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bell chars

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From: Tom Baker <tombaker17 <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 21652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#21652: bell chars
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:19:45 -0400

On 8/16/20, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thank you, Andreas, for that correction. You are right, I was speaking
in a "general usage", which was technically inexact.

On windows, one can run the CMD.EXE "shell" within the "Command
Window" that is a terminal emulator.

On platforms that support the bash "shell", it usually is not hard to
have it generate its own teminal emulator window. One can also just
run the "shell" within another terminal emulator.

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