Re: address@hidden: Eamcs 22.1 comint-scroll-show-maximum-output bug]

[Chong Yidong]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> This is caused by your 2002-12-28 change to comint-mode that sets
> scroll-conseratively to 10000. This was reported and diagnosed two
> years ago, and you said:
>
>     From:      Richard M. Stallman
>     Subject:   Re: scrolling in comint mode always conservative
>     Date:      Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:03:02 -0400
>
>     I put that in because it did not work otherwise. So I can't take
>     it out. I could imagine conditionalizing that setq on some of
>     those other variables, such as comint-scroll-to-bottom... That
>     would not be 100% correct, since changing those variables would
>     not have the right effect on an existing shell buffer. But it
>     might be better than nothing.

I don't understand what the original problem is.  Taking out the
binding of scroll-conservatively does not seem to affect how Emacs
scrolls to the bottom.