From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing the default directory in which emacs save the files Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:58:53 +0200 Message-ID: <487E6F1D.50509@gmail.com> References: <74c0c290807160928r38aa9bd9y501756b021ee09c5@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216245569 29605 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 21:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Carlos Gomes Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 17 00:00:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJF2m-0006Zx-L1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJF1u-0007SA-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJF1c-0007S1-AH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJF1b-0007Rh-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48260 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJF1b-0007Re-1q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:40053) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJF1a-0006FW-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:64457 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KJF1Y-0005e1-4X; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:59:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <74c0c290807160928r38aa9bd9y501756b021ee09c5@mail.gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080712-0, 2008-07-12), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KJF1Y-0005e1-4X. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KJF1Y-0005e1-4X 2f1bd087086ccdf13b89dff70a307e12 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55657 Archived-At: Carlos Gomes wrote: > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I am a big fan and a GNU Emacs user and although I have several books > about it, I have not found the answer for one specific question in any > of them. I have GNU Emacs installed in my computer on both windows and > linux operative systems, and I have been looking for a way that allows > me to change the directory in which emacs saves the files that I am > working with. That is, is there a way to "tell" emacs to save a file in > a directory other than, for instance, C:\Programs\emacs\bin (the > default) in windows, by using the command C-x C-s (save-buffer)? C-x C-w