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> From: vb <help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:24:36 -0700
> Cc: don provan <dprovan@comcast.net>
> 
> All other editors but emacs I am used to 
> maintain a notion of "current directory" and allow the user to change this 
> current directory explicitly. The fact that emacs doesn't even have an 
> infrastructure for that just shows how off mark its approach is.

If I understand you correctly, you think that Emacs doesn't have a way
of letting you change the current directory.  That is false: the
command `M-x cd' will do just that.