On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:04 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > In Macland it's called the terminal emulator: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28OS_X%29
To be strictly correct, the "shell" would be the thing you run that gives you a prompt, and the "terminal emulator" would be the thing you run that gives you a black box on your GUI. On my Linux box here (Debian Wheezy with Xfce), I use xfce4-terminal as my terminal emulator, and bash as my shell. You could alternatively use gnome-terminal, or you could use csh for your shell, or whatever strikes your fancy. Macs are no different here; they have a terminal emulator (which is usually just called "Terminal" aiui), and a shell (usually bash, though not quite the bash I know from my systems - maybe a different version). It's Windows that is the oddball. You can't easily find the terminal emulator, though it does have one. People think of "running cmd.exe" to get a "shell", which in reality is both a terminal and a shell inside that terminal. But ultimately, it's still the same. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
