Re: FW: shell: cd after &

[Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@gnu.org>]

One of the issues that I have always found to be clunky with the existing
cwd tracking in shell is its inability to track the pwd after every command,
not just explicit directory commands.

For instance, I use a program called `workon' extensively to work with
different cvs modules. The program sets the pertinent environment variables
and exec a shell and puts the user in the root of the cvs module.

When I use this within emacs, I typically do something like

% workon emacs
% cd `pwd`

for emacs to understand the current directory.

Of course, I don't have any suggestions on how this can be solved.
Anyway, I guess the current change in question is a step in the right
direction. 

In a previous message, "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes:

> >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marshall <Marshall> writes:
> 
>     Simon> I don't know if anyone cares enough about this.  It's so
>     Simon> long since I maintained shell.el I don't know if it's worth
>     Simon> it.
> 
> FWIW Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> approved it for XEmacs.  So, if
> you want rationale, you could ask him.