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From: Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: change working directory in emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:00:47 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrneaat6v.rl4.bergv@bolmikolke.math.uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3585.1151692923.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

In article <mailman.3585.1151692923.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, 
danielx wrote:
> 
> When you find file in emacs, how does it it decide which directory you will
> begin finding? Usually, it's the directory where you started emacs, but if
> you've already opened some other files, you begin finding elsewhere. Also,
> how can I tell emacs where I want to begin finding? Thanks!

M-x pwd tells you what the default directory for the buffer is and you
use M-x cd to change it, see the emacs manual, section on file names.

-- 
Maarten Bergvelt		

       reply	other threads:[~2006-06-30 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3585.1151692923.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-06-30 19:00 ` Maarten Bergvelt [this message]
2006-07-02 18:57   ` change working directory in emacs danielx
2006-06-30 18:20 danielx
2006-06-30 18:53 ` Drew Adams
2006-06-30 21:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-06-30 21:41   ` Eli Zaretskii

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