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29.4; dirtrack-mode

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Message #8 received at 74524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Colton Goates <coltongoates <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 74524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74524: 29.4; dirtrack-mode
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:38:37 +0200

> From: Colton Goates <coltongoates <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:55:37 -0700
> 
> In a shell, running a command like the following causes a problem with dirtrack-mode:
> 
>     echo 'Coltons-MacBook-Pro:/Users/coltongoates/software-dev/$'
> 
> After running this command, dirtrack thinks I changed to a different
> directory based on the output, and it sets the default-directory
> variable to the output of the echo command. Thus, the actual working
> directory and shell directory are out of sync.

Isn't that because the colon in this (unusual) directory name?  If so,
you could perhaps customize the regexp in dirtrack-list to solve this?

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