Re: define Info's "dir"?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

gebser@speakeasy.net wrote:
 > I'm not the original poster, but I'd like to be able to set the default
 > directory interactively and change it from time to time.  The motivation
 > is that I sometimes work on a project whose (multiple) files all reside,
 > or will reside, in a particular directory (or subdirs of it.  As a
 > fictional example, suppose I'm working on economics today.  Throughout
 > the day I create several files which I want to have in econ/national/,
 > econ/state/, econ/local/, and econ/international.  In this case I'd want
 > the default directory to be /home/ken/projects/writings/politics/econ/
 > but wouldn't want to have to type that in every time I visit a file.
 > I'm aware of "M-x cd" but this sets "default-directory" only for that
 > buffer.  I'd like a function (defun in emacspeak, yes?) which is global,
 > i.e., sets the default-directory no matter which buffer I'm currently
 > visiting.  Is there such a nicety?

Why don't you just visit files from a Dired buffer visiting that directory?
C-x d ~/projects/writings/politics/econ

-- 
Kevin Rodgers