Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

>> 2) It may require to update the regexp.
>
> The prompt regexp is (thankfully) almost irrelevant in Emacs 30
> now. It only matters for paragraph-movement commands, which we 
> could
> probably just remap to the actual Eshell-specific commands to 
> navigate
> forward and backward through the prompts. I should probably just 
> make
> a patch for this and finally get rid of that regexp entirely.

I didn't know that, thanks.

>> In this case I would add a small delay before signaling that
>> something is running.
>
> The delay isn't present in the current Eshell mode-line
> implementation, and I don't think anyone's raised an issue about
> that...

Sorry, I meant that if we decided to show a relative long message 
like "Running" in the mode-line, then we should show it only when 
it lasts for more than, let's say, 0.5s.  This would prevent the 
mode-line from moving to right for just a fraction of a second 
when running fast commands like cd or ls.

> ... in any case, maybe the simplest way forward here is to put 
> the
> (non-zero) exit status in the prompt like your original patch, 
> and
> then separately, I can try to improve the customizability of the
> prompt, as well as thinking about what to do with the mode-line.

I have updated the patch.