Re: Go to my CWD!

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Andrea Crotti wrote:
> Whenever I have a shell or another interpreter of course they keep
> they're own current directory, which is given from the first time I've
> launched them.
> 
> But if I for example call
> M-x shell 
> again it means that I want the shell in the directory of the current
> buffer, not that old forgotten position.

`C-u M-x shell RET' will give you a new shell buffer named *shell*<2>
whose default directory is the same as the buffer from which you called
it.  Subsequent shells will be named *shell*<3>, *shell*<4>, *shell*<5>
etc.

> That's also true for python interpreter or any other interpreter, is
> there a way to solve this problem automatically?

No, each interpreter starts comint in its own way.

> Maybe a second call should kill and restart instead of visiting the
> already open?

Happy hacking,

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA