From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lute Kamstra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why have "shell" when there's "term" Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 13:41:58 +0200 Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054986348 9323 80.91.224.249 (7 Jun 2003 11:45:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 13:45:46 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Oc8o-0002Py-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2003 13:45:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Oc8O-0003ZA-61 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2003 07:45:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!surfnet.nl!news.surfnet.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: occarina.pna.cwi.nl Original-X-Trace: news.surfnet.nl 1054986118 14486 192.16.184.200 (7 Jun 2003 11:41:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.surfnet.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:41:58 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Hallvard B. Furuseth's message of "06 Jun 2003 16:32:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OaCCZ42VBh9YW/xeAbfuFxywUTU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114266 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10760 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10760 Hallvard B Furuseth writes: > I just tried M-x term and didn't like it. Normal Emacs keystrokes were > no longer available, so I couldn't e.g. copy text and yank it elsewhere > the same way as before. The Info mode says C-c C-k turns on line mode ^^^^^^^ C-c C-j does this [There is a bug in the info documentation. It is fixed in CVS.] > which makes it more like M-x shell, but that seems to have been > overstating the case. Lute. -- (spook) => "Comirex ISEC NASA" (insert-file-contents "~/.signature") => (error "`~/.signature' too rude")