Re: weird emacs shell behavior

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net> writes:

> Joel J Adamson writes:
>
>> What's the difference between shell-mode and a terminal emulator?
> In the terminal emulator you can run *any* terminal program, be it a
> shell, a mailer or even VI (forgive the heresy!).  How the keybindings
> behave is dictated by the program running in the terminal.
>
> If you want to run a terminal program like "trn", "less" or "lynx" you
> have no option but `ansi-term'.  For running a command interpreter
> `shell-mode' offers you the best of both worlds: you can run your shell
> *and* have all Emacs text manipulation facilities at your disposal.
>
> Note that in shell-mode the command line editing provided by the your
> shell (e.g. "readline") is not available; "shell-mode" provides it's
> own command line editing facilities.

Those are my two reasons for preferring ansi-term.  I sometimes run
lynx in ansi-term.  When i'm using a terminal, I make extensive use of
command-line editing, so I didnt' like having the Emacs inter-line
commands work in the buffer instead of on the command line (ironic
though that is).

Joel

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