Re: Distinguishing between interactive and asynchronous shell buffers

[Stefan Monnier]

> Digging into simple.el, the only difference I could find between
> asynchronous and interactive shell buffers is that the former have
> process sentinels associated with them when they're running; after they
> finish, they of course have no process at all.  That led me to write:

Indeed, there are very few differences between them.  Another way to
distinguish them is to look at the buffer's history: if you never type
in async-shell-command buffers, then the input history should be empty
in those buffers.  E.g. maybe checking (eq (point-min)
comint-last-input-start) will do the trick.
Another way is to check (string-match "Async" (buffer-name)).


        Stefan