Re: Small shell-mode patch to handle auto-cd (e.g. shells like zsh)

[Jason Kim]

On 5/8/21 10:19 AM, Jason Kim wrote:

Eli,
Hi, I'd like to walk back anything that may seem like a criticism. I did 
not mean to imply any such, and apologies if you were taken aback.

The main point here simply is that AFAIK, the switch is the simplest, 
least intrusive way to get this very small support capability in to 
shell mode, and that additional upgrades are perfectly possible, but 
IMHO not apropos at the moment.

Thanks again,
and hopefully you guys are ok with it.

-Jason


> Sure, I suppose, but why do it? I'm a zsh user and I'm perfectly fine 
> with it as a switch that I can put in my .emacs :-)
>
> and hijacking comint like that can add glitches, and introduce 
> irreproducibility (I automate creation of shells, pasting commands to 
> comint etc..).
>
> Auto injecting commands to what should be a user-input space seems a bit 
> wierd just to support this feature, and may not be optimal, because it 
> is unexpected
>
> I'd be happy to help with this improvement, if that's REALLY what you 
> want but it can add glitches to user's automation of shells, but I don't 
> think its necessary (for now), and I humbly request we punt on it.
>
> Thanks!
> -Jason