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The author confuses a terminal with a shell running in a terminal.

I'd like for my terminal to be able to open a stream of html in my web browser. Use case: running `man blahblah` in a ssh session opens a nicely formatted page in a local browser window.

I'd like for my terminal to be able to open a stream of text in my editor, and accept a stream of text back from my editor to save somewhere. Use case: running `sudo -e /etc/blahblah` in a ssh session allows me to edit the remote file /etc/blahblah in a local text editor, and save my changes back.



Aren't you confusing a terminal with a terminal emulator?


Possibly, although as far as traditional unix shells are concerned, they're the same thing.




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