From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: default directory for windows Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:48:31 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9bf9bf15-3c7e-4d00-9c25-7a367ee8742b@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202917241 14970 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2008 15:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 13 16:41:05 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 1JPJjM-0007K9-S3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:41:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPJit-0001Lt-0v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.5.169 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202914111 15636 127.0.0.1 (13 Feb 2008 14:48:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.5.169; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156111 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:51489 Archived-At: One of the (many) problems I have using emacs under windows is that ti starts off with the pwd being in the directory where emacs is installed rather than my home. So my .emacs has (cd "~") to get around this But I imagine this is not the proper way to correcting the problem. Is there not some 'pre-variable' from which default-directory is set?