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From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Subject: Re: shell mode, changing directory
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:23:02 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87isuck2tu.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vfisuftjg3.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk

Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> 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. 

Send "cd blah" to the process... that's the only way.  You can't
change a process's working directory from outside.

comint-send-string might help.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - I am the rocks.
Looking for a developer in St. Louis? http://web.springies.com/~ats/
Hey! You knuckleheads! - Gypsy to Mads

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-21 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-19 16:22 shell mode, changing directory Phillip Lord
2003-03-21 16:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-03-21 17:56   ` Phillip Lord
2003-03-21 18:11     ` Barry Margolin
2003-03-21 21:15     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-03-24 12:40       ` Phillip Lord
2003-03-21 18:23 ` Alan Shutko [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-21 18:40 Bingham, Jay
     [not found] <mailman.3489.1048272184.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-03-21 19:53 ` Alan Shutko
2003-03-22  9:42 ` Piet van Oostrum
2003-03-24 16:21   ` Phillip Lord

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