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From: Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: cd, pwd and symlinks
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Hubert Canon (Hubert.Canon@irisa.fr) wrote:
> But I am a bit confused, because I would like that `cd ..' had the
> present behaviour (when these options are unset) and that I use
> another construct (like `cd ./..' for example) when I want to follow
> links.

Sounds like a reasonable request.  You could implement it with a
function:

  function ccd {
    # Chase Change Directory
    setopt localopts chaselinks
    builtin cd "$@"
  }

and then do 

  % ccd ..

or even as a wrapper around cd, but I'll leave that as an exercise to
the reader :-)