Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> In what version of Emacs do you see this?  (You didn't include in your
> report the information collected by "M-x report-emacs-bug", so I
> cannot know what version and on what OS are you using.)  I cannot
> reproduce this in Emacs 29: "C-h m" after "M-x shell" shows
> shell-dirtrack-mode only in the *shell* buffer.  I do see it in
> *scratch* in Emacs 28, so I guess we already fixed this?

You are right about the steps to reproduce. What changed in Emacs 29
was describe-mode no longer using minor-mode-list, but
(buffer-local-value 'local-minor-modes buffer) instead.

This changed in commit 3c059f269e0182bd19df37871585e0b0bf1d47e5
Redo `C-h m' output
Wed Apr 13 03:50:06 2022 +0200

This only hides the problem, which is: the default value of
shell-dirtrack-mode being t.

Revised steps to reproduce:

1. emacs -q
2. M-x shell
3. M-: shell-dirtrack-mode in *scratch* or *GNU Emacs*

This is also demonstrated in the test
shell-dirtrack-should-not-be-on-in-unrelated-modes
from the first patch, which fails without the fix being applied.

Attached is a revised patch for the fix, with the obsolete variable
version filled in, and updated commit message.

Thank you for looking at this.

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Vladimir Sedach