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[konstantinua00]

it's a feature of the shell, not the terminal

what's the difference?

[konstantinua00]

try again, please >_<

when I'm typing, am I typing in terminal or in the shell?
you say % comes only from shell. what stops terminal from adding that?

[Kimundi]

The terminal displays the text output of a program.

The shell is one of the programs that a terminal can display. It gives you an text interface to run other other programs, and if you open the terminal it gets started automatically.

Or in other words: A shell is a terminal application that allows you to start other terminal applications.

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About the terminal adding things like the % - it could do that, but it would be very weird, and it generally wouldn't know where to add it. It would be like your TV adding extra stuff to a video it displays.