From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tpeplt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: PWD is not seen by my emacs installation Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:44:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87cyzxln4y.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30772"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: Patrick Mahan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 08 14:44:35 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qTM4h-0007uC-Oe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Tue, 08 Aug 2023 05:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from t530.local ([2600:8806:a821:2b00::b20b]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id do13-20020a05622a478d00b003eabcc29132sm3320820qtb.29.2023.08.08.05.44.13 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 08 Aug 2023 05:44:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Patrick Mahan's message of "Mon, 7 Aug 2023 18:58:19 -0700") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::82b; envelope-from=tpeplt@gmail.com; helo=mail-qt1-x82b.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144693 Archived-At: Patrick Mahan writes: > > But inside my .emacs I have - > > (setq workingdir (getenv "PWD")) > message "PWD =3D '%s'" workingdir) > > Which results in - > > PWD =3D =E2=80=99nil=E2=80=99 > > 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=E2=80=99s 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 =E2=80=98message=E2=80=99). Type M-: (info "(emacs) Environment") --