Re: C-p on second line in shell-mode moves to beginning of buffer

[Richard M. Stallman]

    In shell-mode, when point is on the second line (no matter which
    column), C-p (`previous-line') moves point to the beginning of the
    buffer.  How comes that?

Does this patch give good results?

*** simple.el   16 Oct 2005 10:41:23 -0400      1.755
--- simple.el   17 Oct 2005 00:17:41 -0400      
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*** 3541,3550 ****
             ;; Compute the end of the line
             ;; ignoring effectively invisible newlines.
             (save-excursion
!              (end-of-line)
               (while (and (not (eobp)) (line-move-invisible-p (point)))
                 (goto-char (next-char-property-change (point)))
!                (end-of-line))
               (point))))
  
        ;; Move to the desired column.
--- 3541,3551 ----
             ;; Compute the end of the line
             ;; ignoring effectively invisible newlines.
             (save-excursion
!              ;; Like end-of-line but ignores fields.
!              (skip-chars-forward "^\n")
               (while (and (not (eobp)) (line-move-invisible-p (point)))
                 (goto-char (next-char-property-change (point)))
!                (skip-chars-forward "^\n"))
               (point))))
  
        ;; Move to the desired column.