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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: setting the default directory on Windows startup
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:52:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wuph383v.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1032473476.3686.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Alan Barton" <abarton@coas.oregonstate.edu> writes:

> 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?

Simply put

       (cd "/my/directory")

in your .emacs file.

       reply	other threads:[~2002-09-19 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1032473476.3686.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-19 22:52 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2002-09-21 13:12 ` setting the default directory on Windows startup maierh
2002-09-19 22:44 Bingham, Jay
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-19 22:10 Alan Barton
2002-09-20 12:08 ` Kevin Dziulko

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