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

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

>> 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.

Yes, as far as I can tell, this has never worked. It is a feature
request.

Daniel