I wrote term mode but long ago stopped maintaining it. So other people have made hacks on top of my hacks ... One of my goals was to unify shell-mode (and rel

I wrote term mode but long ago stopped maintaining it. So other people have made hacks on top of my hacks ... One of my goals was to unify shell-mode (and related "comint" modes) with a proper terminal emulator, but had a hard time getting traction for this. So people added horrible hacks like color support to shell-mode, instead of improving term-mode. I mentioned this unification goal recently (see bug#22785 "comint/shell modes should be merged with term mode"), but people still don't get it. These days I'm back to working on terminal emulators, but using Web technologies (DOM, JavaScript, CSS). It's pretty cool, IMNSHO. Please check out DomTerm (http://domterm.org http://domterm.org).