[Matlab-emacs-discuss] execute matlab in a different directory. GNU vs Xemacs

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

Hi

Here is the scenario.



    -  I open a matlab file in dir1, 

    -  start the matlab shell, 

    -  open a matlab file in dir2, now I cannot run matlab directly but
       have to change the shell:

In xemacs the following code worked

(defun matlab-cd-dir-actual ()
  (interactive)
  (setq saved-default-directory default-directory)
  (matlab-shell-run-command
   (concat "cd " (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name))))
  (message (concat "*MATLAB* (& lisp) dir: " (default-directory)))
  (setq command-line-default-directory (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name)))
  (cd (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name)))
  (setq default-directory saved-default-directory)
  (message (concat "Xemacs dir should be: " (default-directory))))

But in GNU emacs it does not, because of default-directory which is a
function in xemacs but not in GNU emacs and I don't want to import all
the code from the Xemacs dired version to GNU emacs.

Anybody has a better solution, that actually works in GNU emacs

Regards

Uwe Brauer