If you're using a shell that can support the following ansi osc 7 escape
sequence excerpt I took from my bashrc, just disable dirtrack via
(shell-dirtrack-mode -1).

function myprompt () {
  printf "\e]7;file://%s%s\e\\" "$HOSTNAME" "$PWD"
}

# Do these only if we're in an interactive shell
case $- in
*i*)
# ...snip...
  export PROMPT_COMMAND=myprompt

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 1:56 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Colton Goates <coltongoates@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:27:00 -0700
> > Cc: 74524@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Coltons-MacBook-Pro:/Users/coltongoates/software-dev/$ isn't intended to
> be a directory name, it's a string
> > that's intended to look exactly like my prompt. (I know it's pretty
> contrived.)
> >
> > So, if someone prints something that resembles their prompt, dirtrack
> will change the directory, because
> > dirtrack thinks it just saw the shell prompt appear, but it really just
> saw a string that resembles the prompt.
> > Does that make more sense now?
>
> What do you expect dirtrack to do when you deliberately try to deceive
> it?  AFAIU, dirtrack is a piece of heuristic ad-hocery (as explained
> in its commentary), so it cannot be expected to survive such
> deception.  What kind of changes would you suggest to consider to
> handle the cases such as this one?
>
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