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From: lloyd!sunfs3!geoff@HSCFVAX.HARVARD.EDU (Geoffrey Knauth)
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Subject: shell mode & $cdpath
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Date: 9 Feb 89 21:36:33 GMT
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   Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 16:30:46 EST
   From: tod@sunfs2 (Tod Hagan)

   The manual indicates that in shell mode emacs goes to great lengths to
   recognize cd, pushd and popd commands so that it may keep the
   '*shell*' buffer's default directory the same as the working directory
   of the shell.  I see that it can deal with aliases for those commands
   but I see nothing about handling the 'cdpath' variable in the c-shell.
   Is there an undocumented feature for handling 'cdpath'?

Emacs recognizes all my cd / pushd / popd commands, so long as they
are typed right after the prompt.  I don't know about $cdpath.  I'll
have to look or ask.  Note that:

  % do_something_here_and_then; cd somewhere_else

leaves emacs thinking it's still in the old directory.  (Try "M-x pwd".)