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

[Michael Albinus]

Jason Kim <jason.kim@revtera.com> writes:

Hi Jason,

> From bbdd6f2665c70e15ccc23f48d664eb6e20df7fa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jason Kim <jason.kim@revtera.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 10:04:54 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Auto-cd support for lisp/shell.el
>
> Added a new defcustom shell-has-auto-cd (default: nil) for
> users with shells like zsh that can auto-cd into a directory
> without typing in the "cd" command.
> If set to true and the command is a directory, then
> shell-directory-tracker processes the command (which happens to be a
> directory) as if it were prepended with "cd"

FTR, the commit message shall have a ChangeLog style.

> +(defcustom shell-has-auto-cd nil
> +  "If non-nil, `shell-mode' handles implicit \"cd\" commands.
> +Implicit \"cd\" is changing the directory if the command is a directory.
> +You can make this variable buffer-local to change it, per shell-mode instance
> +Useful for shells like zsh that has this feature."
> +  :type 'boolean
> +  :group 'shell-directories
> +  :version "28")

This should be "28.1".

> Thanks!
> -Jason

Best regards, Michael.