Re: org-babel-execute-src-block filters characters from :session *shell* output

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@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.

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