From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell mode, changing directory Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:15:30 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E7B80F2.8000400@ihs.com> References: <3E7B3B46.1090204@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048281735 29063 80.91.224.249 (21 Mar 2003 21:22:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:22:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 22:22:12 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wTxr-0007Xw-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:22:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wTwR-00038l-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:20:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1048281319 75231854 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111303 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7802 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7802 Phillip Lord wrote: >>>>>>"Kevin" == Kevin Rodgers writes: >>>>>> > > Kevin> Phillip Lord wrote: > > >> Can anyone tell me how to force a *shell* buffer to change it's > >> current working directory? Effectively I want to fake typing "cd > >> blah", but I can't see a good way to do this. > > Kevin> M-x cd RET blah RET > > > This appears to change the default directory of the buffer, not the > current working directory of the shell, which is not really what I > want. Sorry, that's just what you asked for. > Both need to happen. Then do what comint-send-input (which is what RET is bound to in the *shell* buffer) does: (funcall comint-input-sender (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)) (format "cd %s" DIRECTORY)) -- Kevin Rodgers