Subject: bug#76853: M-b not navigating to the previous word in the prompt string inside Eshell on emacs 30.1

From: Jim Porter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:02:13 -0700

On 3/15/2025 7:07 AM, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> The `inhibit-*` variables are generally not considered configuration
> variables, so we should look for other ways to provide the
> desired behavior.
> 
> E.g. provide navigation commands which don't pay attention to field
> boundaries, so Hrishi can bind this to `M-b`?
> Or provide a config var which works a bit like
> `inhibit-field-text-motion` but affects only the specific commands which
> pay attention to it (and only when called interactively)?

Thanks, this is in line with what I was thinking, but was hesitant to 
propose. I'll see about a patch along these lines.