Re: weird emacs shell behavior

[Joel J. Adamson]

Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net> writes:

> Joel J Adamson writes:
> No need to resort to `ansi-term', which is a full terminal-emulator.
> You can have shell mode interpret those codes using
> `ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on'.

What's the difference between shell-mode and a terminal emulator?  I
had trouble getting used to shell-mode, so I refused to learn much
about it.

Joel

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