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Re: How to get a read-only prompt in emacs shell
From: |
Marco Baringer |
Subject: |
Re: How to get a read-only prompt in emacs shell |
Date: |
14 Jun 2002 09:32:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.30 |
vnsingh <vnsingh@micron.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I extensively invoke a Unix shell within emacs to execute any Unix commands
> or run a script.
> But I notice when I press backspace the prompt also gets edited or if enter
> C-a which I expect
> to get to beginning of cmd, it goes to beginning of prompt.
> Is there any way emacs can know the prompt is read-only and that it is a
> prompt.
> That is, can it behave like a shell where the prompt is a prompt and not
> just some text.
>
eshell.
on emacs 21 M-x eshell, on earlier emacsen you'll have to get the
elisp files from somewhere.
--
-Marco
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