How to prevent backspace from deleting my shell prompt?

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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, 2016 at 12:34 — JeanPierre, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:34

Stefan · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-21 15:17:44Z

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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, 2016 at 15:17

Stefan

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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, 2019 at 7:21

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