At 13:45 10/6/97, Daniel Ryan wrote:
>Does anyone know how to limit the buffer size
>of a lisp listener when allegro is run from
>inside xemacs?
>
>Ideally this would be as simple as being able
>to set some max number of lines X to be saved
>such that the oldest are discarded as new
>output is sent by lisp and displayed at the
>bottom of the buffer

why would anybody want to do something like that ?? the great thing really
is that all the output is saved in an emacs buffer, in contrast to a stupid
xterm.
(though it helps to occasionally exit the lisp image and kill the
*common-lisp* buffer anyway to start over again, after you have accumulated
tens of MB of crud.  :-)

Greetings
Markus Krummenacker