From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: danielx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: change working directory in emacs Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5124734.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151692953 31766 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2006 18:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 30 20:42:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwNwU-0006d9-MF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:42:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwNwU-0006gJ-7L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FwNwI-0006fs-6a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FwNwH-0006fg-9f for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwNwH-0006fd-6E for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.35] (helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FwO96-0005jV-Gq for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1FwNwF-0000k6-LF for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:41:59 -0700 Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Nabble-Sender: danielwong125@hotmail.com X-Nabble-From: danielx 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:35766 Archived-At: When you find file in emacs, how does it it decide which directory you will begin finding? Usually, it's the directory where you started emacs, but if you've already opened some other files, you begin finding elsewhere. Also, how can I tell emacs where I want to begin finding? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/change-working-directory-in-emacs-tf1874584.html#a5124734 Sent from the Emacs - Help forum at Nabble.com.