bug#7300: 23.2; MS Windows directory where Emacs starts

bug#7300: 23.2; MS Windows directory where Emacs starts

[Jay Bingham]

This is a report of a documentation deficiency as opposed to an operation bug.

I recently installed Emacs 23.2 after using Emacs 21.3 for several
years.
I had set up Emacs 21.3 to start up in the C: directory but had forgotten how
I had done that. I searched the info nodes in vain for several days
looking for the information that I knew I had seen somewhere. Finally
after making an inquiry on the MS Windows Emacs help mailing list I found
the location on the EmacsWiki site on the MsWindowsInstallation page
(http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MsWindowsInstallation) under the heading
SETTING UP EMACS ON MS-WINDOWS.
Please consider adding information to the MS Windows info node about the
Emacs start directory as it applies to running Emacs in the MS Windows
environment especially when starting Emacs using a shortcut. Please include
information about setting the start directory using the 'Start in:' field in the
shortcut properties of a shortcut used to invoke Emacs.

No crash to report.

In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  which-function-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  size-indication-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<triple-wheel-up> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> 
<triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> 
<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <down-mouse-4> 
<mouse-4> u <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> u 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> u <wheel-down> 
<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> 
<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> u <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-2> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> 
<triple-wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
u <help-echo> <wheel-down> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
u <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> 
<double-wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> 
<double-wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> 
<triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> <wheel-up> 
<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-2> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <wheel-up> 
<double-wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> 
u <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
<double-wheel-down> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> 
<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <wheel-up> 
<double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> C-h a s t a r t SPC d i r e c t o r y <return> 
C-h a SPC d i r e c t o r y <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> u 
u C-h a d i r e c t o r y <return> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <f7> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
C-x 1 <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> 
<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <wheel-up> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-2> <help-echo> <help-echo> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
C-s d i r e c t o r y <return> C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s 
C-s C-s C-s C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <f7> 
M-x <up> <return>

Recent messages:
Mark set [3 times]
Undo!
Mark set [7 times]
Quit
Composing main Info directory...done
Info-follow-nearest-node: Point neither on reference nor in menu item description
byte-code: Beginning of buffer [32 times]
No apropos matches for `start directory'
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  
Mark saved where search started [2 times]

Load-path shadows:
~/.emacs.d/lisp/devel-alpha/exec hides ~/.emacs.d/lisp/devel-beta/exec
~/.emacs.d/lisp/devel-alpha/exec hides ~/.emacs.d/lisp/exec
~/.emacs.d/lisp/ibuffer hides c:/Program Files/emacs-23.2/lisp/ibuffer

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec
password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231
rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc
time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util
hashcash mail-utils multi-isearch help-mode view apropos info emacsbug
show-wspace windmove which-func imenu template dired-details ibuffer
derived dired-sort-menu dired-x dired-aux dired regexp-opt exec
browse-kill-ring advice help-fns advice-preload paren mic-paren cus-edit
easymenu cus-start cus-load wid-edit tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars
tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar
rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button
minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)

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bug#7300: 23.2; MS Windows directory where Emacs starts

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Jay Bingham" <b.jc-emacs@netzero.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:30:13 GMT
> Cc: 
> 
> Please consider adding information to the MS Windows info node about the
> Emacs start directory as it applies to running Emacs in the MS Windows
> environment especially when starting Emacs using a shortcut. Please include
> information about setting the start directory using the 'Start in:' field in the
> shortcut properties of a shortcut used to invoke Emacs.

Done, thanks.