Subject: bug#66903: 29.1; shell-mode directory tracking incorrectly handles double slashes

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:02:19 +0200

> From: Eshel Yaron <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Allen Li <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 09:35:26 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > I think we disagree about what should be fixed: the value of
> > default-directory or the directory to which "cd ~//bin" switches.
> 
> IIUC what you're implying here is that "cd ~//bin" should actually
> switch the shell's current directory to /bin instead of ~/bin, is that
> right?

Yes.

> I just wanted to note that this is not really an option with M-x shell,
> because it is the shell, and not Emacs, that interprets "cd" and changes
> directory.

You assume that shell.el must send everything the user types verbatim
to the shell?