From: gerlach <jack@aiai.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 23:31:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avd4d8FdustU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <avd31vFdl82U1@mid.individual.net>
Am 13.05.2013 23:08, schrieb gerlach:
> Am 10.05.2013 23:02, schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon:
>> gerlach <jack@aiai.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I googl'ed a lot and didn't find it: how can I change the default
>>> "insert path" (ctrl-x i) from /tmp to e.g. /home/gerlach ?
>>
>> M-: (setq default-directory "/home/gerlach/") RET
>>
>>
>
> i state today that its any longer working! Default directory is /tmp
> once again. Why?
>
> my /home/gerlach/.emacs
> (setq fill-column 50)
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
> (setq default-directory "/home/gerlach/")
>
>
> BTW: (setq fill-column 50) is ignored. Even if I insert 20 instead of
> 50. Why?
>
> The .emacs file is found and read, the proof: when I produce a error like
> (setq asdasdfasdfasdf fill-column 50) the error is claimed by emacs at
> start.
>
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace) is also
> ignored. I have to execute the command explicitely.
now it works ... I don't know what changed ... !?!
>
>
> Then I want to enable php highlightning with my old emacs (Suse 11.1,
> don't know the version) this worked fine:
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (append
> '( (".*\.php$" .html-mode) (".*\.php$" .html-mode)
> )
> auto-mode-alist))
>
works now in my ubuntu 12.04. aptitude install php-elisp installed the
php plugin and that code in .emacs
(global-font-lock-mode 1)
(require 'php-mode)
(setq auto-mode-alist
(append '(("\.php$" . php-mode)
("\.module$" . php-mode))
auto-mode-alist))
> In my actual emacs 23.3.1 nothing works ... even not default-directory
> "/home/gerlach/" ... incredible ... WHY?
Any ideas?
>
>
> I use emacs in text mode (-nw) only.
>
> tia
> Eckard
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-13 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 20:23 How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory? gerlach
2013-05-10 20:48 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-10 21:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-10 21:14 ` gerlach
2013-05-13 21:08 ` gerlach
2013-05-13 21:31 ` gerlach [this message]
2013-05-13 21:40 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-13 21:48 ` Barry Margolin
2013-05-11 0:50 ` Barry Margolin
2013-05-14 9:52 ` gerlach
2013-05-14 13:44 ` Suvayu Ali
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