From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory? Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 23:40:21 +0200 Message-ID: <0AE87248-A600-4021-8F67-C88B7F18E71E@Web.DE> References: <877gj6sg4g.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368481238 20889 80.91.229.3 (13 May 2013 21:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 21:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: gerlach Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 13 23:40:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc0U0-0004zm-6s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 23:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57628 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc0Tz-0005zA-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 17:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33150) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc0To-0005z1-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 17:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc0Tn-0006Kg-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 17:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:63457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc0Tn-0006KV-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 17:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.223.131.144]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0Lz3FM-1UOtQD2PVQ-014QEO; Mon, 13 May 2013 23:40:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:kqOh51KXhx1kvVsZFw2Tec8H1PsLyELcDuW3I2v+Wh4 TRTQuwuq7Eeht4vNCkgtIo9bu/5Bfj0hWKruxNndg2aFUeuqa+ 5XthTSM/QYy7Z2oy1z1yyGrtE5WeMKlL/xXRjY9Py2mkknlTLj 0qmbEwb+rwXmiOG424YVAGvKwEKCs2ERpXb9/XfNlvKdcbRGt1 ihPrU6vNn+75/9YqFxxig== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90728 Archived-At: Am 13.05.2013 um 23:08 schrieb gerlach: > At least in Why? Because you're not at home! The variable default-directory is = buffer-local, which means that each buffer in GNU Emacs has one such = private "personalised" variable. And they all can have different values = by reflecting some state of the buffer. (I presume there are thousands = of Gerlachs in Germany. Each one has this surname, but first names, = street names, town names, and eMail addresses can be different.) Could (getenv "HOME") be an alternative? -- Mit friedvollen Gr=FC=DFen Pete Sorry my terrible English, my native language Lisp