From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>
Cc: 66903@debbugs.gnu.org, darkfeline@felesatra.moe
Subject: bug#66903: 29.1; shell-mode directory tracking incorrectly handles double slashes
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:24:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bkca7w45.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m11qd79fq5.fsf@dazzs-mbp.home> (message from Eshel Yaron on Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:35:46 +0100)
> From: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>
> Cc: darkfeline@felesatra.moe, 66903@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:35:46 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> I just wanted to note that this is not really an option with M-x shell,
> >> because it is the shell, and not Emacs, that interprets "cd" and changes
> >> directory.
> >
> > You assume that shell.el must send everything the user types verbatim
> > to the shell?
>
> No, not "must" and not "everything", but if you think about it
> intercepting "cd" and altering its argument would make `M-x shell`
> incompatible with other shell interfaces, breaking valid command lines
> in weird ways. Does that make sense?
It does to me. To understand why, start Emacs in your HOME directory,
and then type this:
M-x cd RET ~//bin RET
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-03 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-03 0:14 bug#66903: 29.1; shell-mode directory tracking incorrectly handles double slashes Allen Li
2023-11-03 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-03 7:22 ` Allen Li
2023-11-03 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-03 8:35 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-03 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-03 12:35 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-03 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-04 0:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-04 2:53 ` Visuwesh
2023-11-03 10:43 ` Allen Li
2023-11-03 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-03 20:54 ` Allen Li
2023-11-04 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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