Reuben Thomas wrote:
> r> I've tried M-x term under XEmacs 21.1.14 on both
RedHat 6.2, 7.1 and
>
> [...]
>
> Have you tried either 'M-x shell' or 'M-x eshell'? Either of those
> may behave better for you.
M-x shell works fine, as does eshell, but neither does full terminal
emulation.
> Specifically, which terminal programs do you wish to run from inside
> XEmacs?
Programs like top, tree & so on that use cursor positioning and color;
also color ls &c.
Note that shell-mode can handle colour via ansi-color.el (from the
text-modes package); use ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on to enable it.
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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net>