go on to do other things instead of
having to now make a special effort to find out more.  [|wc is cool,
but perhaps we also wanted to see what the start of the file looked
like too.]

L1 and Top are nice.  You could report a total line count in the
message line at the bottom of the screen... however I like something
less volatile.  [Fix M-!, dired !, etc.]
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