Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/Per_Bothner/specifications/blob/master/proposals/semantic-prompts.md > > I am looking at this gitlab link, and they way it is implemented is > simply setting PROMPT in a way that adds these escape sequences to the > original PROMPT value. > > In other words, it is a bit more advanced version of our approach with > setting prompt to a unique string - they surround the prompt with unique > chars instead. > > In theory, we can do the same thing, adding some kind of invisible > unicode character around the prompt. We may even do it in the existing > prompts. Although one downside will be that the unicode character we add > may be carried along if the user copies the comint buffer contents.
Upon looking closer, it won't fly in general. In particular, multi-line prompts will be a disaster - comint cannot handle them well no matter what we add there. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
