From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs current directory when shell commands change Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:36:53 +0200 Message-ID: <864pn6knqi.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177415131 31117 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 11:45:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:45:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 13:45:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HgJSU-00007d-5J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:45:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgJXz-0000AK-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgJXm-00009x-6c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgJXj-00006e-Ug for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgJXj-00006W-S4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgJSD-0008Qr-Vu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HgJSA-0003iS-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net ([62.191.185.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:45:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w/uP1yalqIQrYkpugKsD5oPBjk0= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43072 Archived-At: "David Strozzi" writes: > The functionality I want is having a bunch of 5 or 6 char aliases that > take me to some god-forsaken dirs buried in the filesystem, and I want > emacs to know where I'm going. How do I do this? I set environment variables and type "cd $foo". Perhaps you could change your aliases to do "cd /some/where; pwd"? Would that work? There are also extensions to shell-mode that perform directory tracking. Perhaps if you google "Emacs shell mode directory tracking dirtrack", you can find something. Kai