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Re: comint-previous-prompt in *shell* fooled just too often
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Kai Großjohann |
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Re: comint-previous-prompt in *shell* fooled just too often |
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23 Feb 2001 19:47:56 +0100 |
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On 23 Feb 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> How about having it at least take a look around first before I hit
> return [or after previous return] to see what its current prompt is,
> or maybe remember a list of previous spots in the buffer... all
> better that relying on a regexp?
Don't make it too smart. Users won't understand it anymore.
Suppose your .bashrc does "echo -n foo" at the end, then the shell
would think your prompt is "foo$ ". Not good.
Just my two cents.
kai
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