bug#27405: 25.2; Make eshell-next-prompt more reliable

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Current definition of `eshell-next-prompt' merely skips a
paragraph. This won't produce the right result as soon the output
contains a paragraph separator (typically an empty line).

I have been using the following redefinition for a while and it works much
better for me:

        (defun eshell-next-prompt (n)
          "Move to end of Nth next prompt in the buffer.
        See `eshell-prompt-regexp'."
          (interactive "p")
          (re-search-forward eshell-prompt-regexp nil t n)
          (when eshell-highlight-prompt
            (while (not (get-text-property (line-beginning-position) 
'read-only) )
              (re-search-forward eshell-prompt-regexp nil t n)))
          (eshell-skip-prompt))

        (defun eshell-previous-prompt (n)
          "Move to end of Nth previous prompt in the buffer.
        See `eshell-prompt-regexp'."
          (interactive "p")
          (backward-char)
          (eshell-next-prompt (- n))))

Quite naturally, I search for the `eshell-prompt-regexp'. If that prompt
is too simple (say "^\$ "), some output could easily match the regexp
and the function would move the point there instead of its right
location. To work around that case, I check if the text is read-only,
which is a property of the prompt (if `eshell-highlight-prompt' is `t')
but not of the output.

What do you think? Would you accept a patch?


In GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.10)
 of 2017-04-22 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11903000
System Description:     Arch Linux