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M-b not navigating to the previous word in the prompt string inside Eshell on emacs 30.1

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Hrishikesh S <hrish2006 <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 76853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76853: M-b not navigating to the previous word in the prompt string inside Eshell on emacs 30.1
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:47:01 -0700

On 3/13/2025 8:32 PM, Hrishikesh S wrote:
> This worked:
> (add-hook 'eshell-mode-hook (lambda () (setq-local 
> inhibit-field-text-motion t)))
> 
> but then I lose the completions I get when I type a command like `cd <tab>`
> It would be nice if I could get back the behavior I was used to in emacs 
> 29.
> Currently, I'm managing by first hitting `C-b` followed by `M-b`.

That's unfortunate. I'm open to implementation options here. Stefan (or 
anyone else who wants to chime in), do you think it would make sense to 
say, "Users should be able to set 'inhibit-field-text-motion' to t in 
Eshell," and that any problems with that are bugs to be fixed?

Or maybe we should handle this bug report in a different way?

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