From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [david.hansen@gmx.net: Re: comint's directory tracking doesn't understand \( or \)] Date: 04 Mar 2007 16:23:31 -0700 Message-ID: References: <871wk56tjh.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <87wt1xhv0u.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173051434 23539 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2007 23:37:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Chris Moore" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 00:37:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HO0GI-0004Qg-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:37:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HO0GH-0008Pc-NS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:37:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HO0G6-0008PN-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:36:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HO0G5-0008PB-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HO0G5-0008P8-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HO0G4-0004oV-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:36:52 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l24Nafct008700; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:36:41 -0500 Original-Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l24NaeO8005321; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l24Nad5n029852; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id D00463786CB; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:23:31 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67325 Archived-At: >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Moore writes: Chris> It's unfortunate that the default Emacs M-x shell mode is so flaky in Chris> this regard. Even something as simple as "cd $PROJECT" confuses it. On Linux, Emacs could watch /proc/PID/cwd and not ever get an incorrect answer, at least not for the shell process. This is less handy if the user runs sub-shells or the like. Tom