GNU bug report logs - #9555
Improved method for shell directory tracking

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Improved method for shell directory tracking
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:15:18 -0400

Package: emacs
Severity: wishlist

An Emacs shell buffer needs to know the shell's PWD so that eg
completion can work correctly. The default shell-directory-tracker
watches for standard commands like cd, pushd, popd. It fails to handle
non-standard commands for changing directories; eg ".." as an
alias/function meaning "cd ../", etc.

dirtrack.el provides an alternative, but requires the full PWD to appear
in the prompt.

Is it possible to come up with a third way that is better than these?


Ref eg bug #1438, #4596, etc.

Message #6 received at 9555 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: bug#9555 <9555 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: 17656 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17656: 24.3; default-directory with aliases in shell-mode
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 15:05:59 +0200

> Is it possible to come up with a third way that is better than these?

Emacs 29 has this via `comint-osc-directory-tracker', which is on by
default.  I think that's probably as good as it's going to get, so I'm
therefore closing this bug report.

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