Hi - I looked into (what I think is)  this problem several years ago.
Eventually I concluded it was impossible because of the way the J session
manager adds lines to the end of the session but I do not recall the
details.

You may be better off using GUI windows to handle this.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Nick S <[email protected]> wrote:

> With jqt, I might try to dissect the prompt program to see exactly what it
> is doing and if it is applicable.  With emacs, well, the code for the mode
> is probably written in lisp, so you can hack on that just like anything
> else to get it to do what you want.  If not, there is source somewhere.
>
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:02 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Why do you say that you aren't using stdout?
> >
> > What happens when you use 1!:2&4?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Dabrowski, Andrew John
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 01/02/2018 03:52 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > (Won't backspace bring you back to previous lines?)
> > >
> > > Exasperatingly, no.  Although normally I can backspace my way all over
> a
> > comint buffer, with (1!:3)&2 that doesn't work
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyways, 1!:2&4 should give you the incomplete lines you are looking
> > > for in jconsole. But note that they have different behavior in jqt
> > > (you won't be seeing them if you don't make special arrangements).
> > >
> > > Right, but I'm not using stout.  Is this the intended behavior of
> > (1!:3)&2 or do you think it might be a bug?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
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