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Re: Why have "shell" when there's "term"
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Lute Kamstra |
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Re: Why have "shell" when there's "term" |
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Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:13:53 +0200 |
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J Krugman <jill_krugman@yahoo.com> writes:
> It seems to me that "M-x term" is in every way superior to "M-x
> shell". What's the point of the latter?
I'm curious: can you be a bit more specific? Can you give examples of
things which are done better by `term' then by `shell'?
I've been using `shell' for quite some time and am quite happy with
it. I just tried `term' for the first time in Emacs 21 and it seemed
broken as a simple ls in bash spat out badly aligned text columns.
IIRC, it used to work in Emacs 20. Do you use the latter version?
[Mental note: write bug report.]
Lute.
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