On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:43 AM Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 21:25 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > I've been thinking about the exact same thing recently; how about a
> > 'jhbuild jump' command that will take you from a location under
> > srcdir to
> > the corresponding location under builddir and vice versa? And perhaps
> > have
> > some environment variables defined as well.
>
> It could run 'jhbuild shell' if UNDER_JHBUILD is unset, then do the
> jump. That would be useful.
>

I soon ran into the should-have-been-obvious-in-hindsight limitation that
you can't change the parent process's working directory from a jhbuild
command.

I'm thinking a bash alias might be better in this case. (Unless we want
something like "cd `jhbuild jump`")

Regards,
Philip C
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