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From: jimka <jimka@rdrop.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: emacs shell cursor movement is broken in 22.1
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:44:16 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c0dda17-2476-4d2b-b1f2-c101b4a0f576@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (raw)

I've used the emacs shell for 20 years and emacs 22.1 has added a
bunch
of "features" which make like difficult.

Can someone explain to me how to make the cursor navigation functions
work in a more sane way.

E.g.,

1) if i use the shell command !!:p to print the previous shell
command.
In previous versions of emacs i could simply edit that line and press
return and
it would enter it as the next input to the shell.  Now, emacs 22.1
ignores it
when i press enter on such a line.

2) if i use !!:p to print the shell command such as "ls -R
xyzzy*.x.y.*"
then move the curser up to the line and insert something at the
beginning of the line
like cd /xyzzy; so that the new line content is "cd /xyzzy;ls -R
xyzzy*.x.y.*"

 At that point if i press C-E to go to the end of the line and C-A to
go to
the beginning of the line, the cursor stops at the ls -l, and does not
move back to the REAL
beginning of the line.   I've checked and C-A is still bound to move-
beginning-of-line
and i looked at the elisp code for move-beginning-of-line and cannot
figure out
why it is not really going to the beginning, and how to influence it
to do sl.

3) similarly on the above line "cd /xyzzy;ls -R xyzzy*.x.y.*" pressing
C-K
only cuts the part from cd /xyzzy;.  ie. it does not cut to the end of
the line
like it did for the past 20 years. kill-line seems to still be bound
to kill-line
and in every other mode kill-line really kills the rest of the line.

Can someone please give me some clues about what is going wrong?
Maybe it is some minor mode i need to disable???

many thanks
-jim


             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-13 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-13 20:44 jimka [this message]
2008-03-15  2:41 ` emacs shell cursor movement is broken in 22.1 wainstead
2008-03-15 15:01   ` jimka
2008-03-26 20:43     ` wainstead
2008-03-26 20:45       ` wainstead
2008-03-16  0:42 ` Jason Rumney
2008-03-16 15:31   ` jimka
2008-03-16 15:49     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.8981.1205682606.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-16 16:03       ` jimka
2008-03-16 16:59     ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <mailman.8984.1205686774.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-16 17:51       ` jimka
2008-03-16 19:16         ` Drew Adams

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