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Last dirtrack issue solved

Ian — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:03:03 +0000

Turns out the problem I ran into was a clash between dirtrack-mode and shell-dirtrack-mode. I had no idea there were two competing packages; the problem was that dirtrack picked up the new path, then shell-dirtrack noticed the “cd ..”.

Solved:

(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (setq shell-dirtrackp nil)
            (add-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions 'dirtrack nil t)))

This caused some trouble with ssh-mode. Solved thusly:

(add-hook 'ssh-mode-hook (lambda () (setq dirtrackp nil)))

A problem with my dirtrack regex

Ian — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:49:47 +0000

I’ve been happily using my dirtrack regex for a while now, but I just discovered that it breaks when you run cd ... It seems that my regex picks up the correct (new) directory, then shell-mode notices the cd and list-buffers-directory goes up one more level.

I’m not sure how to fix this – is there some way to disable the intercept of “cd?”

Better abbrev expansion in shell-mode

Ian — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:50:51 +0000

One of the little things that has bugged me about shell-mode is that abbrevs don’t get expanded when you press RET. I have a number of frequently used commands and arguments abbreviated, but I have to hit a key to expand them before I send the line.

The solution is to advise comint-send-input.

(defadvice comint-send-input (before expand-input activate)
       "Expand input before sending"
       (expand-abbrev))