From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: default-directory in windows Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:35:13 +0200 Message-ID: <48407311.1060805@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212183343 23298 80.91.229.12 (30 May 2008 21:35:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 21:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rahed Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 23:36:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2CGt-000884-U9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 23:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2CG8-00081F-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 17:35:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2CFr-000808-PM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 17:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2CFp-0007zw-FN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 17:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35732 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2CFp-0007zt-8K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 17:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:54367) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2CFp-0001PG-06 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 17:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:63843 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K2CFn-000218-4a; Fri, 30 May 2008 23:35:15 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080530-0, 2008-05-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1K2CFn-000218-4a. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1K2CFn-000218-4a a39a30e246eb1e4ed9f27c803b6d514f X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:54375 Archived-At: rahed wrote: > Hi, > > in emacs 22.1 I had (setq default-directory "D:\/my/default/dir/") in my > .emacs. > > This no longer works with my 22.2 - it's ignored when I run the emacs. I > had to set the running directory within my windows link to runemacs.exe. > > Now when I want to open a file with C-x C-f there's a correct default > path in a minibuffer but with backslashes as directory separators. And > that annoyes me. I just filed a bug report on the backslashes. > Though consequently tab completion switches the slashes > to forward ones. > > Does default-directory work with 22.2? Yes, but default-directory is buffer local. I just noticed that with CVS Emacs 23 I get the default-directory you expect in *Scratch* buffer, but not in the "welcome buffer". It is unclear to me why the default-directory is different in the "welcome buffer". I am not sure if this is the behaviour in Emacs 22. Could you please check?