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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:07:36 +0100 (MET)
> > 
> > Sounds like Bash doesn't expect the application to chdir?  Can you try 
> > something similar with another program, like `less', or even command.com?
> > In that other application, change the directory, then exit, and see if 
> > Bash gets confused in the same way.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.

Neither do I: my brain was off when I wrote that, since shelling out
of Emacs starts a new instance of Bash, so it has nothing to do with
preserving the working directory.  Sorry.

I tried this now, and I cannot reproduce the problem, I think.  This
sequence of commands:

	 set SHELL=c:/djgpp/bin/bash.exe
	 emacs -q foo/f.c
	 C-z

lands me in a shell, where "pwd" reports `foo', and "ls" indeed
prints the files in `foo'.

Note that Emacs puts a PWD variable into the environment when it
spawns a shell, and the value of PWD should state the directory of the
file you were editing when you shelled out.  Does this happen for you?

Could this be a result of some local customizations, either in Emacs
or in Bash init files?

> Actually I think I found a way to reproduce it. I stand in
> e:/hackery/bash_emacs_confusion and do "emacs a/c" where a/c doesn't
> exist (a exists and is a directory), then I press C-Z the first thing
> I do (after waiting some seconds).

Can't reproduce this, either.  Is this on DOS or on Windows?

Also, what version of Bash?