Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell

[Barry Margolin]

In article 
<0eab476b-cd5f-444d-b2af-d82ac076e73b@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 13, 11:04 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> > Am 13.07.2009 um 10:03 schrieb Francis Moreau:
> >
> > > I never claim to have a splendid idea. I just found weird that this is
> > > not offered by M-x shell, whereas it is by M-x term...
> >
> > The one offers an environment to run a shell interpreter  
> > interactively in it,
> 
> OK, so what am I supposed to run in this shell interpreter ?
> 
> I can understand that I can't start mutt or any other appli that needs
> all term environment in M-x shell, but the feature I'm asking is not
> specific to term emulation, it's just a goodies to make life easier
> when reading the _text_ output of any commands I start from this shell
> interpreter.

Why do you need a pager, when the Emacs shell buffer allows you to page 
back and forward through the output, search it, etc.?  What can you do 
in a pager that you can't do with Emacs's own features?  And if there is 
something Emacs is missing, it should be easy to add it.

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