bug#11883: 24.1.50; shell-mode doesn't colorize the prompt

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> The behavior you see is due to the following:
> - the prompt is highlighted with an overlay that uses
>   a comint-highlight-prompt face.
> - "the prompt" is determined dynamically as "the last
>   non-line-terminated output of the process".
> - the ansi-color escapes used to be applied using overlays but are now
>   applied using text-properties.
>
> When you use ansi escapes to color the prompt, you clearly have
> a conflict with the comint-highlight-prompt face that is to be used for
> the prompt.

The following simple tweak seems to fix the reported issue:

diff --git a/lisp/comint.el b/lisp/comint.el
index 9e406614b9..3dfb269de4 100644
--- a/lisp/comint.el
+++ b/lisp/comint.el
@@ -2157,9 +2157,9 @@ comint-output-filter
                 'comint-highlight-prompt))
              (setq comint-last-prompt
                    (cons (copy-marker prompt-start) (point-marker)))
-             (font-lock-prepend-text-property prompt-start (point)
-                                              'font-lock-face
-                                              'comint-highlight-prompt)
+             (font-lock-append-text-property prompt-start (point)
+                                             'font-lock-face
+                                             'comint-highlight-prompt)
              (add-text-properties prompt-start (point)
                                   `(rear-nonsticky
                                     ,comint--prompt-rear-nonsticky)))

That is, we don't overwrite the ANSI face properties.

I guess this might also avoid overwriting properties in prompts that use
ANSI codes?  Which might also be nice.

Would this regress anything?  Anybody got an opinion?

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