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efaq: Shell mode loses the current directory

 
 6.9 Why does shell mode lose track of the shell’s current directory?
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 Emacs has no way of knowing when the shell actually changes its
 directory.  This is an intrinsic limitation of Unix.  So it tries to
 guess by recognizing ‘cd’ commands.  If you type ‘cd’ followed by a
 directory name with a variable reference (‘cd $HOME/bin’) or with a
 shell metacharacter (‘cd ../lib*’), Emacs will fail to correctly guess
 the shell’s new current directory.  A huge variety of fixes and
 enhancements to shell mode for this problem have been written to handle
 this problem (Finding a package with particular functionality).
 
    You can tell Emacs the shell’s current directory with the command
 ‘M-x dirs’.
 

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