From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Niels Felsted Thorsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: set a "default" directory in a function when asking for a file Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:39:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87abbzssbh.fsf@tsuga.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226848837 6907 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2008 15:20:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:20:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 16:21:39 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 1L1jRS-0006rA-Hr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:21:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45489 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1jQJ-0004w4-PC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1jQ0-0004vn-R8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1jPz-0004vT-Lc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44208 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1jPz-0004vQ-FS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:20:07 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57577 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1jPz-0003lH-Bv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:20:07 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L1jPu-00061G-IA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 49.84-49-97.nextgentel.com ([84.49.97.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: from nift by 49.84-49-97.nextgentel.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:20:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 49.84-49-97.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BFLdV4ZTzarJswWEJbv9ZZoNaSk= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:59832 Archived-At: Hi I have a function like this: (defun testfun (file) (interactive "fFile: ") (message file)) But it will ask for the file based on, as I understand it, the value of "default-directory" which is buffer-local. Is there a way to specify default-directory just for this function? So it will always start with fx: File: ~/foo/bar/ when asking for the file.