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

[Lute Kamstra]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth(nospam)@usit.uio(nospam).no> writes:

> I just tried M-x term and didn't like it.  Normal Emacs keystrokes were
> no longer available, so I couldn't e.g. copy text and yank it elsewhere
> the same way as before.  The Info mode says C-c C-k turns on line mode
                                              ^^^^^^^
                                              C-c C-j does this

[There is a bug in the info documentation.  It is fixed in CVS.]

> which makes it more like M-x shell, but that seems to have been
> overstating the case.

Lute.

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