Re: emacs shell cursor movement is broken in 22.1

[Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>]

On 13 Mar, 20:44, jimka <ji...@rdrop.com> wrote:

> 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.

I have no idea why that change was made or whether there was a good
reason for it, but is there a reason why you use !!:p rather than M-p
to get the previous command? The latter puts the command at the
prompt, where commands are expected to be input.