From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9906: 24.0.90; Term / comint integration Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:35:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mxcja5yr.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340264208 14888 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2012 07:36:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:36:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9906@debbugs.gnu.org To: Antoine Levitt Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 09:36:47 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Shbwc-0005h6-0o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Shbwb-0002uZ-Ta for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShbwU-0002sO-1U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShbwN-0000e6-WB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShbwN-0000dv-Sz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Shbzm-00014Z-CV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:40:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87mxcja5yr.fsf@gmail.com> Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9906 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9906-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9906.13402643524051 (code B ref 9906); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9906) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Jun 2012 07:39:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50619 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Shbyw-00013G-15 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:40823) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Shbys-000138-Qe for 9906@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShbvS-0000L3-31; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:35:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:61164 Archived-At: > Term and comint share a lot of functionnalities. Comint lacks a few > features, for instance char/line-mode for direct input. > > From what I understand, a good solution would be to make sure that no > functionality is missing from term.el that's in comint, and deprecate > comint. Term and comint have different purposes. Term is a full-blown terminal emulator, which has the advantages of supporting curses applications; comint is intended to be a dumb terminal, which has its own advantages like not worrying so much about window sizes. There is no way term will deprecate comint.