From: J Krugman <jill_krugman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Why have "shell" when there's "term"
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 22:11:36 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bbr3io$oh$1@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y90f9mm7.fsf@blarg.net
In <87y90f9mm7.fsf@blarg.net> Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:
>In shell mode, all of Emacs is readily avaiable; in term mode, it
>isn't.
>Here's what I mean:
>* in shell mode, you can easily scroll back to the beginning of the
> buffer with M-<, just like any other buffer; I don't think there's
> any way to do that in term.
>* in shell mode, you can copy anything in the buffer -- your input or
> the computer's output -- with M-w, just like any other buffer; I
> don't think there's any way to do that in term.
>Etc. etc.
You can easily do all that in term. Just go into line mode (C-c
C-j), and when you're done with doing Emacs stuff, go back to char
mode (C-c C-k).
But I guess the answer to my question is that Emacs has these two
highly redundant functions because each has a constituency...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-06 12:57 Why have "shell" when there's "term" J Krugman
2003-06-06 14:13 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-06-06 15:13 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-06-06 14:32 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
2003-06-07 11:41 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-06-06 16:50 ` Eric Hanchrow
2003-06-06 22:11 ` J Krugman [this message]
2003-06-06 23:10 ` Barry Margolin
2003-06-09 19:12 ` Subhankar Chatterjee
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