From: John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>
Subject: Re: current directory
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:17:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871woyn8p2.fsf@ashbery.wjsullivan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200610231024.37118.help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com
vb <help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> writes:
> no, it would not be insane at all. 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.
>
M-x cd
But anyway, I find it quite common in applications of all types to have the
default directory in any file chooser be determined by some method -- often,
the default directory starts with whatever directory you chose the last time
you used the chooser.
I think the emacs behavior of having the default directory be the directory
where the file currently being accessed lives is sensible.
You do know that if you just type a / after the default input, you are back at
root again, right? You don't even have to delete the default text that emacs
inserts in the minibuffer.
--
-John Sullivan
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2006-10-19 16:01 ` current directory Fang lun gang
2006-10-19 16:52 ` vb
2006-10-20 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2006-10-19 19:22 ` rgb
2006-10-19 21:00 ` vb
2006-10-21 18:38 ` don provan
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2006-10-23 19:17 ` John Sullivan [this message]
2006-10-23 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-23 20:36 ` vb
2006-10-23 21:47 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-10-24 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-24 5:24 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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2006-10-23 21:52 ` Maarten Bergvelt
2006-10-23 20:32 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2006-10-23 17:48 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-23 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-23 18:33 ` Colin S. Miller
2006-10-23 18:58 ` vb
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2006-10-23 19:46 ` Peter Boettcher
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2006-10-20 16:46 ` Sam Peterson
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2006-10-20 5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2006-10-18 21:52 help-gnu-emacs
2006-10-18 22:32 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-10-18 23:12 ` vb
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