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[PATCH] Set PAGER=cat in comint.el

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Message #74 received at 62958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: sbaugh <at> catern.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 62958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Subject: Re: bug#62958: [PATCH] Set PAGER=cat in comint.el
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 18:13:59 +0000

>
> I will definitely customize the new option 'comint-pager' to "cat" as 
> soon as it arrives to master.  But for such cases when some commands 
> produce too long output, would it be also possible to provide an 
> additional option to set the number of lines to output before stopping?
>

Did you try "cat | head -N"?

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