On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Scott Plumlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ideas appreciated. Running emacsw32 on Windows XP. If I change to > a particular directory by hand, with multiple cd commands, Emacs and > the shell correctly autocomplete when I try to cd to a child > directory. > > However, if I have set CDPATH in my .bashrc file, I can do a single cd > command to jump to the same directory. When I then try to cd to a > child directory, Emacs and the shell tell me that there are no > completions. If I type the directory name out, I can cd there just > fine. > > Run cygwin by itself, autocomplete is fine. Only when it's inside emacs. > > It seems that Emacs doesn't realize I've changed directories when it's > via a path in CDPATH. > > Anyone have any experience with this? >
Finally figured it out, apologies for the noise. Setting the CDPATH variable in .bashrc does not seem to let emacs pick it up correctly. Setting it in .emacs/_emacs or another file loaded on startup (in my case, settings for cygwin-mount.el) like this: (setenv "CDPATH" (concat "d:/some/path;~;.;" (getenv "CDPATH"))) works correctly. It also makes opening files default to the same location that the shell is currently visiting, rather than HOME (if I haven't opened any other files) which seems a little more intuitive.
