On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 30, 10:59 pm, "seber...@spawar.navy.mil"
> <seber...@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:
> > "term" (term mode) is more like a real shell than "shell"
> >
> > I noticed you can't do certain keybindings in term mode.  It is as if
> > you lose all your Emacs key binding when you use term mode.
> >
> > Is there some way to find a happy medium between term and shell?
> > In other words, more power than shell w/o losing so many keybindings
> > like in term mode?
> >
> > chris
>
> there is a thing called Asking Too Much. Lol.
>
> there's "shell", and there's "term". (and there's "eshell" and
> "terminal-emulator")
>
> each one is created to be optimal for some purposes.
>
> Sure, you can add your personal customization on top of any to give
> your "happy middle". Though, unless you have a specific customization
> question... there's no such as happy middle in the already 4 variants.
>
> my personal q is what's the diff between term and terminal-emulator...
> never spend time on it. I'm very happy with just "shell". For any term
> need, i switch to a "real" term emulator.
>
>  Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
>


you can switch between term modes. using C-c c-j will put you in line mode
where term is behaves like a buffer , then u can use C-c c-k to switch back
to char mode. also if you have global set  keys in your .emacs they will
work.