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From: Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Convenient way to set "root of my project"?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:25:46 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e60bfb0-80b8-44df-a95d-1ad8b2271722@p36g2000prp.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6047.1233126709.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Jan 28, 1:11 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Sounds similar to the recent thread "build a macro that opens a directory and
> prompts for file name" - see that for suggestions. In particular, see Emacs
> command `cd' and variable `default-directory'.

Thanks!

I had used 'cd' by hand in the past, but 'default-directory' looks
like what I want.  I'm very new to all of this, I just need to find a
way now to hook the opening of a file, detect if it matches a path
like '/a/NAME/src/.*' and set the default directory of that buffer to
'/a/NAME/src/'

Brett


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-28 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 22:13 Convenient way to set "root of my project"? Brett Hoerner
2009-01-28  7:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-28  7:49 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-01-28  7:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-01-28  9:03 ` Andreas Politz
2009-01-28 10:57 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.6052.1233129460.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-28 15:22   ` Brett Hoerner
     [not found] ` <mailman.6072.1233140265.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-28 15:24   ` Brett Hoerner
     [not found] ` <mailman.6047.1233126709.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-28 15:25   ` Brett Hoerner [this message]
2009-01-28 21:24     ` Scott Frazer
2009-01-29 17:00     ` Drew Adams

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