bug#21737: 24.5; Minor feature request: `comint-previous-matching-input-from-input' and point

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:29:15 -0400
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>, Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
> 
> `comint-previous-matching-input-from-input' used to insert a match and
> leave the point at the end of the line.  I found that behavior much
> better than zsh and bash since when recalling old commands I edit the
> last part of the command much more often.  (In fact, I think that
> comint used to leave the point where it was years ago, since I
> remember having to tweak emacs to put it at the end.)
> 
> A few years ago, there was a bug & a patch reported by Le Wang about
> keeping the point at the same place -- something that I find really
> annoying...  The problem with this patch is that it has no option to
> leave the point at the end, forcing me to duplicate the whole function
> if I want that behavior.
> 
> So, this is a feature request to add such an option with a new custom
> variable.

Thanks.  Would you like to prepare a patch along these lines?