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cd: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
cd: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:50:38 -0400 |
On 19-Aug-2005, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
| It seems it's an old problem, but it stills bite me (see
| http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/bug-octave.2000/msg00334.html)
|
| ~/matlab is a symbolic link: matlab -> .secure/matlab
| .secure is a mount point for a encrypted partition
| my ~/.octaverc contains: cd ~/matlab;
|
| typical session: M-x run-octave
| octave> pwd
| /users/pdupuis/matlab
| octave> cd somedir
| cd: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable
| octave> cd; pwd
| /users/pdupuis/
| octave> cd matlab/somedir
| octave>
|
| I got it on two machines, emacs21.4, one debian etch, one Red Hat
| Enterprise Linux release 4. It looks like 'cd' must first be called
| once without argument to work correctly afterwads. For instance, the
| following still does not work: "cd ..; cd matlab/subdir" altough the
| 'trajectory' is the same. And I don't use CDPATH
|
| Any clue ?
WHat happens if you are running Octave from the shell instead of
inside Emacs? Does it work properly then? If so, then I suspect the
bug is in one of the Emacs functions for the Octave interaction mode
inferior-octave-directory-tracker
inferior-octave-resync-dirs
defined in octave-inf.el.
jwe
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