Re: always local shell?

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Thibaut Verron wrote:

> Isn't that essentially the same thing as
>
> (with-current-buffer "*Messages*"
>    (shell))
>
> ?

One can use `messages-buffer' if one don't want to hard-code
"*Messages*".

Only, that is hard-coded in messages-buffer! 3 times in
total 7 lines of code.
In /usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/simple.el.gz
lines 9804-9810.

Also, go to a remote file. Kill the messages buffer and do

  (messages-buffer)

Go to *Messages* and then C-h v default-directory RET - you'll
see it is remote as well.

Don't know how often people kill the messages buffer tho ...

> I think something like
>
> (let (default-directory user-emacs-directory)
>   (shell))
>
> should also work.

Not only does that not work but it also breaks shell so you
can't use it any other way either :)

But yes, this works:

(let ((default-directory user-emacs-directory))
  (shell) )

Maybe that's the best one?

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