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

[Richard Stallman]

    shell-mode watches your input for commands that change the directory
    (mainly the shells `cd' command but also `popd', `pushd' and maybe
    others).

    shell-mode then just use the first argument - (comint-arguments 1 1) -
    to this command to keep track of the working dir of the shell process.

This patch would be safer if you add a new function comint-dir-argument
which does the new thing, and is used only for dir tracking.
Then you could leave comint-arguments unchanged, and avoid the risk
of breaking something else with some other shell.

With that alteration, I think we could install it now.