Subject: bug#27405: 25.2; Make eshell-next-prompt more reliable

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 09:52:13 -0400

Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]> writes:

>> > 	(defun eshell-previous-prompt (n)
>> > 	  "Move to end of Nth previous prompt in the buffer.
>> > 	See `eshell-prompt-regexp'."
>> > 	  (interactive "p")
>> > 	  (backward-char)
>> > 	  (eshell-next-prompt (- n))))
>>
>> What's the backward-char for?
>
> That would have definitely deserved a comment...
>
> Without it, if point is right after the prompt, it won't move. That would be
> disturbing for the user.

Hmm, maybe beginning-of-line would make more sense?  If I have point on
the same line of the prompt I can get to the beginning of the prompted
line with C-a, so C-c C-p probably means I want to go farther back.