Re: shell-popd-regexp not working?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3d754520-0cd8-4183-a01e-894c47c4cf0f@googlegroups.com>,
 Chad Brown <yandros@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've long used the alias `bd' for popd, but I've never bothered to
> make it work in emacs' shell mode before. Today, I ran into the
> issue again, and I decided to fix it. After looking at the doc, I
> customized shell-popd-regexp from `popd' to `bd'. It doesn't seem
> to do what I thought it should do: if I use `bd' in a shell buffer,
> emacs does not change the current directory.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here?  I'm not very familiar with
> shell-mode.

Does it properly update when you use "cd", "pushd", etc.? If not, maybe 
your prompt doesn't match the pattern for that.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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