From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Odenthal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing directories Date: 13 Mar 2003 22:26:17 +0100 Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047591104 21894 80.91.224.249 (13 Mar 2003 21:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 22:31:41 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 18taIf-0005gh-00 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:31:41 +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 18taHK-0001Fm-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:30:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!news.csl-gmbh.net!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialppp-37-31.dialin.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Original-X-Trace: sunu789.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de 1047590942 7790 134.147.37.31 (13 Mar 2003 21:29:02 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 2003 21:29:02 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Hamster/2.0.0.0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111071 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:7571 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7571 "Michael P. Soulier" writes: > If I want to change my current directory in emacs so that all future > file-find commands are relative to a new location, how would I do > that? (setq default-directory "~/directory") works for me. Nonetheless this default can an will be changed by some applications. E.g., when trying to load my .emacs from within gnus the default directory was "~/news". HTH Christian