From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: PWD is not seen by my emacs installation Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:14:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87wmy52v3f.fsf@frege.mail-host-address-is-not-set> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37371"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Rudolf Schlatte , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Patrick Mahan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 22 03:20:39 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 1qYG4U-0009XE-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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I just want to edit the file in the > local directory. I do not want to have to say "open -a Emacs.app > $PWD/file.txt" just to open a local file. > > I also tried using the --env option to the open command but it does not > seem to work. > > Invoking it directly works correctly. This sounds like the same problem of starting Emacs from an icon in many window managers. The standard icons often don't load your "profile", but rather uses a default "slimmed down" profile. Try this: 1. Start Emacs from the icon 2. Check your environment by either of these ways: 2a, 'M-x shell' and then 'env' 2b. 'C-h v process-environment' 3. Compare that environment with your "directly" environment 4. If $HOME is correct in #2 & #3, you can fix other key environment variables using early-init.el (see 'Init File' in the Emacs infodocs). 5. Use 'setenv' in early-init.el to adjust your environment as needed. -- David Masterson