bug#81559: 31.0.91; speedbar does not follow Dired and shell-dirtrack-mode

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:57:54 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:40:01 +0200
> From: Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email protected]>
> 
> The speedbar does not follow the current shell directory, nor does it
> follow the current directory in Dired. In order to test:
> 
> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-x speedbar
> 3. M-x shell and then cd to change directories => speedbar does not follow
> 4. M-x dired, chose various directories => speedbar does not follow

Did Speedbar ever react to Dired and shell directory changes?  If yes,
in which version of Emacs?  If it never did, this is a request for an
enhancement, right?  And I think the way to add such an enhancement is
described the node "Extending" of the Speedbar manual.