Re: perks about telnet mode

[Miles Bader]

"Willard" <will6868@hotmail.com> writes:
>     Rlogin and telnet modes are out of date.  I have read some posts that
> indicate they may be dropped in the future.

I doubt it.  They are basically thin layers over shell/comint mode, and as
such, do their simple job pretty well (well, rlogin-mode does anyway, and
I'll make sure telnet-mode works nicely by the next release).

> You should try terminal mode (M-x term).  Terminal mode has 2 sub
> modes - character and line.  Using the pull down menu, you can change
> to line mode.  Line mode is a lot like shell mode.  To send a control
> key to the inferior, precede it with C-c.  In short, with term mode,
> you get a full featured terminal emulator, and most of the nice
> features of shell mode.

Actually, you don't -- shell-mode is rather nicer these days than term-mode
in line-mode (in Emacs 21 at least).  The author of term-mode has expressed
some interest in trying to merge term-mode with comint though; then
perhaps things could be a bit more seamless.

-Miles
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