[slime-devel] does change-directory change *default-pathname-defaults*

[Mirko Vukovic]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
<pjb at informatimago.com> wrote:
> Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On clisp 2.48+cygwin and slime of 2010-09-03, changing directory
>> leaves *default-pathname-defaults* unchanged.
>>
>> Is that a feature or bug?
>
> It's a feature.
>
> EXT:CD changes the POSIX current working directory.
>
> Setting *default-pathname-defaults* changes the default lisp pathname
> defaults.
>
> Changing them doesn't change the default-directory in emacs either.
>
>
> Well, if you want to keep synchronized the POSIX current working
> directory with *default-pathname-defaults*, you could use
> com.informatimago.common-lisp.browser:cd instead of ext:cd.
>
> http://www.informatimago.com/develop/lisp/com/informatimago/common-lisp/browser.lisp


Nice.  I will try it out