From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: vb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: current directory Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:36:12 -0700 Message-ID: <200610231336.12203.help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> References: <200610231024.37118.help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161635839 25955 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2006 20:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 23 22:37:13 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 1Gc6XJ-0008S3-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:36:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6XI-000662-Dx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:36:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6X0-00063f-7z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6Wy-00061H-El for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6Wx-000616-LC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.160.230.40] (helo=mout.perfora.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gc6Wu-0001w7-53; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.17.149.13] (helo=dhcp-10-64-129-2.riverstonenet.com) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrelayus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKp2t-1Gc6Wr1ZyP-0003rN; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:36:15 -0400 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:105503e63a43ed9a8b379992658ba53b 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:38219 Archived-At: On Monday 23 October 2006 12:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: vb > > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:24:36 -0700 > > Cc: don provan > > > > 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. > Ok, I stand corrected then, it's good to know there is such a feature, I'll make use of it. Let me ask you about another feature I am missing in emacs and which seems a bit more involved to implement myself: maintaining current setup over restarts. Say I quit emacs with several files open, each in its own window, at certain location in a file. Then I quit the session, do some other editing in a different directory tree, and then I come back to start emacs in the original directory. It comes up and shows me all those files in all those windows exactly the way they were when I quit the original editing session. Kind of a 'lightweight project management' feature - is it available? Guys, I really appreciate everybody's comments and replies. Sometimes when there is a newcomer bitching about the list topic the tensions get quite high - it's good to see that here we can have a dialog even though I am not quite completely charmed by emacs :-) cheers, /vb > > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs