From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell mode, changing directory Date: 21 Mar 2003 17:56:24 +0000 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E7B3B46.1090204@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048269708 21730 80.91.224.249 (21 Mar 2003 18:01:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 19:01:46 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wQpu-0005e7-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:01:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wQoY-0006EK-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:00:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!server1.netnews.ja.net!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bromine.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk 1048269385 20197 193.62.192.35 (21 Mar 2003 17:56:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@net.bio.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:56:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111295 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7794 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7794 >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Rodgers writes: Kevin> Phillip Lord wrote: >> Can anyone tell me how to force a *shell* buffer to change it's >> current working directory? Effectively I want to fake typing "cd >> blah", but I can't see a good way to do this. Kevin> M-x cd RET blah RET This appears to change the default directory of the buffer, not the current working directory of the shell, which is not really what I want. Both need to happen. Cheers Phil