From: Kevin Dziulko <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu>
Cc: <abarton@coas.oregonstate.edu>
Subject: Re: setting the default directory on Windows startup
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:08:54 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209200805170.15881-100000@klaatu.canisius.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LLEMKKLPAAHIALPGLKPMGEAECAAA.abarton@coas.oregonstate.edu>
Add this to your _emacs file:
(setq default-directory "C:\\home/")
Kevin
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Alan Barton wrote:
> I'm a new user of emacs on Windows, although I have some experience on Linux
> OS versions. When I open an emacs session and select 'File' -> 'Open file'
> , my directory tree starts looking in 'c:\emacs\bin\' when I would prefer
> that it start looking in my 'c:\home' directory.
>
> I found the variable 'insert-default-directory', but this just seems to be a
> toggle switch, and does not allow me to input the name of a new default
> directory. I'm aware that I can simply 'cd' in to my working directory each
> time I open an emacs session, but I'd like my sessions to automatically 'cd'
> to my working directory on startup. How do I go about doing this?
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
> -Alan Barton
> abarton@coas.oregonstate.edu
>
>
>
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2002-09-19 22:10 setting the default directory on Windows startup Alan Barton
2002-09-20 12:08 ` Kevin Dziulko [this message]
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2002-09-19 22:44 Bingham, Jay
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2002-09-19 22:52 ` Jesper Harder
2002-09-21 13:12 ` maierh
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