Subject: bug#16861: 24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:13:07 +0100

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

> "R. Michael Weylandt" <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Enter eshell, change to / and then cd to ".." and eshell/pwd reports
>> "/.." instead of the canonical "/":
>
> (expand-file-name ".." "/") -> "/.."
>
> See its doc string.

We are speaking here of `eshell/pwd' which should return "/" like
`*pwd', `expand-filename' is unrelated to this.
The prompt of eshell is also showing "/.." which is not correct.

Try (setq eshell-pwd-convert-function 'file-truename)

Which fix the problem.

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