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30.0.50; eshell-previous-prompt doesn't work for multiline prompts

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From: Tony Zorman <soliditsallgood <at> mailbox.org>
To: 63748 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63748: 30.0.50; eshell-previous-prompt doesn't work for multiline prompts
Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 10:38:11 +0200

Hi,

in commit c257fd3a406d6aa83be60b96217e42b49b62cf5f, the way prompt
navigation in eshell is done was changed; it now works via a text
property search instead of searching for the prompt regexp. When
backwards searching with a prompt that spans multiple lines, however,
one doesn't get off the ground because the current prompt isn't properly
skipped.

More precisely: define a custom prompt

    (defun my/default-prompt-function ()
      (concat "┌─"
              (user-login-name) "@" (system-name)
              " " (abbreviate-file-name (eshell/pwd)) " \n"
              "└─"
              (if (zerop (user-uid)) "#" "$")
              " "))

and enable it by setting

    (setq eshell-prompt-function #'my/default-prompt-function)
    (setq eshell-prompt-regexp "└─[$#] ")  ; For good measure. 

This will result in the point not moving backwards to the last prompt on
C-c C-p (eshell-previous-prompt), but instead it gets "stuck" on the
very left of the line it is on. A solution to this (I think) is to
actually search for the beginning of the current prompt, instead of
using forward-line by itself. I.e., something like

    diff --git a/lisp/eshell/em-prompt.el b/lisp/eshell/em-prompt.el
    index 9f9e58e83d..b6c873b41d 100644
    --- a/lisp/eshell/em-prompt.el
    +++ b/lisp/eshell/em-prompt.el
    @@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ eshell-next-prompt
                       (text-property-search-forward 'field 'prompt t))
             (setq n (1- n)))
         (let (match this-match)
    -      (forward-line 0)           ; Don't count prompt on current line.
    +      ;; Don't count prompt on current line.
    +      (text-property-search-backward 'field 'prompt t)
           (while (and (< n 0)
                       (setq this-match (text-property-search-backward
                                         'field 'prompt t)))

This is a tiny change, so I suppose it can be applied immediately (if I
haven't overlooked anything, of course), or I can prepare a proper patch
(that perhaps adds a test for multiline prompts to the right place).

  Tony

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In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-musl, cairo version
 1.16.0) of 2023-05-17 built on pbox
Repository revision: 6cb963b73c3768958e13e96b2534d1e99239a3ff
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101008
System Description: Void Linux

Configured using:
 'configure --with-x --without-x-toolkit --without-toolkit-scroll-bars
 --without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings --with-modules
 --with-file-notification=inotify --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif
 --with-png --with-xpm --with-rsvg --without-imagemagick --with-cairo
 --with-gnutls --with-sound --with-json --with-harfbuzz --with-gpm
 --with-native-compilation --without-compress-install --with-xinput2
 --with-small-ja-dic --without-tree-sitter 'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe
 -march=native -mtune=native -fomit-frame-pointer''

Configured features:
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Important settings:
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  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: en_GB
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

-- 
Tony Zorman | https://tony-zorman.com/

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