> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 23:32:43 +0000 > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <[email protected]> > > > You define paragraphs as emptyline-separated blocks on which you > > perform autodetection of the paragraph direction. This is great! As > > I've mentioned, I'd love to have such a mode in terminals, but it's > > subject to underlying improvements, like knowing when a prompt starts > > and ends, because prompts also have to be paragraph delimiters. > > Not necessarily. One could allow the first strong character in the > prompt to determine the paragraph directions. That's what the Emacs > terminal (invoked by M-x term; top level definition in term.el) does.
Emacs's built-in terminal emulator does that only because no one bothered to do something about this behavior. I personally don't consider this the correct behavior (but then I don't use M-x term in Emacs except for testing). Emacs does know where the prompt is, so it could implement the rule that whatever follows the prompt starts a new paragraph.
