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Re: shell-dir-cookie-re in Emacs 24
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: shell-dir-cookie-re in Emacs 24 |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:14:26 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> Emacs 24 has this in NEWS:
>> *** New variable `shell-dir-cookie-re'.
>> If set to an appropriate regexp, Shell mode can track your cwd by
>> reading it from your prompt.
>
>> Could you explain what the purpose of this is? The docstring says "It
>> can be used instead of or in addition to `dirtrack-mode'", but what does
>> it do that dirtrack-mode doesn't already do?
>
> IIRC it's a poorly designed feature which should really be merged with
> dirtrack-mode (it's basically a lighter-weight version of
> dirtrack-mode, I think). The main distinguishing feature is that
> shell-dir-cookie-re tries to work even if the prompt does not contain
> an absolute directory (e.g. I use it with prompts which only contain
> the last 2 elements of the absolute file name).
OK, I'll merge it into dirtrack-mode and get rid of shell-dir-cookie-re.