From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sincronise eshell directory to file Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:57:49 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1226588338.984097@arno.fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226590860 23036 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2008 15:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:41:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 13 16:42:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0eKS-00044u-8S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:41:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0eJK-0005lZ-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:40:46 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!peernews!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1226588374 12637 143.93.54.11 (13 Nov 2008 14:59:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:59:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-195-108.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164405 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59738 Archived-At: Lorenzo Isella wrote: > Dear All, > My typical working pattern in emacs is to have an eshell + a buffer > (showing one of the program I intend to modify). > I switch between several of these code buffers and it would be very > useful for me to automatically change directory (within eshell) to the > one corresponding to the file I am visiting though the buffer. > Does anyone know how this can be achieved? > Cheers > > Lorenzo > > Here is a basic solution which uses `window-configuration-change-hook'. What's left is getting eshell to play along, change the prompt and handle partial input for example. (defun eshell-follow-dir-hook nil (when (not (eq major-mode 'eshell-mode)) (let ((pwd default-directory)) (walk-windows #'(lambda (win) (with-selected-window win (when (and (eq major-mode 'eshell-mode) (not (equal pwd default-directory))) (cd pwd)))) 'no-minibuffer)))) (add-hook 'window-configuration-change-hook 'eshell-follow-dir-hook) -ap