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

[Colin S. Miller]

July wrote:
> Apparently, shell has some worry with man, esp. i don't like shell 
> because under shell, if you tape, "echo $Term" it gives
> TERM = dumb,
>
> if I understand well, dumb means stupid in English, so shell is actually 
> laught at the user...


"Dumb" here means that the terminal does not support cursor-movement
commands. These allow the program running in the shell to draw
characters at arbitrary locations on the screen, and is used to
create TUI interfaces, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_user_interface.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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