Comments on: bash context /2009/05/bash-context/ Sarah Allen's reflections on internet software and other topics Mon, 18 May 2009 16:53:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: P T Withington /2009/05/bash-context/#comment-501 Mon, 18 May 2009 16:53:46 +0000 /?p=1327#comment-501 I like to use different terminal windows for my different playpens, so I can keep multiple states and easily toggle between them by switching windows. In emacs, I can use shell buffers with different names, but most terminal programs will display your current directory. So here’s how I do it:

http://svn.openlaszlo.org/sandbox/ptw/.openlaszlorc

I use a shell function, set-lps, that I just need to execute once in the shell window once I have cd-ed to the playpen I want to work in.

]]>