Re: emacs shell cursor movement is broken in 22.1

[jimka]

> I have no idea why that change was made or whether there was a good
> reason for it, but is there a reason why you use !!:p rather than M-p
> to get the previous command? The latter puts the command at the
> prompt, where commands are expected to be input.

the !!:p example is just a simple example that is easy to explain
in the posting. There is nothing really special about !!:p.

Another example would be if i want to find the last command that
contained a certain word.
If i want to see the history, i type "history",  If i want to see all
the history
which contained /tmp, i use "history | grep /tmp", and i expect emacs
to be
able to edit that result with its normal full screen editing.  During
that
editing C-e and C-a should work as they do in any other full screen
editing mode.


About M-p, I think the reason people want the M-p and arrow keys to
display
history, is because shells don't normally enable full screen editing.
One reason i started using the emacs shell in the 80s was because it
did just that.
I don't see M-p and C-up-arrow as very useful substitutes for full-
screen
capability.  (i admit that i'm in the minority. most people do not
want a powerful
shell editing facility, but instead a very klunky one.)