Re: M-x term strange behaviour.

[Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:43:14AM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm using "M-x term"  to get a shell inside emacs.
>
>But it seems to not working as expected: for example when starting less(1),
>inspecting a file (I know I could have used emacs for that) and exiting, the
>terminal window is not restored as it was before starting less(1). Instead the
>content of the file visited by less(1) still appears.
>
>Of course this behaviour does not occur when using less(1) inside an xterm.
>
>Can anybody give me some advices here ?
>
>Should I use a different terminal (M-x terminal-emulator...) ?

You can get the behaviour you want with less in the eshell, but as a
previous thread on this list discussed there are other areas where
the eshell differs from expected behaviour [1]

I still don't know when one would choose terminal-emulator, would someone
be able to provide an example when terminal-emulator would be required
for a task that term could not do?

Cheers,
Jonathan.

[1] http://tinyurl.com/66hxbp