I see.. Thanks for the response! I will try setting `'inhibit-field-text-motion` and test.

I'm used to using `M-b` a lot when I'm inside eshell as it lets me copy parts of my current directory when running commands

(e.g: copy the git branch I'm on before pushing, etc), so found the change to be a bit jarring. As long as there is a way

to get back the old behavior, I have no complaints :)

Regards,

Hrishi

On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/8/2025 12:21 AM, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Hrishikesh S <hrish2006@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> which I installed by simply running "brew install emacs" on my work machine,
>> when I'm inside the eshell buffer, typing `M-b` does not take me back by a
>> word like how it used to be.
[snip]
>
> Jim, any comments?

Like 'shell' has for a long time, Eshell now uses fields when
propertizing the prompt, and '(for|back)ward-word' don't move across
field boundaries by default. So this is the intended default behavior.

You could try setting 'inhibit-field-text-motion' to nil buffer-locally,
though maybe that's a drastic change. Is there a better way to do that?
(Or if not, should there be?)