From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maarten Bergvelt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change working directory in emacs Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Department of Mathematics, UIUC. Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bergv@uiuc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151696431 13766 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2006 19:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:40:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 30 21:40:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwOqm-0007vB-8f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:40:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwOql-0005mU-Q4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:40:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.ks.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bolmikolke.math.uiuc.edu Original-X-Trace: news.ks.uiuc.edu 1151694047 32500 130.126.108.244 (30 Jun 2006 19:00:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news+abuse@ks.uiuc.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:00:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140143 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35768 Archived-At: In article , 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