unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* How to change the default-directory when using aliases in shell-mode
@ 2021-06-23  3:38 Rodrigo Morales
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Rodrigo Morales @ 2021-06-23  3:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs


I'm using ZSH and I've defined the following alias in my configuration
file (i.e. =.zshrc=)

#+BEGIN_SRC zsh
alias d="cd ~/Downloads"
#+END_SRC

The problem is that when I use that alias in buffers whose major mode is
shell-mode, the value of default-directory is not changed. For this
reason, I'm wondering how to make the default-directory be the same as
the shell current working directory when an alias has been used.

I think this would be solved if I stopped using aliases, but then I
would need a way for switching between directories easily in shell-mode
buffers. I'm mentioning this in order to avoid the XY problem. My goal
here is to visit commonly visited directories on the fly while being in
shell-mode buffers.

Greetings,
Rodrigo Morales

---
rdrg109 on Libera Chat



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] only message in thread

only message in thread, other threads:[~2021-06-23  3:38 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2021-06-23  3:38 How to change the default-directory when using aliases in shell-mode Rodrigo Morales

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).