cd: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Aug-2005, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:

| It seems it's an old problem, but it stills bite me (see
| http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/bug-octave.2000/msg00334.html)
| 
| ~/matlab is a symbolic link: matlab -> .secure/matlab
| .secure is a mount point for a encrypted partition
| my ~/.octaverc contains: cd ~/matlab;
| 
| typical session: M-x run-octave
| octave> pwd
| /users/pdupuis/matlab
| octave> cd somedir
| cd: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable
| octave> cd; pwd
| /users/pdupuis/
| octave> cd matlab/somedir
| octave> 
| 
| I got it on two machines, emacs21.4, one debian etch, one Red Hat
| Enterprise Linux  release 4. It looks like 'cd' must  first be called
| once without argument to work correctly afterwads. For instance, the
| following still does not work: "cd ..; cd matlab/subdir" altough the
| 'trajectory' is the same. And I don't use CDPATH
| 
| Any clue ?

WHat happens if you are running Octave from the shell instead of
inside Emacs?  Does it work properly then?  If so, then I suspect the
bug is in one of the Emacs functions for the Octave interaction mode

  inferior-octave-directory-tracker
  inferior-octave-resync-dirs

defined in octave-inf.el.

jwe



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