GNU bug report logs - #21652
bell chars

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Baker <tombaker17 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 23:11:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 21652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Tom Baker <tombaker17 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: Re: bug#21652: bell chars
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 18:34:29 +0200

On Aug 16 2020, Tom Baker wrote:

> This is correct.  Most non-emacs shells have a scrolling limit, so
> eventually command output scrolls off the top of the screen and is lost
> forever.

That's a property of the terminal emulator, not the shell.  For example,
konsole can be configured to infinite scrollback.

Andreas.

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