From: Larry Troxler

Subject: Emacs interface - how do you get prompt to bottom of frame?

Date: 1999-1-28 23:03

Allegro CL for Linux version 5.0, Xemacs 20.3., Eli version 2.0.21.16 :

In Inferior Common Lisp mode, i.e. when running an ACL session in
Xemacs, the Lisp prompt does not end up on the last line of the buffer. 
Obviously, this is a pretty severe problem, since as much as the bottom
halft of the frame becomes wasted space. The last time I seriously
investigated this, I remember finding some sort of re-centering function
that I was able to bind to a key, to at least manually shift the prompt
down to the last line of the buffer, after the output was finished. Now
I can't even figure out that much (the Xemacs docs are pretty poor).


This must be an age-old problem, yet I don't remember seing any answers
on this list.  Does this mean that nobody uses emacs anymore, or has
this finally been solved in the ACL/emacs interface code?

If the former, is there a better Lisp-aware editor that can run ACL as a
supprocess?

Thanks in advance!

Larry