Re: comint-insert-input on non-command lines: A trivial fix, a quibble, and a bug

[Miles Bader]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> I was talking about people who wanted to use `C-c RET' to insert old
> output at the current prompt.  Given the current code, people who want
> that have to set comint-use-prompt-regexp non-nil and hence can not
> use fields.  That is what seems weird to me.

Yes.  I think that by and large the user-visible behavior should be the
same regardless of what value `comint-use-prompt-regexp' has -- other
than the obvious consequences of using or not using fields of course
(e.g., the behavior of C-a).

I find comint-insert-input a confusing command, as its behavior is so
context dependent.

The current behavior of `C-c C-m' on an output field (when
comint-use-prompt-regexp is nil) seems not very useful to me; in a shell
buffer, for instance, it just does nothing.

For the keybinding case, at least, a simple behavior like "always insert
the current field (whether input or output) or line (when
comint-use-prompt-regexp is non-nil)" would seem a lot cleaner, easier to
explain, and more useful.

For the mouse-binding, in a shell buffer for instance, I think the same
simple behavior would also be better; perhaps for some modes, alternative
handling of output fields is better -- but maybe a cleaner way to handle
that would be to just bind other command to mouse-2?

-Miles
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