Here's the situation. I start M-x ansi-term, which launches it in term-char-mode. I type the following:
echo "hello world"
and press RET, which outputs on the next line the expected output hello world. Now I press C-p which brings up the previous statement that I just typed (echo "hello world" in this example) and I place the cursor with repeated C-b just before the word world (in other words before w). Now I do M-x term-line-mode and I do some edits to the command. Weird stuff happens at this point. Sometimes the edits are not registered after I go back to M-x term-char-mode and execute the edited command, sometimes the text jumbles, etc. A screencast shows these possibilities: https://i.stack.imgur.com/wVGxk.jpg.
Here is my setup in ~/.emacs.d/init.el related to ansi-term:
;;;;;; Improving ansi-term
;; make that C-c t e launches an ansi-term buffer in the current window
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c t e") 'ansi-term)
;; avoid ansi-term asking always which shell to run (always run bash)
(defvar my-term-shell "/bin/bash")
(defadvice ansi-term (before force-bash)
(interactive (list my-term-shell)))
(ad-activate 'ansi-term)
;; display of certain characters and control codes to UTF-8
(defun my-term-use-utf8 ()
(set-buffer-process-coding-system 'utf-8-unix 'utf-8-unix))
(add-hook 'term-exec-hook 'my-term-use-utf8)
;; clickable URLs
(defun my-term-hook ()
(goto-address-mode))
(add-hook 'term-mode-hook 'my-term-hook)
;; make that typing exit in ansi-term (which exits the shell) also
;; closes the buffer
(defadvice term-sentinel (around my-advice-term-sentinel (proc msg))
(if (memq (process-status proc) '(signal exit))
(let ((buffer (process-buffer proc)))
ad-do-it
(kill-buffer buffer))
ad-do-it))
(ad-activate 'term-sentinel)
;; fix the problem of moving cursor left/right being captured by emacs
;; instead of underlying terminal, leading to jumbling when jumping
;; words then editing the middle of a command. Same for deleting
;; backward/forward whole words.
(eval-after-load "term"
'(progn
;; rename buffer
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-c r") 'rename-buffer)
;; make sure typical key combos work in term-char-mode
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "M-x") 'nil)
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "M-&") 'nil)
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "M-!") 'nil)
;; make sure C-c t e launches a new ansi-term buffer when current
;; buffer is also ansi-term
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-c t e") 'nil)
;; move by whole words fix
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-<right>") 'term-send-Cright)
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-<left>") 'term-send-Cleft)
(defun term-send-Cright () (interactive) (term-send-raw-string "\e[1;5C"))
(defun term-send-Cleft () (interactive) (term-send-raw-string "\e[1;5D"))
(defun term-send-Mbackspace () (interactive)(term-send-raw-string "\e\d"))
;; word deletion fix
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-w") 'term-send-Mbackspace)
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "M-<backspace>") 'term-send-Mbackspace)
;; switch between char and line mode with logical keystrokes
(add-hook 'term-mode-hook (lambda () (local-set-key (kbd "C-c t c") 'term-char-mode)))
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-c t l") 'term-line-mode)
;; copy/paste native Emacs keystrokes
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-k") 'term-send-raw)
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-y") 'term-paste)
;; ensure that scrolling doesn't break on output
;;(setq term-scroll-show-maximum-output t)
(setq term-scroll-to-bottom-on-output t)
;; max history (# lines) to keep (0 == keep everything)
(setq term-buffer-maximum-size 50000)))
;; ansi-term bi-directional text support problem fix, which seems to
;; be the cause of text jumbling when going back commands in
;; ansi-term. This fixes it, yay!
(add-hook 'term-mode-hook 'my-term-mode-hook)
(defun my-term-mode-hook ()
;; https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20611
(setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right))
Please help me to resolve this issue.
