From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Subject: Re: Why have "shell" when there's "term"
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 23:10:16 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sb9Ea.36$e%3.204@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bbr3io$oh$1@reader1.panix.com
In article <bbr3io$oh$1@reader1.panix.com>,
J Krugman <jill_krugman@yahoo.com> wrote:
>But I guess the answer to my question is that Emacs has these two
>highly redundant functions because each has a constituency...
At least 90% of Unix programs don't make use of full-screen features, and
this is what M-x shell is designed to support. term is for applications
that depend on a video terminal for their UI.
--
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 23:10 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
2003-06-06 23:10 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2003-06-09 19:12 ` Subhankar Chatterjee
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