[slime-devel] Question about current directory and M-x cd behavior

[Zach Beane]

Jeffrey Cunningham <jeffrey at jkcunningham.com> writes:

> Thanks, Zach. That's exactly what I needed to know.
>
> I tried it in a fresh emacs & slime setup and see that M-x cd calls
> swank:set-default-directory, after which *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* has been
> changed as expected. What's curious is that I periodically run into cases
> where  it doesn't seem to be working. Of course, at the moment my working emacs
> slime (recently started) is behaving as it should. Next time it acts up I'll
> take a look at the value of *default-pathname-defaults* to see if it is in fact
> being changed. I bet not.

M-x cd invokes the emacs "cd" function, which changes emacs's notion of
where the current working directory is, but it has no effect on the Lisp
implementation connected via SLIME.

M-x slime-cd (or the ,cd REPL command) should always update the Lisp
implementation's notion of the current working directory.

Zach