From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24999: closed (Re: bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:07:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83bmx46bcf.fsf@gnu.org> <837f7s69y2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480122495 20782 195.159.176.226 (26 Nov 2016 01:08:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 24999@debbugs.gnu.org To: Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 26 02:08:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cARTN-0004ew-Kl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 02:08:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cARTR-0001mh-AN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:08:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cARTI-0001mT-1R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cARTH-00019M-68 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:54779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cARTH-000198-3D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cARTG-00041y-Sx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:08:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:08:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24999 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 24999-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24999.148012243215419 (code B ref 24999); Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:08:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24999) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Nov 2016 01:07:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41941 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cARSR-00040c-RZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38542) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cARSQ-00040Q-Ma for 24999@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cARSK-0000Eh-W6 for 24999@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56111) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cARSH-0000Bq-HA; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cARSG-00017e-O8; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:07:00 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:44:00 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126099 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > and, while writing it, it struck me that "invocation-directory" should > mean just that: the directory from which Emacs was invoked. 'invocation-directory' is the directory in which the Emacs executable was found. It is NOT supposed to be the directory that was current at that time. If you run Emacs with ~/bin/emacs, 'invocation-directory' would be "~/bin/". -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.