From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John J Foerch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: difference between `term' and `ansi-term'? Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:06:31 -0500 Message-ID: <87prwy8ebc.fsf@earthlink.net> References: <87abonyf32.fsf@earthlink.net> <87ejdws8ml.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198368504 25075 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2007 00:08:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:08:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 23 01:08:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J6EON-0000dy-46 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:08:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J6EO3-0003Y0-3A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J6ENn-0003XD-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J6ENl-0003Vh-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:07:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J6ENl-0003Ve-82 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J6ENl-0004Kr-13 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J6EKQ-0004bL-6A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:04:26 +0000 Original-Received: from dialup-4.159.113.22.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([4.159.113.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:04:26 +0000 Original-Received: from jjfoerch by dialup-4.159.113.22.dial1.chicago1.level3.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:04:26 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-4.159.113.22.dial1.chicago1.level3.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/gvBzWeo7mseNKemlGtbGnkeROk= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50295 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > I don't think there is any real practicle difference anymore. However, from > memory, I don't think the original 'term' was ansie compliant,. Now, I > think the only difference is in how it generates the term buffer names - > ansi-term probably handles multiple terminals a little easier in that I > don't think you hve to rename an existing one before you open another > one. Apart from that, I think they are now both the same. > > Tim Thanks. --John Foerch