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From: tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PWD is not seen by my emacs installation
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:44:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyzxln4y.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFDHx1JPJdhK4vwnvfNTEvK=CQzMjd1M4juS=svUu+a=xs6-Qw@mail.gmail.com> (Patrick Mahan's message of "Mon, 7 Aug 2023 18:58:19 -0700")

Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> writes:

>
> But inside my .emacs I have -
>
> (setq workingdir (getenv "PWD"))
> message "PWD = '%s'" workingdir)
>
> Which results in -
>
> PWD = ’nil’
>
> Unless I open using a Full pathname, it will not open the file correctly.
>
> Suggestions?
>

1. View your *Messages* (type C-h e) to see if there are any error
   messages during Emacs’s start-up that might be related to this.

2. Read the Emacs manual on the environment (although there does not
   appear to be any problem with your expressions other than a missing
   leading parenthesis before ‘message’).  Type

      M-: (info "(emacs) Environment")

--



  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-08 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-08  1:58 PWD is not seen by my emacs installation Patrick Mahan
2023-08-08 12:44 ` tpeplt [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAFDHx1Jk=jtHhLdThFUeFpfa=yGTXoKYuu0bADYAN-j-7FjSHw@mail.gmail.com>
2023-08-09  0:59     ` tpeplt
2023-08-08 19:07 ` stefan-husmann
2023-08-08 21:21   ` Patrick Mahan
2023-08-09  5:37     ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-08-09 20:21       ` Patrick Mahan
2023-08-22  1:14         ` David Masterson
2023-08-22  4:24           ` Patrick Mahan
2023-08-30 22:29 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2023-08-30 23:43   ` Patrick Mahan
2023-09-03 15:27   ` Rudolf Schlatte

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