Three ansi-term tips

Tip #1

There's no reason not to have /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh as the default choice when you M-x term.

(setq explicit-shell-file-name "/bin/bash")

Tip #2

After you close the terminal, you get a useless buffer with no process. It's probably left there for you to have a history of what you did. I find it not useful, so here's a way to kill that buffer automatically:

(defun oleh-term-exec-hook ()
  (let* ((buff (current-buffer))
         (proc (get-buffer-process buff)))
    (set-process-sentinel
     proc
     `(lambda (process event)
        (if (string= event "finished\n")
            (kill-buffer ,buff))))))

(add-hook 'term-exec-hook 'oleh-term-exec-hook)

Tip #3

By default, C-y calls term's own yank, which is different from Emacs's yank. So, until recently, I was using S-<insert> to paste stuff into *term*. Here's a more ergonomic way:

(eval-after-load "term"
  '(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-c C-y") 'term-paste))