From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 17:48:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-30C63C.17485413052013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: avd31vFdl82U1@mid.individual.net
In article <avd31vFdl82U1@mid.individual.net>, gerlach <jack@aiai.de>
wrote:
> 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. At least in 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?
fill-column is a buffer-local variable. Use setq-default to set the
default value for new buffers.
And as I mentioned in another reply, default-directory is also
buffer-local. However, it doesn't help much to set its default value,
because it's automatically changed to the directory containing the file
you're editing. You can use setq-default, but that will only work for
buffers that aren't editing files.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-13 21:48 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
2013-05-13 21:40 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-13 21:48 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-05-11 0:50 ` Barry Margolin
2013-05-14 9:52 ` gerlach
2013-05-14 13:44 ` Suvayu Ali
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