<para>See <xref linkend="ghci-windows"/>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>The default buffering mode is different in GHCi to GHC.</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In GHC, the stdout handle is line-buffered by default.
+ However, in GHCi we turn off the buffering on stdout,
+ because this is normally what you want in an interpreter:
+ output appears as it is generated.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>