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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Cc: 18851@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:15:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvm61f2lumm.fsf@hawking.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141029153959.GM5545@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (Vincent Lefevre's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:39:59 +0100")

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:

> emacs --eval '(setq default-directory nil) (find-file "~/out")'
>
> fails, but I wonder why.

Try this:

emacs --eval '(progn (setq default-directory nil) (find-file "~/out"))'

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-27 13:33 bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-28 21:34 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-29  1:28   ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29  3:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29  8:09       ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 12:57         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 15:39             ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 16:07               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 16:44                 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 16:15               ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-10-29 16:51                 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 17:31                   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-29 17:45                     ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 18:23                       ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-10-29 21:11                         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-30  0:39               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-12  0:39                 ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-12  7:53                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-12 15:45                     ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-12 19:31                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-13  1:29                         ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-13  7:56                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-13 23:45                             ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-29 14:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 15:39           ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-29 16:00             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 16:05           ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-10-29 16:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29  3:40   ` Eli Zaretskii

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