From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: difference between `term' and `ansi-term'? Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:08:18 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87ejdws8ml.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87abonyf32.fsf@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197182494 20506 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2007 06:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 06:41:34 +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 09 07:41:44 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 1J1FrC-00043B-IF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:41:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1Fqv-00046o-Bd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:41:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed20.multikabel.net!multikabel.net!newsfeed10.multikabel.net!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-03!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mNCiL7BYt5lbY3Gj//W6o8YYCQQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 22 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154523 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:49949 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow writes: >>>>>> "John" == John J Foerch writes: > > John> Hi, What is the practical difference between `M-x term' and > John> `M-x ansi-term'. > > I've wondered that for years. > 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 -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au