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

[Richard Stallman]

    > 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.

    Wouldn't it be better to move it to shell.el?
    I.e. create a new function shell-argument?

If that function would only be used in shell.el,
putting it in shell.el sounds like a good idea.
Since it is specifically for dir tracking,
I would call it shell-dir-argument.