Re: shell-popd-regexp not working?

[J. David Boyd]

Chad Brown <yandros@gmail.com> writes:

> I've long used the alias `bd' for popd, but I've never bothered to
> make it work in emacs' shell mode before. Today, I ran into the
> issue again, and I decided to fix it. After looking at the doc, I
> customized shell-popd-regexp from `popd' to `bd'. It doesn't seem
> to do what I thought it should do: if I use `bd' in a shell buffer,
> emacs does not change the current directory.
>
> Am I doing something wrong here?  I'm not very familiar with
> shell-mode.

That sounds like a nice function, I'd like to see it work too.