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Re: address@hidden: C-k must be repeated in shell to kill a line that ha


From: Karl Fogel
Subject: Re: address@hidden: C-k must be repeated in shell to kill a line that has a prompt]
Date: 02 Nov 2001 00:29:42 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.50

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> I think we should be more precise about what's being suggested.
> 
> `beginning-of-line' and `end-of-line' should continue to obey fields
> when invoked within an input field (though this only matters for
> `beginning-of-line', since input fields always end at the end of a line
> in comint anyway).  To suggest that they should simply ignore fields
> entirely is quite clearly wrong.

Thanks for the clarification; yes, I misunderstood the question.

> The question is -- what should they do when invoked within an _output_
> field (and more specifically, within the prompt, which is an output field).
> 
> Currently `end-of-line' (and consequently `kill-line'), when invoked
> inside a prompt, stops at the end of the prompt, not a the end of the
> line, and this can be confusing.  Changing things so that `end-of-line'
> only stops when it hits the end of a `real' field (e.g., the comint
> input field) seems to be a reasonable fix for this problem.

Yes.

-K



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