From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: M-x shell question Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:45:15 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471455930 6321 195.159.176.226 (17 Aug 2016 17:45:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:45:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 19:45:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ba4u6-0001Mq-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:45:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ba4u3-0004kZ-6O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ba4tw-0004kT-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ba4tw-0005B5-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ba4tv-0005Az-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ba4tv-0007Ut-DQ; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:45:15 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206635 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I'm thinking that M-x shell should cd the subshell to the current directory of the buffer you're in when you type M-x shell. I often want to do that. Or perhaps C-u M-x shell should do that. The current behavior of C-u M-x shell, to use a different buffer name for the shell buffer, is not very useful; if you want to make multiple shell buffers, the easiest way is to make each one as *shell* and rename it. Is anyone against? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.