Re: current directory

[vb <help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com>]

On Monday 23 October 2006 12:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: vb <help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:24:36 -0700
> > Cc: don provan <dprovan@comcast.net>
> >
> > All other editors but emacs I am used to
> > maintain a notion of "current directory" and allow the user to change
> > this current directory explicitly. The fact that emacs doesn't even have
> > an infrastructure for that just shows how off mark its approach is.
>
> If I understand you correctly, you think that Emacs doesn't have a way
> of letting you change the current directory.  That is false: the
> command `M-x cd' will do just that.
>

Ok, I stand corrected then, it's good to know there is such a feature, I'll 
make use of it.

Let me ask you about another feature I am missing in emacs and which seems a 
bit more involved to implement myself: maintaining current setup over 
restarts. Say I quit emacs with several files open, each in its own window, 
at certain location in a file. Then I quit the session, do some other editing 
in a different directory tree, and then I come back to start emacs in the 
original directory. It comes up and shows me all those files in all those 
windows exactly the way they were when I quit the original editing session.

Kind of a 'lightweight project management' feature - is it available?

Guys, I really appreciate everybody's comments and replies. Sometimes when 
there is a newcomer bitching about the list topic the tensions get quite high 
- it's good to see that here we can have a dialog even though I am not quite 
completely charmed by emacs :-)

cheers,
/vb

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