[multi-tty] emacsclient resets working directory

[multi-tty] emacsclient resets working directory

[csant]

I am not sure this is really a bug (I would consider it such), but it  
certainly is a major annoyance (is it expected behaviour?).  Not sure it  
has been already addressed by David Kastrup when speaking about  
environment.

Start an emacs session
	$ cd ~ && emacs -Q
and `M-x server-start'.  When finding a file from the *scratch* buffer, it  
will start looking from $PWD ( ~/ )

Connect an emacsclient, go back to the main server emacs and find a file  
in *scratch*: it will start looking from the emacsclient's $PWD.  Even  
though I might imagine some use cases, this sounds more like an unexpected  
behaviour: to the user both the server and the client frame are perceived  
as separate emacs instances and the $PWD of the emacsclient should not  
modify the server's one.

/c

	

Re: [multi-tty] emacsclient resets working directory

[Károly Lőrentey]

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csant wrote:
> Start an emacs session
>     $ cd ~ && emacs -Q
> and `M-x server-start'.  When finding a file from the *scratch* buffer,
> it will start looking from $PWD ( ~/ )
> 
> Connect an emacsclient, go back to the main server emacs and find a file
> in *scratch*: it will start looking from the emacsclient's $PWD.  Even
> though I might imagine some use cases, this sounds more like an
> unexpected behaviour: to the user both the server and the client frame
> are perceived as separate emacs instances and the $PWD of the
> emacsclient should not modify the server's one.

Changing the current directory of *scratch* was an intentional change,
but it now seems a bad idea to me.  I'll fix this by removing the
feature implementing it.

-- 
Károly


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Re: [multi-tty] emacsclient resets working directory

[Karoly Lorentey]

Károly Lőrentey wrote:
> csant wrote:
>> Start an emacs session
>>     $ cd ~ && emacs -Q
>> and `M-x server-start'.  When finding a file from the *scratch* buffer,
>> it will start looking from $PWD ( ~/ )
>
> Changing the current directory of *scratch* was an intentional change,
> but it now seems a bad idea to me.  I'll fix this by removing the
> feature implementing it.

Done.

-- 
Karoly