As much as I love Emacs, that sounds like it's a bug to assume that one's prompt will follow a convention (ends-in-$). The convention is useful and good, but i

As much as I love Emacs, that sounds like it's a bug to assume that one's prompt will follow a convention (ends-in-$). The convention is useful and good, but it seems strange to blame someone for breaking your tool's expectations when they had made a valid prompt.