Re: Terminal is not fully functional: from Shell of Emacs

[jpkotta <jpkotta@gmail.com>]

On Sep 24, 11:25 am, Jean Magnan de Bornier <j...@bornier.net> wrote:
> Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote :
>
> | July <zell...@orange.fr> writes:
>
> | >> By "the shell of Emacs" do you mean "M-x shell" command? If so, the
> | >> warning is correct, "M-x shell" is not terminal at all, it's a kind of
> | >> repeated shell command prompt. If you need a terminal inside Emacs use
> | >> "M-x term".
> | >
> | > You are totally right. Thanks a lot.
> | >
> | > How ever, another question plz.
> | >
> | > There are 3 shells now for emacs
> | > shell (activated by esc-x shell)
> | > term
> | > eshell
> | >
> | > what are their difference? Which one you recommand?
> | >
>
> Well, there is M-x ansi-term too; I don't know in what respect it is
> different from term, but I have always preferred it to others since I gave
> it a try.
>
> bye
> --
> Jean

I really like multi-term (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultiTerm).
It's just a simple layer on top of term-mode, but makes it much more
usable IMHO.