Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; I think that fishing around for something that looks like the current directory would be sufficient. It doesn't have to be perfect, just an improvement on tracking 'cd' commands. It doesn't always work, for example in a shell buffer running tcsh the prompt shows: avised＠itdev1> I hit M-RET and this changes to avised＠itdev1> dirs -> and the status line says 'No such directory: /u/avised/->'. It seems that 'dirs' requires just as much knowledge of the shell as looking at the prompt string - how do you know what it is going to print? -- Ed Avis <ed.avis(a)kbcfp.com&gt;