How to prevent backspace from deleting my shell prompt?

Question

It is a usual shell display:

ME@mycomputer: ~$ echo

When I do backspace several times It becomes:

ME@mycompu

How to prevent the system word from deleting

Not an answer, but `eshell` doesn't have this problem. – JeanPierre Apr 21 '16 at 12:34 — JeanPierre, Apr 21 '16 at 12:34

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '16 at 15:17

16

I think you're looking for comint-prompt-read-only. E.g.

(setq comint-prompt-read-only t)

should take care of it.

answered Apr 21 '16 at 15:17

Stefan

I don't know if this is a different question, but is it possible to prevent comint from deleting previous output? At the moment I could just move up with my cursor and delete stuff. – itmuckel Jul 12 '19 at 07:21

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