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Re: cd


From: Olaf Till
Subject: Re: cd
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:45:56 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:17:03PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 25-Aug-2008, Levente Torok wrote:
> 
> | Hi All,
> | 
> | I ran into an other simple compatibility issue:
> | In octave, 'cd' does not return anything however it should (pwd).
> 
> Yes, this is a known "problem".  I'd consider a patch.
> 
> But one thing that should not be "fixed" is that cd by itself should
> change the current directory to $HOME.  ...

Agree that this should not be "fixed", but wouldn't it be weird then
if the current directory is printed before 'cd' changes to the home
directory?  Olaf


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