From: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
To: 24999@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:23:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1c9Uho-0000zU-Rc@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (raw)
The elisp manual says:
-- Variable: invocation-directory
This variable holds the directory from which the Emacs executable
was invoked, or perhaps `nil' if that directory cannot be
determined.
However, the doc string says:
invocation-directory is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is "/usr/bin/"
Documentation:
The directory in which the Emacs executable was found, to run it.
The value is nil if that directory's name is not known.
The second description is the correct one, and the elisp manual is
wrong.
The only way I found for obtaining the directory from which
Emacs was invoked is to get the default-directory of the *scratch*
buffer.
next reply other threads:[~2016-11-23 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 10:23 Francesco Potortì [this message]
2016-11-24 17:23 ` bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <handler.24999.D24999.148000823832450.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-11-24 17:45 ` bug#24999: closed (Re: bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory) Francesco Potortì
2016-11-24 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-24 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-24 18:08 ` Francesco Potortì
2016-11-24 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-25 8:44 ` Francesco Potortì
2016-11-25 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-26 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
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