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1.1 Overview

The term mode is used to control a program (an "inferior process"). It sends most keyboard input characters to the program, and displays output from the program in the buffer. This is similar to the traditional comint mode, and modes derived from it (such as shell and gdb modes). You can do with the new term-based shell the same sort of things you could do with the old shell mode, using more or less the same interface. However, the new mode is more flexible, and works somewhat differently.