From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: "Sebastian Tennant" <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to not change the working directory when opening a file
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:16:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0801150916s110e37d7p8146af358df36990@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lk6rt5ri.fsf@moley.moleskin.org>
On Jan 15, 2008 5:25 PM, Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
> Quoth "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>:
> > (add-hook 'post-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq default-directory emacs-startup-directory)))
>
> If it works go with it. It's also a more focussed solution than:
>
> (cd (getenv "PWD"))
>
> in that it only applies to post-mode, although my 'getenv' solution is
> perhaps more flexible in that Emacs' default directory at startup will
> always be the directory you launched Emacs from, rather than the value
> of emacs-startup-directory.
>
> Just for your information, you shouldn't really quote lambda functions,
> i.e., you should remove the single quote before (lambda ...).
>
> Quoting lambda functions happens to work in Emacs Lisp but won't work in
> other Lisp dialects, so it's not a good habit to get into.
>
For for this information. I actually don't know elisp at all...
--
Francis
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-14 15:15 how to not change the working directory when opening a file Francis Moreau
2008-01-14 23:17 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-01-15 0:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-15 9:27 ` Francis Moreau
2008-01-15 15:13 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-01-15 15:53 ` Francis Moreau
2008-01-15 16:25 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-01-15 17:16 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
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2008-01-14 21:13 How " Francis Moreau
2008-01-15 16:16 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-01-16 2:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-16 6:35 ` Francis Moreau
[not found] <mailman.6126.1200343901.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-15 8:02 ` how " Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-15 9:29 ` Francis Moreau
2008-01-15 15:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-01-15 15:25 ` Francis Moreau
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