Re: address@hidden: Re: comint's directory tracking doesn't understand \( or \)]

[David Kastrup]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> David Hansen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:44:48 -0500 Richard Stallman wrote:
>>
>>> Would someone please study this, install it if it is safe, then ack?
>>
>> Alone it's doing not that much.  The attached patch should fix all
>> problems with shell-modes directory tracking and special characters
>> in directory names.
>>
>> I'm sorry that it's a bit longish, but the original regexps are a
>> bit to much for my small brain ;)
>
> I'm leery of introducing this kind of change into comint.el at this
> stage in the release.  It doesn't seem to fit Richard's criterion of
> being "simple and safe".
>
> BTW, I can't seem to reproduce the problem referenced in the original
> bug report.
>
> M-x shell RET
> ~ $ cd /tmp/
> /tmp $ mkdir /tmp/'(2007)'
> /tmp $ cd \(2007\)
> /tmp/(2007) $ pwd
>
>  => /tmp/(2007)

Uh, I guess you should not use 
pwd RET
but rather
M-x pwd RET

for checking the problem.

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