Re: Why have "shell" when there's "term"

[J Krugman]

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...