Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] matlab-shell should be able to change the directory, when needed

[Uwe B. <ou...@ma...>]

>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:48:37 +0100, evelina dineva <ed...@de...> wrote:

   > try the command 
   >> pwd 

   > in the shell to see in which directory it currently is open works on
   > OSX/linux; not sure about windows

yes of course, but then I have still to change the directory
manually.

That is: my *MATLAB* shell is in dir1, I have a matlab file
at hand (which is in dir2) and run `matlab-shell-save-and-go'
but it does not work because this file is in a different
directory. As I said in MS windows a window pops up.

Now in linux I have to switch to the matlab-shell run pwd
and then run cd dir2. That is very cumbersome.

So I came up with the following solution which I can fire up
in the file

(defun matlab-cd-dir-actual ()
  (interactive)
  (matlab-shell-run-command
   (concat "cd " (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name))))
  (message "You have changed the *MATLAB* shell to the current directory."))

This function is sort of overkill it is executed always,
better would be to have a variable which checks whether the
file is in the directory where the *MATLAB* shell runs.

Uwe Brauer