RE: org-babel-execute-src-block filters characters from :session *shell* output

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

"Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org> writes:

> Since my (bash) shell prompt is a (more or less) constant string (e.g. "myname@myhost> ").
>
> So, my workaround is to:
>
>     (setq comint-prompt-regexp "myname@myhost> ")
>
> Then the filtering works perfectly.
>
> Of course if I change my name, this will fail.  Or, more likely, connect to a different host within the shell.
>
> Or if I change PS1 😉
>
> It would be useful to automate this a little.

There is internal buffer-local variable called
`org-babel-comint-prompt-regexp-old'. If you set it to the default
`comint-prompt-regexp', Org will attempt to use it if no prompt is
detected for longer than `org-babel-comint-fallback-regexp-threshold'
seconds.

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