Re: emacs current directory when shell commands change

["David Strozzi" <david.strozzi@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thanks to those who gave help with this.  I still haven't reached
Nirvana though.  I'd like to use 'regular' shell mode (M-x shell),
unless some other mode is preferred for doing serious bash shelling.
I put this in my .emacs:

(setq shell-cd-regexp "cd.*")

This should make the shell think anything starting with cd is a change
dir. command.  In my .bashrc I set an alias:

alias cder='cd ~/elvis/runs'

>From shell, cder indeed works (i.e., the shell thinks I'm in the new
dir).  However, emacs always thinks I've cd'ed to ~.  The same thing
happens if I write out the full path and don't use ~ in the alias def.

So it seems emacs is interpreting all these aliases as being
equivalent to a bare 'cd', which of course moved to ~.  Maybe I
mis-understood what shell-cd-regexp does....

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?

Thanks again,
Dave