Re: Problem with setting default-directory for shell buffer

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <2dc06caf-b00a-4863-aada-f63af3381916@googlegroups.com>,
 rodman@google.com wrote:

> Every N years I seem to need to flip between xemacs and emacs.
> 
> Now I'm back on emacs..love the nfs free setup and just
> doing 
> 
> require 'google
> 
> etc. Whoever-all made that happen, thanks a bunch!
> 
> My problem:
> 
> I use a python program to implement a set of 'directory marks'
> The program is really simple and it works in concert with this bash function:
> 
> 
> function ccd {
>     eval `~/git/py/cd_marks.py $1 $2 `;
>     emacsclient --eval "(cd \"`pwd`\")" >&/dev/null;
> }
> 
> 
> so I say stuff like
> 
> ccd foo
> 
> in a shell, and if I then do a find-file in that buffer the directory
> shows up properly. (i.e. the shell pwd is "tracked" whenever I use the ccd 
> command)
> 
> I have tried of ton of ideas but nothing works.

Each Emacs buffer has its own default directory. When emacsclient 
executes the --eval code, it's in a temporary buffer, not your shell 
buffer.

Maybe this will work: 

--eval "(progn (set-buffer \"*shell*\")(cd \"`pwd`\"))"

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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