From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Michael P. Soulier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing directories Date: 13 Mar 2003 22:29:59 GMT Organization: Storm Internet Services Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: msoulier@storm.ca._nospam NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047595016 9420 80.91.224.249 (13 Mar 2003 22:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 23:36:55 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18tbJn-0002Rl-00 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:36:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18tbDm-0005wL-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:30:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!east1.newsfeed.sprint-canada.net!news.storm.ca!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-216-106-111-5.storm.ca Original-X-Trace: news.storm.ca 1047594599 9003 216.106.111.5 (13 Mar 2003 22:29:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@storm.ca Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 2003 22:29:59 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111075 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7575 On 13 Mar 2003 22:26:13 GMT, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Thanks, I'll try that. Maybe I can code around such apps with a simple > cache of my working directory and a quick restore via a function key or > something. Actually, if I set default-directory to the working directory that I want, and then try file-find, and use the spacebar for autocompletion, it keeps complaining that the directory I specified doesn't exist. Something's wrong there. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier , GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html