James Nguyen <jamesn@fastmail.com> writes:

> This is in char-mode.
>
> It works in emacs 25.
>
> ——————————————————
> emacs-major-version ;; 25
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/james/.emacs.d/elpa/25/evil-20171129.651")
> (require 'evil)
> (evil-mode)
> M-x term
> "/bin/zsh"
> Press ESC to go into 'normal state'.
> Press k to move cursor above prompt. --> cursor moves above prompt
> ——————————————————
>
> ——————————————————
> emacs-major-version ;; 26
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/james/.emacs.d/elpa/26/evil-20171129.651")
> (require 'evil)
> (evil-mode)
> M-x term
> "/bin/zsh"
> Press ESC to go into 'normal state'.
> Press k to move cursor above prompt. --> cursor won't move outside of prompt
> ——————————————————

A similar recipe without evil:

M-x term
"/bin/bash" ;; I happen not to have zsh installed at the moment
Hit RET a few times so there is somewhere to move.
C-c M-x eval-expression RET (previous-line) RET
See cursort move up, and then move back to the prompt.

Seems to be on purpose, caused by this code, introduced in [1: 0d8e4f45d6]: