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From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why do we need a number of different terminal modes in Emacs?
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:09:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <malfhp$7oo$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.19095.1422789865.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Andrey Lisin <andrey.lisin@gmail.com> writes:

> BTW, I just found a good explanation here:
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104325/what-is-the-difference-between-shell-eshell-and-term-in-emacs

Yes, pretty clear.

Your question left out M-!.

There are other ways to accomplish what a shell does more tightly bound
to Emacs, like:

ls -> dired
make -> M-x compile
grep -> M-x grep

these commands offer advantages over a shell buffer.
Years ago I used to use M-x shell, but I no longer find use for any of
these  shell interfaces.

-- 
Dan Espen


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-01 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.19088.1422774606.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-01 10:37 ` Why do we need a number of different terminal modes in Emacs? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-02-01 11:10   ` Andrey Lisin
2015-02-01 11:24     ` Andrey Lisin
     [not found]     ` <mailman.19095.1422789865.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-01 15:09       ` Dan Espen [this message]
2015-02-01 22:16         ` Robert Thorpe
2015-02-01  7:09 Andrey Lisin
2015-02-01 13:37 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-02-01 14:10   ` Andrey Lisin
2015-02-01 15:00 ` Marcin Borkowski

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