On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Manolo Martínez <man...@austrohungaro.com> wrote: > On 10/18/13 at 06:12pm, Chris Down wrote: >> On 2013-10-18 12:03, Manolo Martínez wrote: >> Environments only propagate to children, not their parents. You'll need to >> get >> the pwd of the currently focussed window if you want to do that. >> > > You meant "the pwd of the children of the currently focused window", > right? I've just seen that the pwd of urxvt is always my home directory, > even if the pwd of the shell process running in it is not. This is all > pretty arcane to me.
AFAIU: if you `cd` in urxvt, the pwd of the urxvt process will change. If you `vim` and then `:cd` then pwd of the urxvt process will not change (i.e. the parent process (urxvt) keeps its pwd, while the child process (vim) will have a new pwd). -- ______________ Raphaël Proust
