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Re:Things I wish they told you about Emacs by swhipple on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:43PM (#10585367)
Not the parent, but I also prefer shell to ansi-term for my daily usage.

My 99% use-case is running programs that don't need terminal emulator support, but I do commonly use Emacs keybindings for navigating around the buffer -- which requires switching between char and line modes when using ansi-term.

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Re:Things I wish they told you about Emacs by clynbech on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @08:29AM (#10587543)
It does not need to be either/or. I have configured the terminal mode of ansi-term to allow the cursor keys to move around in the buffer as usual exactly because I often like to back up a bit to look at some output and keeping remembering that the normal buffer movement keys was not available became annoying.
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