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Re: shell-popd-regexp not working?


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: shell-popd-regexp not working?
Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 23:53:06 -0400
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In article <mailman.25142.1367721572.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> > I've long used the alias `bd' for popd...
> 
> [O-T: Interesting.  A zillion years ago I chose `u' for `pushd', `o' for 
> `popd',
> and `uo' for `pushd; popd' (i.e., remove 2nd entry - since `pushd' with no 
> arg
> swaps), and I've never looked back.]
> 
> Can't help much with the Emacs question; sorry.  For me, `o' and the rest 
> work
> as usual in an Emacs shell buffer (with no customizations, e.g.,
> `shell-popd-regexp' is just the default, "popd").

If you don't customize it, how does Emacs know that you've changed 
directories? It needs to emulate the directory changes so that filename 
completion works.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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