GNU bug report logs - #18106
term, ansi-term: clarify documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:30:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18106: term, ansi-term: clarify documentation
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:41:18 -0500

tags 18106 fixed
close 18106 26.1
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Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com> writes:

> AFAICS nowadays there is no real difference between `term` and
> `ansi-term` regarding the ANSI part. Could you clarify this fact in
> the doc strings? The names are very misleading regarding the (just
> cosmetic) differences between these interactive functions.

Done in emacs-26.

[1: 732d1b9383]: 2018-01-30 22:14:03 -0500
  Clarify that `ansi-term' is almost the same as `term' (Bug#18106)
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=732d1b9383a9381896df12a2762991c3ed68b025
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