Re: [Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE: popd in tcsh fails]

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Dhruva Krishnamurthy (RBIN/EDI3) *" <Dhruva.Krishnamurthy@in.bosch.com> writes:

> 	I do not know what exactly needs to be tested. However, I did
> the following.
>
> 1. Usng CVS Emacs on SOLARIS
> 2. tcsh 6.11.00 Version
> 3. I enabled the customized variables. Not the minor-modes and other
> locale info (I do not know how to set those stuff)
> 4. Set "tcsh" as default shell
>
> Case 1:
> 1. Invoked "shell" and got into "tcsh" shell in Emacs
> 2. Changed into some folder
> 3. Did a "pushd ."
> 4. Changed to some other folder
> 5. Did a "popd"
> 6. I got back to the folder what I had done a "pushd". This is as
> expected
>
> Case 2:
> 1. Invoked "shell" and got into "tcsh" shell in Emacs
> 2. Changed into some folder ex: /home/blah/bin
> 3. Did a "pushd /home/blah/stub/src/"
> 4. The PWD is "/home/blah/stub/src/"
> 4. Changed to some other folder
> 5. Did a "popd"
> 6. I go to "/home/blah/bin"
> 7. The same happens in a tcsh in console window and also BASH shell.
>
> What am I missing in my testing?

Whether Emacs' idea of the current directory agrees with that of the
shell.  This is important, for example, for path completion.  You can
check by using C-x C-f and see whether Emacs offers the now current
directory as the default.

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