Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Hadron wrote:
>> What is the best regexp to match my eshell prompt which is of the form
>>
>> ~/d1/d1 $
>>
>> which I assume is an eshell default since my normal bash shell is different?
>>
> 
> First, are you aware that you can get a bash shell with M-x shell ?
> 
> I'll try to look into how you could get the behavior you're asking about
> in eshell.
> 
> Matt Flaschen

I figured out the reason it works in shell but not eshell is that shell
is based a framework called comint, which defines a "field" for the
prompt.  Beginning of line will stop there.  However, eshell makes no
field.  I tried to make it do so, but couldn't figure it out (I'm new to
elisp).

Matthew Flaschen