Re: M-x shell question

[raman]

I went back and forth with respect to pushd vs cd when I wrote this
(approx 10+ years ago from memory).

I stayed  with pushd after changing  back and forth because   I found
that after landing in the shell if I didn't want to be in the directory
of the buffer from whence I came, then the most common thing I wanted
was to go back to where it had been.

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