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[PATCH] Set PAGER=cat in comint.el

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: sbaugh <at> catern.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 62958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Subject: bug#62958: [PATCH] Set PAGER=cat in comint.el
Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 20:49:05 +0300

>> 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"?

Now I tried out, and it works as expected.  Only there is no indication
that the output is truncated.  But probably such indication is not important
with overly long output.

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