Patch to change the default binding of C-a to eshell-bol. I don't think it's

actually bound at all by default in eshell; it just falls back to the default
binding of C-a.

diff --git a/lisp/eshell/esh-mode.el b/lisp/eshell/esh-mode.el
index 675818539cf5df14d306810e97ad96d41197b8b7..db876d49bf845591c9d87b83fd8a3b0acd665653 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/eshell/esh-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/eshell/esh-mode.el
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ This is used by `eshell-watch-for-password-prompt'."
   (define-key eshell-mode-map [(meta return)] 'eshell-queue-input)
   (define-key eshell-mode-map [(meta control ?m)] 'eshell-queue-input)
   (define-key eshell-mode-map [(meta control ?l)] 'eshell-show-output)
+  (define-key eshell-mode-map [(control ?a)] 'eshell-bol)
 
   (set (make-local-variable 'eshell-command-prefix)
        (make-symbol "eshell-command-prefix"))