Re: emacs shell cursor movement is broken in 22.1

[jimka <jimka@rdrop.com>]

On Mar 16, 4:49 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:

>
> Why do you useshellmechanisms? GNU Emacs has more efficient ways to
> retrieve an elderlyshellcommand ... (comint-previous-matching-input
> or M-r for example)
>
>
>    Pete
>



yes it is always the case with emacs that there is a more
efficient way in terms of fewer keystokes.  but i think the
question of how to most efficiently do a job-X in emacs
is an independent question from why did the full-screen-editing
features of the emacs shell regress.  Don't you agree?

By the way i do often use C-r to find the previous comand which
matches some pattern and either press enter twice to
execute it again, or press enter to leave the search mode,
then edit the command and enter it again.  C-r has a great advantage
over M-r because it lets me see the context in which something
happened
and also lets me match things that were not shell commands
at all but might look like shell commands.

-jim