From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp: isn't default-directory always the dir of current file??
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:38:44 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3fde486e-8b96-49d3-a69e-a727216ca5bf@k9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gogm0l$2jh3$1@colin2.muc.de
On Mar 2, 5:12 am, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> Hi, Xah!
>
> In comp.emacs Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > elisp question.
> > it seems to me, that the var default-directory is not updated when
> > using load-file.
>
> It isn't. Why should it be? default-directory is associated with the
> current _buffer_. If you use this directory as the base for a relative
> file name to do something wierd (like loading lisp code), why should that
> change default-directory?
good point.
i misunderstood default-directory's purpose.
What i sought is load-file-name or buffer-file-name.
(file-name-directory (if load-file-name load-file-name buffer-file-
name))
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-02 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 6:54 elisp: isn't default-directory always the dir of current file?? Xah Lee
2009-03-02 7:27 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 7:46 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 10:32 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2198.1235989932.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-02 20:32 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-03 16:45 ` Mike Mattie
[not found] ` <mailman.2298.1236115585.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-03 22:49 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 13:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-03-02 20:38 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2009-03-03 4:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
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